Insect
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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SR
The unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

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BEE
Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

BUG
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

ANT
Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

FLY
(baseball) a hit that flies up in the air

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WORM
Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

WASP
Social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

GNAT
Any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies

MOTH
Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae

FLEA
Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

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APHIS
Type genus of the Aphididae: injurious to fruit trees and vegetables

MIDGE
Minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water

LOUSE
Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

IMAGO
An adult insect produced after metamorphosis

APHID
Any of various small plant-sucking insects

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MAYFLY
Slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days

CICADA
Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone

LOCUST
Migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae

EARWIG
Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen

BEDBUG
Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood

BEETLE
Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

MANTIS
Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer

HORNET
Large stinging paper wasp

NICEST

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CRICKET
A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs

FIREFLY
Tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots

TERMITE
Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood

HEXAPOD
An animal having six feet

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LADYBIRD
Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests

CRANEFLY
Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite

DIRTBALL
A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

HORSEFLY
Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals

CREATURE
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

MOSQUITO
Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

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ARTHROPOD
Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

TSETSEFLY
Bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.

DRAGONFLY
Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.

CENTIPEDE
Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

BUTTERFLY
Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

COCKROACH
Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

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STAGBEETLE
A kind of lamellicorn beetle; the male has branched mandibles resembling antlers

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GRASSHOPPER
Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

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CREEPYCRAWLY

INVERTEBRATE
Any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification

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PRAYINGMANTIS
The common mantis