Buggy Business

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Get up close with the insect world in this creepy-crawly word search. These ten bugs might be tiny, but they play a huge role in ecosystems everywhere, from pollinating flowers to keeping other pests in check.

Words in This Puzzle

Ant

Small, highly social insects that live in large colonies and can carry many times their own body weight.

Bee

Flying insects known for producing honey and pollinating roughly a third of the food we eat.

Wasp

A relative of bees and ants, many species of which build papery nests and can sting repeatedly.

Moth

A mostly nocturnal relative of the butterfly, often attracted to bright lights at night.

Beetle

The largest group of insects on Earth, with a hard protective pair of wings called elytra.

Cricket

An insect known for the chirping sound males make by rubbing their wings together.

Ladybug

A small, round beetle with spotted wings that farmers value for eating garden pests like aphids.

Mosquito

A small flying insect whose females feed on blood to nourish their eggs, often leaving an itchy bite.

Dragonfly

An ancient predatory insect with two pairs of wings that can hover and fly in every direction, even backward.

Grasshopper

A jumping insect with powerful hind legs, capable of leaping many times its own body length.

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