Description

Small insect, lives in colonies underground.
Small flying insect that can sting, carries pollen
An insect who has two front wings that are hard and protect the insect.
Has wings with colors and designs, eats nectar.
Kills cicadas
Males make a loud shrill droning noise by vibrating two membranes on its abdomen.
a marine bivalve mollusk with shells of equal size
a hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas
Found in the ocean, has two pinchers.
Small insect that hops, it chirps at night.
has slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of cerci resembling forceps at the end of the body
breathe through their tube feet
Skeleton on the outside of an organism
Bites dogs and makes them itch
Small flying insect
Lives in the grass, hops, and can fly.
a crab with a soft asymmetrical abdomen that lives in a castoff mollusk shell for protection.
Aggressive insect who's hive looks like its made of paper.
Animals that do not have bones or internal skeletons.
Small insect that is red and that has dots over it, it looks like a half circle.
Lives in ocean, has five pairs of arms and first set in pincers.
Soft bodied invertebrates with a thick muscular foot for movement.
the periodic shedding of an old exoskeleton
An insect that drinks blood and carries malaria.
nocturnal insect related to the butterflies, and wings that fold flat when resting.
Long slender body, hands look like they are praying
a crab that lives on or burrows in sand
a sedentary marine coelenterate with a columnar body that bears a ring of stinging tentacles around the mouth.
an echinoderm that has a thick, wormlike body with tentacles around the mouth. They typically have rows of tube feet along the body and breathe by means of a respiratory tree.
long tube-like body with many sections
A mollusk with a single spiral shell into which the whole body can be withdrawn.
Has eight legs, makes a web
simplest invertebrate
Found in ocean, has ten arms, can change color.
Found in Ocean, shaped like star.
A bug that smells
Eats and lives in wood.
An aggressive insect that can sting you many times.
Small sea creature eaten by people.
A bug that looks like a stick.

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