Invertebrates Crossword

animals that don't have a backbone.
i have no body openings, no muscles, nerves or organs.
i'm well known to eat through wooden structures and dead wood.
i make distinctive call by rubbing the file of one of my wings against the scraper on the other.
i'm a small red or yellow beetle with black spots.
i'm a sea creature with hard shell, two large claws and eight legs.
invertebrates don't have a _________.
you hear hundreds of male ________ singing loudly on a summer night.
i'm an insect that has large spiky forelegs folded like hands in prayer.
i'm an insect that collects nectar & pollen and produces wax & honey.
i am a shellfish which can be eaten ; ex. casino or on half shell.
i'm a mollusk with rough irregular shells.
i have 5 pairs of legs, the first are modified as pincers.
"100 footed" as everyone says, but i don't have 100 legs.
a thousand feet ? i actually have anywhere from 40 to 400 legs.
when i feel threatened, i retreat into my shell to protect myself.
i'm an insect with long hind legs for jumping.
only the females bite.
i'm an eight-legged predatory that injects poison into their prey.
i'm a softbodied, free swimming aquatic animal with a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell.
i have 8 tentacles.
i'm a terrestrial arachnid with lobster-like pincers and a poisonus sting at the end of its jointed tail.
phylum of invertebrates that includes the sponges.
i am tube-like and usually attached to a rock or another object.
phylum consisting of ringed or segmented worms.
i am capable of carrying mass 50 times their own body weight.
i become a butterfly !
i am a blood-feeding worm.
i am snail-like, but without a shell.
i lack a respiratory system and breathe through my skin.
has 6 tentacles.
protects organs.
i like to eat clothing.
mouth part for invertebrate.
i am a lightning bug.
i'm an aquatic invertebrate that is shaped like a star.
i'm an insect distinguished by forewings typically modified into hard wing cases.
i am an insect with a long cylindrical body resembling a stick.
class of invertebrates that include snails, slugs, mussel and octopuses.
i'm well known to land on your food and feces.