Hard insects word search
Praying mantis, lacewing and metamorphosis: a bug grid for older children who want the proper names. Twenty-eight words hide in every direction, backwards and diagonal included.
- Abdomen
- Aphid
- Blowfly
- Chrysalis
- Cicada
- Cockroach
- Cocoon
- Compound eye
- Damselfly
- Dung beetle
- Earwig
- Exoskeleton
- Firefly
- Honeybee
- Hornet
- Hoverfly
- Lacewing
- Locust
- Mayfly
- Metamorphosis
- Pollinate
- Praying mantis
- Pupa
- Silverfish
- Stag beetle
- Termite
- Thorax
- Weevil
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionInsects, extra hard
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| E | C | G | Y | T | E | R | M | I | T | E | A | R | W | I | G | H | O |
| S | O | E | L | T | E | E | B | G | A | T | S | I | N | H | V | E | T |
| T | M | Y | F | P | D | A | M | S | E | L | F | L | Y | X | R | C | E |
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| L | O | F | R | S | S | R | T | X | P | E | H | F | E | O | C | R | E |
| O | U | Y | I | T | I | A | A | T | H | O | R | A | X | A | F | Y | K |
| C | N | A | F | E | B | P | M | Y | V | I | P | N | O | A | D | S | S |
| U | D | M | H | D | L | A | O | E | I | H | I | R | L | N | U | A | O |
| S | E | A | O | I | T | O | R | L | I | N | K | L | T | M | N | L | X |
| T | Y | M | V | S | F | F | P | D | L | C | G | B | L | E | G | I | E |
| T | E | E | H | E | L | C | H | C | O | I | H | M | O | G | B | S | A |
| N | E | L | M | Y | O | I | O | C | A | D | N | R | A | S | E | P | M |
| W | A | N | N | H | E | C | S | P | T | I | I | A | S | N | E | L | L |
| T | E | T | R | T | O | A | I | E | E | D | W | X | T | A | T | L | V |
| F | T | E | U | O | A | D | S | T | R | G | E | U | F | E | L | I | H |
| E | L | N | N | M | H | A | G | N | I | W | E | C | A | L | E | C | S |
| P | U | P | A | A | S | I | L | V | E | R | F | I | S | H | I | L | A |
Find these words
- Abdomen
- Aphid
- Blowfly
- Chrysalis
- Cicada
- Cockroach
- Cocoon
- Compound eye
- Damselfly
- Dung beetle
- Earwig
- Exoskeleton
- Firefly
- Honeybee
- Hornet
- Hoverfly
- Lacewing
- Locust
- Mayfly
- Metamorphosis
- Pollinate
- Praying mantis
- Pupa
- Silverfish
- Stag beetle
- Termite
- Thorax
- Weevil
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About this word search
Periodical Cicadas spend thirteen or seventeen years underground before they come out by the millions in parts of the eastern United States. A Dung beetle, meanwhile, can roll a ball of dung many times its own weight.
Metamorphosis, Exoskeleton and Compound eye are the big words here, and in this eighteen by eighteen grid they are also the easiest to find. Words can run in every direction, backwards too. Short ones like Pupa and Aphid take more patience.
For a science follow-up, ask older students why a butterfly needs a Chrysalis and a grasshopper does not. Thorax and Abdomen are worth a quick sketch as well, since many kids know both words but not where one part ends and the other begins.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or a family vacation. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in French too
The same theme also exists in French and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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