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Bugs & Insects Word Searches

Puzzles for the small creatures in the garden and under the porch light: Insects and their life cycles, Butterflies from the monarch to the morpho, Bees and their hives, Ants and their colonies, Ladybugs and the Beetles.

Not every bug is a true bug. To a biologist, bugs are one order of insects, the Hemiptera, with mouths shaped for piercing and sucking, such as aphids, stink bugs and cicadas. A ladybug is a beetle, and beetles are the largest order of all: about 400,000 species have been named, close to a quarter of every animal known.

Printable Bugs & Insects Word Searches

Bugs & Insects Word Search Puzzles

Every puzzle prints in three levels: easy hides 5 words in a 10 by 10 grid, reading only across and down; medium hides 15 in a 12 by 12 grid; hard hides up to 23 in a 15 by 15 grid. Each print is a fresh draw from the topic's word list, and every sheet comes with an answer key. The same puzzles play online, on your own or against a friend in real time.