| LEPIDOPTERA | An order of insects including the butterflies and moths (11) |
| DIPTERA | Order of insects including flies and mosquitoes, meaning: 'two-winged' (7) |
| APHIS | Genus of insects including the blackfly (5) |
| BEETLES | Coleoptera insects including the boll weevil, whirligig and longhorn species |
| CATERPILLAR | The wormlike larva of butterflies and moths (11) |
| HYMENOPTERA | Order of insects that includes the ants, bees and wasps (11) |
| LEPIDOPTERIST | Person who specialises in the study and collection of butterflies and moths (13) |
| CATERPILLARS | The worm-like larvae of butterflies and moths (12) |
| ISOPTERA | An order of insects having the two pairs of wings (8) |
| DIPTERAN | Any member of an order of insects with two wings, the so-called 'true flies' (8) |
| THYSANOPTERA | An order of insects that includes the thrips |
| LEPIDOPTEROUS | Like butterflies and moths |
| LEPIDOPTERANS | Butterflies and moths (13) |
| YELLOW | In the middle of the visible spectrum and complementary of blue, the colour of brimstone butterflies and buttercups (6) |
| TWILIGHT | Time around dawn or dusk when crepuscular animals, birds and insects, including barn owls, foxes, hawk moths, nightjars, pipistrelles and tawnies, are most active (8) |
| BEE | Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species. |
| COMMAS | Take a couple of breaths in the passage - it could be the butterflies? (6) |
| STROKE | Small heads on termites, rhagoletis, obereas, katydid, earwigs and one of the butterflies? (6) |
| ODONATA | Order of insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies (7) |
| IVY | Providing nectar for bees and butterflies and a bounty of winter berries for blackbirds, thrushes, redwings and wood pigeons, the evergreen vine Hedera helix (3) |
