| HONEYBEES | Insects studied in melittology (9) |
| HONEY | Substance or food produced by the insects studied in melittology (5) |
| SCOUT | In apiculture and melittology, a worker honeybee responsible for finding a site for a swarm to settle (5) |
| MOTHS | Insects studied in lepidopterology with butterflies (5) |
| ANTS | Insects studied in myrmecology that constitute the majority of the diet of green woodpeckers (4) |
| BUTTERFLY | An insect studied in lepidopterology (9) |
| BEETLE | Insect studied in coleopterology such as a ladybird or may bug; a traditional wooden potato masher; or, the model of the car "Herbie" (6) |
| BEES | Insects studied by Karl von Frisch, the Austrian ethologist who first who translated the meaning of the waggle dance (4) |
| ANT | Insect studied by a myrmecologist |
| EVOLUTION | Development and change studied in phylogeny and discussed in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species or Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens (9) |
| CLOCKWORK | Inner workings of a device studied in horology; or, a novel by Philip Pullman (9) |
| MUSHROOMS | Field, wood, chestnut, morel, penny bun, chanterelle... fruiting bodies or fungi sometimes forming fairy rings and studied in mycology (9) |
| DIETETICS | Food studied in this parliament, and standards, hard to ignore (9) |
| DISSECTED | Studied in detail |
| POREDOVER | Studied in detail |
| PLACENAME | Something studied in toponymy |
| BATS | Implements used in the sport described in Henry Newbolt's poem Vitai Lampada ; or, flying mammals studied in chiropterology, such as pipistrelles (4) |
| BELLS | Used in change-ringing and studied in campanology, instruments once used in large houses to communicate with household staff (5) |
| BLACKBERRY | Studied in batology and picked in a popular summer/autumn pastime, bramble fruit used in English country recipes from puddings, pies and preserves to liqueurs and vinegars (10) |
| ANIMALS | Studied in zoology and ethology, the approximately 8.7 million species of living organisms in a biological kingdom that includes mammals, amphibians and insects (7) |
