| ODONATA | Order of insects which includes dragonflies (7) |
| MARSH | Paludal habitat whose water-loving flora and fauna includes dragonflies, flag irises, fritillaries, glasswort, harriers, kingcups, mallow, orchids, reeds, rushes, sedges and violets (5) |
| ORTHOPTERA | Members of a large order of insects which includes grasshoppers and locusts (10) |
| COLEOPTERA | Order of insects which includes beetles and weevils (10) |
| HYMENOPTERA | Order of insects which includes bees and wasps (11) |
| DIPTERA | Order of insects with one pair of wings (7) |
| LOCUSTS | Tropical insects which travel in a vast swarm, stripping large areas of vegetation (7) |
| TERMITE | Ant-like insect which destroys timber (7) |
| MARBLES | Bumblebees, cat's eyes, comets, dragonflies, fairies, glitterbombs, soap bubbles ... glass or agate "taws" played in a game of the same name (7) |
| DARTERS | Dragonflies known in North America as meadowhawks or skimmers; tropical snakebirds; a name for archerfishes or perches; people or things that dash or flit; or, players of the game "arrows" (7) |
| AESCHNA | Dragonflies chase around bottom of garden area |
| INSECTS | Ladybugs, dragonflies and ants (7) |
| HAWKERS | Dragonflies in the family Aeshnidae (7) |
| DARNERS | Common Green ___ (Migratory dragonflies found in Canada) |
| FLIES | Insects which have a single pair of transparent wings (5) |
| LEPIDOPTERA | Order of insects that includes moths and butterflies (11) |
| ISOPTERA | An order of insects having two pairs of wings (8) |
| THYSANOPTERA | An order of insects that includes the thrips |
| ANTS | Insects which have infested this puzzle's theme entries |
| LICE | Insects which can infest the hair and skin (4) |
