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Across

2 Bed bugs come out at night when the lure of Carbon dioxide and our ______ is too much to handle

4 Class of animals to which bed bugs belong

5 Eggs, nymphs, ______

6 Bed bugs can survive within very large ______ ranges

9 Feed at night

10 Insects do not breathe through their mouths. They inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide via ______ on their sides called spiracles in their exoskeleto­ns

14 Can survive up to 5 months without ______

15 Bed bugs are small, ______, reddish-brown insects that grow to about 5 mm in length.

18 Bed bugs are very small (4-5 mm long) but still ______ to the naked eye

20 Can ingest seven times their _______ in blood

21 Bed bugs are insects and therefore have ______ legs

22 A ______ bed bug can produce two to three eggs daily

Down 1 Primary host

2 Bed bugs mostly stay ______ during the day

3 ______ live off the host and may or may not harm the host

4 Bed bugs have five ______ nymph life stages and a final sexually mature adult stage

7 External skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body

8 Bed bugs feed exclusivel­y on ______

10 Insect bodies have three parts, the thorax, abdomen and ______

11 The ______ name for bed bugs is Cimex lectulariu­s

12 Bed bug ______ has anti-clotting agents and anaestheti­c in it

13 Bed bugs ______ the area around their bites

16 Insects have two antennae

17 Bed bugs can be found anywhere on ______ that has been inhabited by humans

19 Bed bugs shed their ______ through ecdysis at each stage of the lifecycle

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