Body hidden. By bits of silk. In a shell. Snails. More than six legs. With hole. Only top covered ... composed of tiny b
Vertebrate (mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile or fish
Bug n o i t a c i f i t Iden t r a h C
Animal
Rotifer
Tardigrade
Microscopic
Invertebrate (everything else)
Within the plant tissue Water
Land
Leaf mine
Sea With wings
Body not encased
No visible wings Freshwater
Insect
With legs (Arthropod) Six Legs
No legs Body in Shell
More than six legs Body not hidden
Eight walking legs (maybe with two shorter limbs in front)
Body not segmented
Body of numerous ring-like segments
Abdomen distinct from thorax
In a shell By bits of silk
Worms
Snail eggs
Self made case holes at end
Caddisfly larva
Limpet
Crayfish
More than eight legs
Clam
With hole Only top covered Short body only two or three times longer than wide
Moth larva Lacewing larva
Woodlouse
Fast running legs sticking out at sides usually rusty orange/ brown
Woodlouse
No legs or antennae Contains egg cluster Spider
Sawfly
Fly larvae Encrustation composed of tiny boxes fused together
Parasitic wasp
Wormlike
Front legs with pincers
Bryozoa Very flat and tough
Slow moving very short legs, two pairs per segment
Crustacea
Mussel
Complete silk cocoon Contains pupa
Front legs without pincers Elongated body at least six times longer than wide
Mite
Swimming limbs
Head thorax and abdomen fused
Harvestman
Eight walking legs
Shell a simple cap
Snails
Insect larva
Two folded together
Not a coiled shell
Short legs or tiny
All legs much longer than body
Six walking legs
Slugs
Abdomen distinct from thorax Spider
Jelly with round eggs
Body hidden Coiled shell
More walking legs
In dead wood
Stem
Gall
Sucker at end
Tapered at end
Leech
Worm
Hydra Sponge
Tick Not flat, soft body
Mite Centipede
Millipede
False scorpion
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