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Creepy Crawlies

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A few of the words

CENTIPEDE
Despite the name, no centipede species actually has exactly 100 legs, the number is always odd pairs, so 98 or 102, never 100.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PILLBUG
The pillbug is not a true insect, it's a crustacean, more closely related to crabs and shrimp than to any beetle or ant.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SPRINGTAIL
Springtails launch themselves into the air using a forked tail-like appendage called a furcula, snapping it against the ground to leap many times their own body length.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
EARWIG
The pincers at an earwig's tail end, called cerci, are used for defense and for folding its surprisingly large, fan-shaped wings neatly out of sight.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Creepy Crawlies: a free online word search

Creepy crawlies word search, playable online right now. Centipedes, slugs, and the rest of the soil's wriggling population, no sign-up needed.

About Creepy Crawlies

Turn over a single stone in the garden and a whole hidden world reveals itself, a centipede curling away from the light, a pillbug rolling tight as a marble, a pale grub bowing slowly in the dark earth. These small creatures do enormous work: aerating the soil, breaking down leaves, and feeding the robins and hedgehogs above them. They have been crawling across the planet for hundreds of millions of years, long before the first flower ever bloomed.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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