Buggy Anagrams

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How many of these buggy anagrams can you solve in 15 minutes?
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1. Noctuids and katydids clog the ________.
2. A big beetle could be a _______ budger.
3. Said one lovebug to another, "Imago, I'm your _______".
4. Should queen bees aspire to the thrones of ________?
5. A termite is an ________ of wood litter.
6. At the subsite you find the ________ termites.
7. The life cycle of aphides is distinctly ________.
8. Beware the ________ of mantises!
9. The female mantis, no longer meatless, was now ________.
10. The cockroach is the canniest of the ________ ancients. For ________:
11. It can ________ plumbic pipes.
12. The phasmid favors a ________ climate.
13. He indites on ________ and the glory that fades.
14. Millipeds had a millrace in ________. (This one is a bad pun on the answer's sound. Sorry).
15. Lindane is the bane for every _______.
16. The grasshopper ________ all ants in the petalous plants...
17. leaping from a petioled pansy with ________ leaves.

Don't feel bad if you solve very few of these. There are a lot of obscure words here! But there are some easy ones too.

ANSWERS
1. conduits 2. redbug 3. amigo 4. hornets 5. emitter
6. busiest 7. diphase 8. matiness 9. mateless 10. insectan, instance
11. upclimb 12. dampish 13. tineids 14. micellar ("my cellar". Get it? Oh, never mind...)
15. annelid 16. outleaps 17. lepidote

0 - 2 Katydid better than you!
3 - 5 Fair
6 - 9 Good job!
10 - 17 Insectile excellence!

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