Beetles
Spiders
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In reality, only a tiny fraction of wasps and flies breed that way, but in fiction it's often associated with beetles or spiders.
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Big Creepy-Crawlies: Many enemies, including bees, centipedes, giant ladybugs, climbing beetles, leeches, and something resembling giant spiders.
Source: Video Game / Xargon -
You still shoot from the bottom of the screen at a field of mushrooms, but instead of battling just the original four arthropods, you now face a deadlier variety of enemy bugs: millipedes, spiders, bees, beetles, earwigs, inchworms, dragonflies, and mosquitoes.
Source: Video Game / Millipede
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