Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/13


 * .. that Milton Levine founded Uncle Milton's Toys, best known for its ant farm, with ants from the species Pogonomyrmex californicus (pictured)?
 * ... that, in female bedbugs, the spermalege reduces the wounding costs caused by a male's needle-like penis?
 * ... that Acromis spinifex is one of the few tortoise beetles that shows maternal care of its young?
 * ... that the population density of Moroccan locust nymphs can reach several thousand individuals per square metre (11 sq ft)?
 * ... that the beetle Caryobruchus gleditsiae is named after the legume Gleditsia triacanthos, although it lives exclusively on palms?
 * ... that picnic beetles are attracted to beer?