Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/14


 * ... that the larvae (pictured) of the common green lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea usually consume aphids, but when food is scarce they will eat each other?
 * ... that the snail Pittieria aurantiaca feeds on honeydew produced by the lantern bug Enchophora sanguinea, the first recorded trophobiotic interaction between a gastropod and an insect?
 * ... that Hemioniscus balani is called a "parasitic castrator" although its barnacle host remains a functioning male because the barnacle can no longer also function as a female?
 * ... that Callipogon relictus is the largest beetle of Russia, reaching a length of 110 mm?
 * ... that Leach's spider crab lives with the snakelocks anemone, eats the anemone's food and mucus and is protected from predators by the anemone's stings?
 * ... that mass strandings of the squat lobster Pleuroncodes planipes occur in California during El Niño years?