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 * ... that a young Lernaeocera branchialis is an ectoparasitic crustacean on the gills of a flounder or lumpsucker, and it moves on to cod or related fishes after it has matured and mated (infested gills of a whiting pictured)?
 * ... that the black-margined loosestrife beetle was introduced to North America for biological pest control against the invasive purple loosestrife?
 * ... that the type specimen of the extinct whip scorpion Graeophonus carbonarius was originally identified as a species of dragonfly?
 * ... that the coral reef crab Zosimus aeneus contains deadly poisonous neurotoxins?
 * ... that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly Pintomyia falcaorum is known only from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola?
 * ... that although true bugs eat aphids, they help the aphids by eating another predator, young lacewings?