Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/2


 * ... that the European great raft spider (pictured) eats small fish and tadpoles?
 * ... that Vespula flaviceps larvae are considered a delicacy in Japan?
 * ... that the newly named extinct prawn Aciculopoda is the third unambiguous fossil decapod from before the Mesozoic?
 * ... that the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae, pre-dating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon?
 * ... that with a forewing length of only 3.36 mm Microberotha is one of the smallest known beaded lacewings to have been described?
 * ... that Mary J. Rathbun described over 1000 new crustacean taxa, but never attended college, and received a Ph.D. only after she retired?