Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/21


 * ... that a fossil of the extinct sea scorpion Eurypterus (restoration pictured) was once thought to be a catfish?
 * ... that Phaeacius, a very lazy jumping spider, waits motionless until prey walks almost into its jaws?
 * ... that Geograpsus severnsi is the first crab species known to have become extinct?
 * ... that males and females of the jumping spider Maevia inclemens were once considered different species?
 * ... that a fungal pathogen Beauveria bassiana has been released along with a parasitic wasp Tetrastichus planipennisi in the United States as a biological control agent of the emerald ash borer?
 * ... that the California spider species Pimoa cthulhu was named after H. P. Lovecraft's fictional deity Cthulhu?