Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/23


 * ... that June mating displays of Photinus carolinus (pictured) create moving bands of light and darkness that draw crowds one firefly scientist calls "obscene"?
 * ... that the wasp Dinocampus coccinellae can turn a ladybird into a "zombie bodyguard"?
 * ... that the New Zealand lobster was incorporated into the country's Quota Management System after a parliamentary corruption scandal?
 * ... that the moose botfly Cephenemyia ulrichii shoots its larvae into people's eyes, perhaps because human eyes and moose nostrils both face forward?
 * ... that, during the breeding season, the male blueband hermit crab carries the female around for up to a day?
 * ... that despite writing many scientific papers at Yale University and having the time limit waived, the carcinologist Martin Burkenroad never submitted a dissertation?