Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/26


 * ... that fossils of extinct giant cicadas (pictured) were once misidentified as the oldest known butterflies?
 * ... that some species of the stick insect genus Timema have not had sex for over a million years?
 * ... that scientists first discovered the biological screw joint in the Papuan weevil Trigonopterus oblongus?
 * ... that Calcinus tubularis is one of only two known species of hermit crab whose males and females inhabit different types of shell?
 * ... that the oldest known member of the mayfly family Neoephemeridae is the Eocene species Neoephemera antiqua?
 * ... that Sphecius grandis, the Western cicada killer wasp, paralyzes cicadas for its offspring to eat after hatching?