Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/3


 * ... that a Halloween hermit crab (pictured) may attack a snail in order to take its shell?
 * ... that Leptotrombidium is a genus of harvest mites that are able to infect humans with scrub typhus (Orientia tsutsugamushi infection) through their bite?
 * ... that Petalura hesperia dragonflies lay their eggs along stream margins because their larvae are semi-aquatic?
 * ... that the five-eyed predator Alalcomenaeus is one of the most common fossils in the Cambrian Burgess shale?
 * ... that the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age?
 * ... that the extinct crab Metacarcinus starri from Washington state is related to the graceful rock crab?