Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/5


 * ... that female yellow mites (pictured) are produced from unfertilised eggs, a process called thelytoky?
 * ... that the bigheaded ant, Pheidole megacephala, protects the source of its food supply, green scale insects, by removing predatory larvae that might eat them?
 * ... that the pill bug Armadillidium vulgare can reach population densities of 10,000 per square metre?
 * ... that despite being known from many specimens, the fossil Fuxianhuia remains one of the most controversial Cambrian arthropods?
 * ... that three partial cross veins in the wings make D. appendiculata a unique fruit fly among the more than 1500 species of Drosophila?
 * ... that until 1962, a salt-water crab lived in the Texas Panhandle, 500 miles from the sea?