Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/8


 * ... that the woodlouse Hemilepistus reaumuri (pictured) can only survive in the desert because it looks after its young?
 * ... that adult males of the parasitic wasp Encarsia perplexa can only develop when a virgin female lays eggs in a fully developed larva of her own species?
 * ... that millipedes in the order Sphaerotheriida roll up into balls the size of a cherry, a golf ball, or even a baseball when disturbed?
 * ... that male spiders, scorpions and mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism?
 * ... that anywhere from 60 million to 1 billion monarch butterflies spend the winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico?
 * ... that the Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing, who became a strong supporter of Darwinism, was ordained by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, one of its greatest opponents?