Portal:Insects/Did you know/23


 * ... that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly Pintomyia falcaorum is known only from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola?
 * ... that although true bugs eat aphids, they help the aphids by eating another predator, young lacewings?
 * ... that the ground beetle, Lebia grandis, can eat about 23 eggs or three larvae of the Colorado potato beetle every day?
 * ... that the weevil Hylobius transversovittatus has been introduced into the United States and Canada to help control the invasive wetland plant Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)?
 * ... that the larva of the Texas beetle, Brachypsectra fulva, can live for over two years without feeding?