Portal:Insects/Did you know/24


 * ... that larvae of Cuban endemic firefly Alecton discoidalis (pictured) attack land snails?
 * ... that the extinct parasitoid wasp Metapelma archetypon is thought to have preyed upon wood-boring beetles?
 * ... that the extinct mason bee species Anthidium exhumatum and Anthidium scudderi are known from the Eocene Florissant Formation in Colorado?
 * ... that the extinct parasitoid wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber?
 * ... that the extinct Eocene parasitoid wasp Brevivulva electroma was named from the Latin words meaning "short amber wrapper"?