Portal:Insects/Did you know/35


 * ... that the male tropical rockmaster can be distinguished from the male sapphire rockmaster by the size of the blue spots on the underside of its abdomen?
 * ... that bellflower resin bees were among the first insects noted to use synthetic materials in manufacturing nests?
 * ... that the spermatophore of Zorotypus impolitus, one of the smallest in the insect world, contains a single giant sperm cell that is almost as long as the insect itself?
 * ... that the Australian Jumper Ant Myrmecia nigrocincta is an accomplished jumper with leaps ranging from 3 to 4 in?
 * ... that the parasitoid wasp Kollasmosoma sentum can deposit its egg within the abdomen of an ant in as little as 0.052 seconds?