Portal:Insects/Did you know/8


 * ... that the golden-green carpenter bee defends its nesting burrow by blocking the entrance with its abdomen?
 * ... that caterpillars of the oak leafroller and oak leaftier moths are major defoliators of oak trees, with leafroller timber losses in Pennsylvania of over $100,000,000 in the early 1970s?
 * ... that Nanoraphidia electroburmica, known from a fossil in amber, is the smallest known snakefly species, living or extinct?
 * ... that researchers finally collected a larva and an adult female Tonyosynthemis ofarrelli which match an earlier male specimen?
 * ... that the common spangle gall on the leaves of pedunculate oak trees is produced by the gall wasp Neurotus quercus-baccarum?