Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/5

... that female yellow mites (pictured) are produced from unfertilised eggs, a process called thelytoky?
... that the bigheaded ant, Pheidole megacephala, protects the source of its food supply, green scale insects, by removing predatory larvae that might eat them?
... that the pill bug Armadillidium vulgare can reach population densities of 10,000 per square metre?
... that despite being known from many specimens, the fossil Fuxianhuia remains one of the most controversial Cambrian arthropods?
... that three partial cross veins in the wings make D. appendiculata a unique fruit fly among the more than 1500 species of Drosophila?
... that until 1962, a salt-water crab lived in the Texas Panhandle, 500 miles from the sea?