- ... that the beetle Caryobruchus gleditsiae is named after the legume Gleditsia triacanthos, although it lives exclusively on palms?
- ... that the larvae of the common green lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea usually consume aphids, but when food is scarce they will eat each other?
- ... that the "black-margined loosestrife beetle", Galerucella calmariensis, was introduced to North America for biological pest control against the invasive Lythrum salicaria?
- ... that Edward L. Kessel assembled the world's most comprehensive collection of Platypezidae flat-footed flies?
- ... that in the north, the North American paper wasp Polistes annularis has rust-red markings on a predominantly black thorax, but in the south, the thorax is mostly rust-red with black markings?