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Lorryia formosa (Arachnida: Acari: Tydeidae)
... 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?