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Hemilepistus reaumuri (Crustacea: Isopoda: Agnaridae)
... that the
woodlouse
Hemilepistus reaumuri
(pictured)
can only survive in the
desert
because it
looks after its young
?
... that adult males of the
parasitic
wasp
Encarsia perplexa
can only develop when a
virgin
female lays eggs in a fully developed larva of her own species?
... that
millipedes
in the
order
Sphaerotheriida
roll up into balls the size of a
cherry
, a
golf ball
, or even a
baseball
when disturbed?
... that male
spiders
,
scorpions
and
mantids
have special strategies to avoid
sexual cannibalism
?
... that anywhere from 60 million to 1 billion
monarch butterflies
spend the winter at the
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
in central
Mexico
?
... that the Reverend
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
, who became a strong supporter of
Darwinism
, was ordained by
Samuel Wilberforce
,
Bishop of Oxford
, one of its greatest opponents?