Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/13

.. that Milton Levine founded Uncle Milton's Toys, best known for its ant farm, with ants from the species Pogonomyrmex californicus (pictured)?
... that, in female bedbugs, the spermalege reduces the wounding costs caused by a male's needle-like penis?
... that Acromis spinifex is one of the few tortoise beetles that shows maternal care of its young?
... that the population density of Moroccan locust nymphs can reach several thousand individuals per square metre (11 sq ft)?
... that the beetle Caryobruchus gleditsiae is named after the legume Gleditsia triacanthos, although it lives exclusively on palms?
... that picnic beetles are attracted to beer?