Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/22

... that some species of giant stink bugs (pictured) are edible?
... that the extinct giant ant genus Formicium is known only from forewings found in Dorset and Tennessee?
... that a new species of decim periodical cicada was discovered by studying the songs of Brood XIX, now re-emerging in 2011 after 13 years underground?
... that the Australian jumping spider Portia fimbriata plays a deadly game of hide-and-seek with its favourite prey, Jacksonoides queenlandicus, another jumping spider?
... that the fossil sawfly species Eriocampa tulameenensis was found along the Canadian Pacific rail line near Princeton, British Columbia?
... that Aenigmastacus, a fossil crayfish from Canada, belongs to a family only otherwise known from the Southern Hemisphere?