Portal:Insects/Did you know/34

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  • ... that species in the fossil ant genus Myrmeciites are named for Hercules, Goliath, and a river?
  • ... that Euploea alcathoe, the common crow butterfly, may pass through several generations in a year?
  • ... that the female sand wasp Ammophila sabulosa digs burrows in sandy ground, provisioning each burrow with a food supply of paralysed caterpillars, always laying one egg on the first caterpillar?
  • ... that larvae of the toadfly make their way through the nostrils of the common toad and eat its flesh?
  • ... that the rice stink bug, a major pest of rice kernels, can possibly be ignored when found on standing maize?