Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/14

... that the larvae (pictured) of the common green lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea usually consume aphids, but when food is scarce they will eat each other?
... that the snail Pittieria aurantiaca feeds on honeydew produced by the lantern bug Enchophora sanguinea, the first recorded trophobiotic interaction between a gastropod and an insect?
... that Hemioniscus balani is called a "parasitic castrator" although its barnacle host remains a functioning male because the barnacle can no longer also function as a female?
... that Callipogon relictus is the largest beetle of Russia, reaching a length of 110 mm (4.3 in)?
... that Leach's spider crab lives with the snakelocks anemone, eats the anemone's food and mucus and is protected from predators by the anemone's stings?
... that mass strandings of the
Pleuroncodes planipes occur in California during El Niño years
?