Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/1

... that symbiotic moss animals live on setae on the antennae, mouthparts and legs of the crab Goneplax rhomboides (pictured)?
... that millipedes in the genus Desmoxytes give off an almond-like smell as they produce hydrogen cyanide to ward off predators?
... that the extinct arachnid Attercopus was once considered as the world's oldest spider?
... that the extinct sandfly species Lutzomyia adiketis is host to the Paleoleishmania species P. neotropicum?
... that all species of the fruit fly genus Zaprionus have the same characteristic white stripes over the head and thorax?
... that the invasive crayfish Orconectes immunis can outcompete the earlier invader O. limosus?