Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/8

... that the woodlouse Hemilepistus reaumuri (pictured) can only survive in the desert because it looks after its young?
... that adult males of the parasitic wasp Encarsia perplexa can only develop when a virgin female lays eggs in a fully developed larva of her own species?
... that millipedes in the order Sphaerotheriida roll up into balls the size of a cherry, a golf ball, or even a baseball when disturbed?
... that male spiders, scorpions and mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism?
... that anywhere from 60 million to 1 billion monarch butterflies spend the winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico?
... that the Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing, who became a strong supporter of Darwinism, was ordained by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, one of its greatest opponents?