Researchers were inspired by the advanced eyes of arthropods, a group that includes crustaceans, spiders and insects.

CNN: High-tech camera acts like a bug's eye

Female pseudoscorpions (who, unlike most arthropods, give birth to live young) exert quite a lot of influence over the process of reproduction.

ECONOMIST: Polyandry

These support diverse populations of tiny arthropods (insects, mites and so on).

ECONOMIST: Road kill

Over the course of three field trips, researchers unearthed 12 of these cream-coloured, leggy arthropods - a class of creatures with segmented bodies and jointed legs that includes spiders, insects and crustaceans.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Most leggy millipede rediscovered

Tardigrades are tiny but resilient arthropods.

ECONOMIST: An old thought experiment may soon be realised

Ms Dean and Dr Siva-Jothy were testing the idea that fine body hairs (known, technically, as vellus and terminal hairs) are there to alert their owner to creepy crawlies such as bed bugs, which might be intent on biting them, and that the hair may also get in the way of such arthropods' activities, giving the owner more time to react before he is bitten.

ECONOMIST: Body hair