According to the Jiangsu public news channel "News 360", the research team of the Nanjing Institute of Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences first found after studying the insect specimens in 27 pieces of amber that more than 100 million years ago, a pollinator called lisboth not only contributed greatly to the construction of the ecosystem at that time, but also camouflaged. The results of this research were published today in nature communications, a sub-publication of the British journal Nature.
The 27 amber specimens are from the 160 million and 125 million years old strata in northeast China, and Myanmar 100 million years ago. It was in Burmese amber that researchers found the butterfly, and the eye spots on its wings resemble the eyes of large animals and play a defensive role. Different species of lily clams have different lengths and fit with different plant flower tubes, which were crucial to plant pollination and ecosystem formation at that time.
Along with the diversification of pollination forms, the lily has also evolved a unique chemical communication mechanism, and the team first found that the lizzle 100 million years ago had the same antennae as the "antenna" and was specially used for remote "courtship".
Wang Bo, a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that this kind of tentacle is only found in male butterflies. Males use ctenophoric antennae to search for information emitted by females in the rainforest for courtship behavior.
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