#arthropods — Public Fediverse posts

📖 Further reading: The study underlines the need to re-examine the #paleoecology of these fascinating #arthropods and that additional discoveries like Polonolimulus may led to further revisions in our understanding of the #habitat and early #diversification of this group. Full paper can be found here in #OpenAccess for everyone to read: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20950 #fossils #paleobiology #paleontology #evolution

Here's a head scratcher. I have this unidentified beetle that seems to closely resemble some Vexing Rove Beetles (Atheta sp.)

It really looks to me to be eating this leaf. There was a similar track in the same leaf with two of them in it. I couldn't get my camera in close enough to get pictures though. The problem is, I have never heard of rove beetles being herbivores. What gives? Are they eating mold?

#Insects #Beetles #Entomology #Colombia #Arthropods #Herbivory #InsectInteraction