#myrtaceae — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #myrtaceae, aggregated by home.social.
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Extremely well-preserved #fossil #sawfly sheds new light on co-#evolution of #insects and toxic plants https://phys.org/news/2024-10-extremely-fossil-sawfly-evolution-insects.html paper by Juanita Rodriguez et al.: https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12653
"They eat the leaves of #Myrtaceae—woody #plants that include eucalypts—because they have mouthparts with which they can separate toxic oils or a chemical detoxification system inside their gut. This enables the #larvae, sometimes called spitfires, to use the oils as a defensive weapon."
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Extremely well-preserved #fossil #sawfly sheds new light on co-#evolution of #insects and toxic plants https://phys.org/news/2024-10-extremely-fossil-sawfly-evolution-insects.html paper by Juanita Rodriguez et al.: https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12653
"They eat the leaves of #Myrtaceae—woody #plants that include eucalypts—because they have mouthparts with which they can separate toxic oils or a chemical detoxification system inside their gut. This enables the #larvae, sometimes called spitfires, to use the oils as a defensive weapon."
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Myrtaceae in the Amazon region are often difficult to identify to species. This small tree from the dune forests of the Amazon coast is possibly Eugenia protenta McVaugh. Quite important to document these collections in herbaria … If you'd like to have a look, our collection (HBRA) publishes data and photos of herbarium sheets on platforms like SpeciesLink : https://specieslink.net/search/
#Amazonas #forest #Myrtaceae #dunes #herbarium #HBRA #speciesLink #UFPA #IECOS -
Myrtaceae in the Amazon region are often difficult to identify to species. This small tree from the dune forests of the Amazon coast is possibly Eugenia protenta McVaugh. Quite important to document these collections in herbaria … If you'd like to have a look, our collection (HBRA) publishes data and photos of herbarium sheets on platforms like SpeciesLink : https://specieslink.net/search/
#Amazonas #forest #Myrtaceae #dunes #herbarium #HBRA #speciesLink #UFPA #IECOS