Sentences with phrase «moth mouthparts»

There are other possibilities, too, for imagining ancient moth mouthparts, he cautions.

The notion that the moth mouthparts arose before a big floral takeover sounds plausible to paleoecologist Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Drinking - straw mouthparts had evolved in at least three other big insect groups (dipteran flies, lacewings and scorpionflies) somewhat before the full floral evolutionary extravaganza.

Not exact matches

Other work on how this proboscis evolved proposes that early moths started with chewing mouthparts and ate spores and pollen, says Harald W. Krenn of the University of Vienna.

Comparing the ridges and inner structure of the scales with those from modern insects suggests the fossils came from the evolutionary branch of insects that today gives us moths and butterflies with nectar - sipping mouthparts.

Female yucca moths carry pollen from flower to flower in tentacle - like mouthparts — which no other insects possess — and apply pollen by actively packing into the stigma of a yucca flower.