ArticleCommunications biology2019
Direct evidence for eudicot pollen-feeding in a Cretaceous stinging wasp (Angiospermae; Hymenoptera, Aculeata) preserved in Burmese amber.
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- Revisiting early angiosperm pollination: a reassessment of Angimordella beetle and co-occurring thrips from mid-Cretaceous amber.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Diverse Mesozoic thrips carrying pollen during the gymnosperm-to-angiosperm plant-host ecological shift.iScience · 2025Article
- The angiosperm radiation played a dual role in the diversification of insects and insect pollinators.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Bee pollination services and the burden of biogeography.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Necrophagy by insects in Oculudentavis and other lizard body fossils preserved in Cretaceous amber.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Unparalleled details of soft tissues in a Cretaceous ant.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- A new marsh beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Scirtidae).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The earliest beetle with mouthparts specialized for feeding on nectar is a parasitoid of mid-Cretaceous Hymenoptera.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous.iScience · 2020Article
- 100 Ma sweat bee nests: Early and rapid co-diversification of crown bees and flowering plants.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Angiosperms and their insect pollinators form a foundational symbiosis, evidence for which from the Cretaceous is mostly indirect, based on fossils of insect taxa that today are anthophilous, and of fossil insects and flowers that have apparent anthophilous and entomophilous specializations, respectively. We present exceptional direct evidence preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, 100 mya, for feeding on pollen in the eudicot genus
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