The leaf miners have been identified as the oldest insect plague in Earth’s history

The museum, including researchers from the Museum Furr Network Berlin (MFN), described palionologists in the plants, along with the fossil -based egg deposits, as well as the oldest insect larvae feeding tunnels inside the leaves. The frequency of the use of leaves in the fossil plants is amazing and can be described as the oldest insects in the history of the earth.

The results, which are placed in the MFN reservoir, show that this very special behavior of insect larvae was already 295 million years ago, which was about 40 40 million years ago. It once again indicates the relevance of the combination of natural history.

Whether you are a farmer, a gardener or a walker, you probably see the complex food tunnels made by the larvae inside the leaf, also known as the leaf ears. There are many benefits to living inside the plant tissue, such as protection from predators, dehydration, and environmental harmful effects. In addition, Larva, like a pig in Kaloor, has almost unbearable food.

Nowadays, the leaves of the leaves are specially manufactured by insects such as burning, deprivals, cans and butterflies, which undergo a complete change (metamorphosis) and therefore it is called holomotabolis insects. They are extremely adaptable and, during evolution, have developed a thin, megot -like larvae without body supplement that is better adapted to life within the tissue of the plant.

Until now, it was unclear when this successful strategy came out in insects. To this day, the oldest reliable evidence of leaf mines comes from the TRYSOC era, early Mesozhoc.

Using the latest research methods, a team of scientists from museums of the natural history of Champions, Berlin, Munster and Osnabrik, Toub Bergakadmi Ferberg and Martin Luther University Halvatinberg have now been able to prove that Leaf’s mines are more than 40 million years ago. This dissertation has appeared in the journal Scientific Reports.

Researchers had access to a widely pelobotinical reservoir of natural history museums at Berlin, Selengen and Freberg University of Mining and Technology, which proved to be a realistic treasury for science: These collections contain almostly as unusually securely reserved. 295 million -year -old reservoirs from Pirman era in a small coal mining area in Crook, Toria (Germany).

The focus of the safe plants unclear the conclusion that the larvae of insects made a safe feeding tunnel inside the leaves. In addition, it was also possible to identify the egg deposits associated with the feeding tunnels, which in some cases also contain the remains of insect eggs.

The frequency of these stupids is noteworthy: Overall, more than 80 % of the leaves coming from the crocke were affected by the ears of the leaves, which can be rightly described as the oldest insects in the history of the earth. Autonia plants were widely affected in the Krak area. However, this trend came at a time of global change, during which the tropical climate environmental system gradually dried up.