So Many Shot Hole Borers: New Research Charts Four Nearly Identical Species.

When an insect spends most of its life in total darkness, it doesn’t much matter what color it is. So, it comes as no surprise that so many species of bark and ambrosia beetles maintain the same brown hue as they slowly tunnel through wood and feed on a fungus that they carry with them into their trees. This similarity of appearance has been taken to an extreme in what has turned out to be a cryptic species complex. What was once referred to as the “tea shot hole borer” is actually four distinct species who all look almost exactly the same.

https://entomologytoday.org/2019/01/07/so-many-shot-hole-borers-new-research-charts-four-nearly-identical-species/

Posted on 08 de janeiro de 2019, 02:05 AM by biohexx1 biohexx1

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