Tag Archive for 'Gnat'

Robsonomyia baltica. Image credit: Pełczyńska et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-59448-y.

40-Million-Year-Old Baltic Amber Provides First Fossil Record of Predatory Fungus Gnats

Sep 24, 2024 by News Staff

Until now, the fungus gnat genus Robsonomyia was represented by two living species: Robsonomyia reducta from North America and Robsonomyia sciaraeformis...

Triassic terrestrial larva Protoanisolarva juarezi. Scale bars - 1 mm in (A), 0.05 mm in (C-E, G), 0.1 mm in (F). Image credit: Peñalver et al., doi: 10.1002/spp2.1472.

Earliest Known Gnat Fossil Sheds Light on Evolutionary History of True Flies

Mar 14, 2023 by News Staff

Protoanisolarva juarezi, a new genus and species described from a 247-million-year-old larva, shares key features with Anisopodidae, a small cosmopolitan...

A fungus gnat trapped in Baltic amber some 45-55 million years ago is carrying on the upper portion of its severed leg a pollen sac from an orchid. Image credit: George Poinar, Jr.

45-55 Million Year Old Orchid Pollinaria Attached to Pollinating Insect Found in Piece of Baltic Amber

May 8, 2017 by News Staff

A new study published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society documents evidence of an orchid fossil trapped in Baltic amber that dates back 45-55...