Tag: prehistoric pollinators
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Prehistoric Pollinators
This post was originally published in January 16, 2012, on my blog “Pollinators Info” (no longer online). Scorpionflies did it before birds or bees! Fossils suggest scorpionflies might have been some of Earth’s first pollinating animals! Scorpionflies are a neat group of insects. Their order, Mecoptera, means “long wings,” and their common name comes from…
Athena Rayne Anderson 