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| Sapmites; tiny plant-feeding sigmatatora | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 22 2010, 05:27 PM (282 Views) | |
| Vultur-10 | Oct 22 2010, 05:27 PM Post #1 |
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Sap mites (Arborisugidae) Time: very late Carboniferous Size: 3mm-6mm long Diet: herbivorous - rope tree pulp and juices Habitat: Rope tree vineland Narrow-bodied, tiny sigmatatora that live by sucking juices from and chewing at the soft pith or pulp of rope trees. This family originated in the latest Carboniferous and is highly specialized to the vineland ecosystem dominated by rope trees. Sap mites, while hard-shelled, have little mobility (especially as they are almost always locked onto a rope tree) and poor senses, limiting their ability to escape predation, so they have a very short life cycle and lay over one hundred eggs at a time. |
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| The Dodo | Oct 23 2010, 04:35 AM Post #2 |
Prime Specimen
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Would they cause much damage to the plants? |
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