Family tree | Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center(https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/91/8d/12526586/5familytree.jpg)
Family tree | Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center(https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/91/8d/12526586/5familytree.jpg)
The USDA and @Smithsonian produced a comprehensive family tree of ants, bees & wasps. Research revealed that evolution was driven by a return to plant feeding & other features like stingers played less of a role. Specimens used from @NMNH insect collection, some over 100 yrs old!
Original source can be found here.
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