Furthermore, the gut contents, wing structures, and mouthpart morphologies of fossilized beetles and flies suggest that they acted as early pollinators. From Wordnik.com. [Pollination] Reference
The new needle has an inner diameter of around 25 microns and an external diameter of 60 microns, which is about the same size as a mosquito's mouthpart. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Note here: what was present before Angiosperms was the basic conformation of the mouthpart classes, not the actual highly adapted, specialized apparatuses that are often currently found in existing species. From Wordnik.com. [Behe and bugs: Genesis of a Creationist canard? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The supposed “mystery” here is that a 1993 paper by Labandeira and Sepkoski showed that “by the middle Jurassic the earliest commonly accepted date for the origin of Angiosperms 65% (low estimate) to 88% (high estimate) of all modern insect mouthpart classes were present”. From Wordnik.com. [Behe and bugs: Genesis of a Creationist canard? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The mouthpart is adapted to pierce the skin of human and animals, since the flea is a external parasite. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
When the flea cuts the skin of animals of human, it uses laciniae which is attached to the flea's mouthpart. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
We review and analyse studies on morphological trait complementarity (e.g. floral tube length versus insect mouthpart length) at the population and species level. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
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