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Scientists put on Hangai’i’s caterpillar as a unique and ancient generation of insects as a form of camouflage in the form of “bones”.
Researchers from the University of Hawaiia in Manoa are discharged in a piece of paper published Thursday in science. The caterpillars called the “bone collector” – they are watching the secret to live in a spider web, which is prey on other minor errors. Unfortunately, the unique caterpillar is likely to live in the danger, because it is known to be available only in a mountain range.
Caterpillar are larvaaws of butterflies and moths that are members of the order of the insect orders. These insects naturally nutritate plants less than 0.13% known to be caterpillars (lowest percentage of any insect order); This makes the odd caterpillar unusual. Somehow, the lifestyle is also strange.
Lead researcher Daniel Rubinoff and his team Hawaii learns the caterpillars and moths, especially those who are insects, especially in the sex, especially sex. At present, several different caterpillars in Hyosmocoma, which consist of more than 350 species, helped a few different generations. These generations often differ until the type of mobile they produce to protect themselves unless fully grown. However, so far, they and other scientists found only one type of caterpillars belonging to the bone collector.
As it seems, these caterpillars are usually thrown into the remnants of insect dishes – and the remnants of spiders – and spilled spider skins. It is inside the cage, cantarights, and where the spider will occur or in the rock flexions, and the trees are effectively hidden of spiders, because the team has never found evidence of caterpillars eaten by Arachnid homeowners.
“In terms of ecology, it is as if living in the Lion’s den; He hid in Smaug’s nest,” said Rubinoff told gizmodo on the phone. “This is a choice of a suspicious life, but this is a fun thing about evolution. This is the fact that these expectations will always be the same. However, Hawaii is an isolated place and threw the rules in terms of ways they develop.”
Rubinoff initially found this caterpillars in 2008, although the study was stymied with the lack of consecutive financing. At that time, in O’ahu Island, the bone collector living in the field of forest in the Wai’anae Mountain (16 kilometers) in the city of Wai’anae. However, the origin of the island currently experienced in the name of the island is currently broadcasting in the large islands, after an ancestor to O’ahu the coming was widespread.
Probably, the reduction of the waving population of the caterpillars, for example, violations that cause other people. However, the biggest reason for the decline in the caterpillars is probably a mass application of native non-local invasive types of nongsuits for Rubinoff.
“That’s what we really kill us, now we have these forest reserves that are only invasive.” So what you finish is a society that native Hawaii cannot live. “
The caterpillars were able to adapt to these changes a little because they could not live and live with their non-local Speed species. However, given the small distribution, we can soon see the last days of this ancient generation very well. If so, it would be another example to be Hawaii “Production capital “ the world.
“This is the last kind of capture for all generations. And it’s a little sad to think about it. We have to do a lot to do a lot to hang there.”
Rubinoff hopes that the team’s research can allow more resources and financing to save completely unique insects.
“This caterpillars have a deep kind of other caterpillars,” how to accept this different body parts, to beolate them, to follow them, to follow them, “he said. “And on it, the metabolic changes that allow to eat meat were large and very rare.”
