Cretaceous period – Doyle's Space

Ambrosia Beetles

Exotic ambrosia beetles are costly pests of ornamental and fruit trees nationwide—from front-yard plantings of Japanese maple and oak to commercially grown orchards of cherry, peach, plum and even avocado.

Ambrosia beetles belong to the subfamily Platypodinae and the family Curculionidae within the order Coleoptera. They are a diverse group of beetles comprising over 3,500 species distributed worldwide.

Chirostenotes

Pronounced KY-roh-stin-OH-teez

Chirostenotes lived about 80 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period. The first fossils of Chirostenotes, a pair of hands, were in 1914 found by George Fryer Sternberg near Little Sandhill Creek in the Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation of Canada.