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What you'll find in here, too, is you'll actually find insect
traces, where they were underneath the bark, burrowing
in just like modern ones do.
This log, they call it the discovery log.
This is actually a pretty important discovery.
What you're looking at here are insect
traces and actual nest--
like little capsules here.
You can see they're lined up.
Little capsules of some nests of some kind of insect that
actually lived in this log.
You can see them here and here, coming out.
Now, these have been interpreted to be bees' nests.
And if that's true, these would be the earliest record
of bees by about 130 million years.
Some entomologists disagree and say that this is very
similar to some of the traces that modern beetles make,
rather than bees.
But what they did is, some of these capsules in here, they
went in and they found some preserved resins.
And they actually tested them for geochemically, and they
found the chemical that bees secrete.
So some more work needs to be done on these to
verify these results.
But they were definitely made by some kind of insect.
And it's a great example of how insects lived in these
logs and used them as a food source and as a home.
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