Makes sense; there wouldn’t have been any flowers or tetrapods for them to suck on yet.
Edit: @KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works deleted his comment, but he was at least half-right. Amphibians (tetrapods) had indeed started to show up in the Carboniferous. That said, the Wiki page I read before commenting said that mosquitos feed from mammals and reptiles but didn’t mention amphibians. I think it’s not that I was wrong about them having nothing to eat, but that I was wrong about overgeneralizing to say “tetrapods.”
Also, the ancestors of flowering plants did indeed diverge from their common ancestor with gymnosperms during the Carboniferous, although flowering plants didn’t become dominant until the Cretaceous.
I had originally misread the other comment as saying there were no tetrapods 175mya, not during the carboniferous. That is technically correct for the beginning of the era in question, though tetrapods and flowers did evolve not long after.
Makes sense; there wouldn’t have been any flowers or tetrapods for them to suck on yet.
Edit: @KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works deleted his comment, but he was at least half-right. Amphibians (tetrapods) had indeed started to show up in the Carboniferous. That said, the Wiki page I read before commenting said that mosquitos feed from mammals and reptiles but didn’t mention amphibians. I think it’s not that I was wrong about them having nothing to eat, but that I was wrong about overgeneralizing to say “tetrapods.”
Also, the ancestors of flowering plants did indeed diverge from their common ancestor with gymnosperms during the Carboniferous, although flowering plants didn’t become dominant until the Cretaceous.
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I had originally misread the other comment as saying there were no tetrapods 175mya, not during the carboniferous. That is technically correct for the beginning of the era in question, though tetrapods and flowers did evolve not long after.