FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 15 hours ago"Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps"message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1295arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-27 hours agoBees and ants are in the wasp family order. If wasps go, so to does much of the biodiversity among pollinators. Edit: specificity in language is important
minus-squareLaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·9 hours agoBees are not in the wasp family (although ants are)
minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoMy bad, I meant order, they’re distant cousins in the Hymenoptera order.
Bees and ants are in the wasp
familyorder.If wasps go, so to does much of the biodiversity among pollinators.
Edit: specificity in language is important
Bees are not in the wasp family (although ants are)
My bad, I meant order, they’re distant cousins in the Hymenoptera order.