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• DoubleSpace@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bees and wasps, while both belonging to the Hymenoptera order, diverged within the superfamily Apoidea. Specifically, bees are thought to have evolved from predatory wasps, primarily within the family Crabronidae. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that bees are nested within a paraphyletic Crabronidae.

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  • diverging@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So what I am hearing you say is that bees are wasps.
    And upon further examination, ants are wasps.

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    • sunshine@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      there’s more to biological taxonomies than just the concept of clades, fellow fish

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      • diverging@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Only if you make arbitrary decisions. Like “I don’t want to be a fish therefore tetrapods are not fish.”

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  yellowjacket specifically, wasp is a very broad term, it’s like calling a cat “a mammal”

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