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DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoBees 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.
sunshine@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
there’s more to biological taxonomies than just the concept of clades, fellow fish
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.”