A bee is a type of wasp, is it not? I think techniclly ants are wasps too.
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gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 3 days agoI’ll never understand why people call wasps bees. They are extremely different. It’s like calling deer horses. Why is this a thing?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sirence@feddit.org 2 days ago
A bee is not a type of wasp. They are both Hymenoptera, one of the 4 types of insects, but that would be the same as saying a dog is a kind of human because both are Eutheria.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
my mistake
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
this is true if you sensibly agree that “wasp” is a generic term and not hornets specifically, bees and ants are “wasps” but they are not hornets.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Because I just glanced at the picture while hiding my phone from customers and thought they were bees
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still think they look like bees. I’ve only ever known wasps to be black
dbtng@eviltoast.org 3 days ago
Ya, that’s an odd odd thing. I know people that live around actual bees, watching the commercial hives swarm in the fields during pollination. They really know what bees are. And then when a wasp shows up, they are like “Fukin BEES!!!” and break out with a can of poison.