No, but in a war they would side with the insects
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Lembot_0006@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Aren’t spiders insects?
tetris11@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
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Lembot_0006@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Aren’t spiders insects?
No, but in a war they would side with the insects
mech@feddit.org 16 hours ago
No. Insects have 6 legs, spiders have 8.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Are they in some separate category?
stray@pawb.social 16 hours ago
Yes, they’re arachnids.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid
Both insects and arachnids are arthropods.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod
mech@feddit.org 16 hours ago
They’re separate biological classes.
So they’re about as far apart as you are from a reptile, bird or fish.
stray@pawb.social 15 hours ago
Not exactly. Humans, birds, and reptiles are all within the phylum chordata, while arachnids and insects are both within the phylum arthropoda.
Fish, interestingly, aren’t a real thing in terms of formal classification. The term is similar to bug in that we apply it to whichever creatures we feel fit the description.
tomiant@piefed.social 7 hours ago
No, because spiders are super many, tiny, and scary, exactly like insects.
Lembot_0006 is orders of magnitudes larger than most reptiles, and is one of a kind.
I expect to lose this argument, but mom didn’t raise no quitter.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Arthropod?
bizarroland@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Arachnid
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Crab
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Even when they pretend to have 6?
Greg@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Or when 2 legs fall off?