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• DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  99% of bees are female

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Right, but it’s a metaphor not a science experiment

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    • DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Right, but male birds are usually the “pretty” ones because they have to impress the females with their display, and bees are all female, so it seems like a terribly inaccurate metaphor, if we can even call it that

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      • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes. I pointed that out in my original comment also.

        Since birds pollinate and bees make nests, it as youve pointed out sexual dimorphism in birds tends to have them as the pretty ones.

        It’s a weak metaphor

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• Starstarz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s impossible for me to forget that all bees (& wasps & ants) are order HYMENOPERTA, literally named for them being 99% virgin females

  So I am totally stumped.

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  • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hymen means membrane. -ptera is wing. They have membranous wings, and no carapace like beetles. Not named due to virginity.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hymenoptera* 🤭

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bees fly around carrying the “sperm” of one plant to another.

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Worker bees are female. Male bees only hang around the queen for sex.

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