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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prettybunnys@piefed.social 20 hours agoTraditionally birds = women because they make nests
Bees = men because they pollinate.
Please do disregard the fact that bees make hives/nests AND birds pollinate
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.
Hymen means membrane. -ptera is wing. They have membranous wings, and no carapace like beetles. Not named due to virginity.
Bees fly around carrying the “sperm” of one plant to another.
Hymenoptera* 🤭
Worker bees are female. Male bees only hang around the queen for sex.
DancingBear@midwest.social 19 hours ago
99% of bees are female
prettybunnys@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Right, but it’s a metaphor not a science experiment
DancingBear@midwest.social 9 hours 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
prettybunnys@piefed.social 9 hours 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