Comment on Time to start eating bugs, as a meat and dairy alternative

• theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bugs are technically crustaceans

  I’m not sure why that would be.

  Generally bugs is colloquial and has no specific meaning in taxonomy.

  Unless you mean “true bugs” from the order Hemiptera, which are definitely insects.

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  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All hexapods are considered crustaceans.

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    • theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      mh … from my understanding “crustacean” are in the phylum “Crustacea”, which doesn’t include hexapods. You’re thinking of the clade Pancrustacea.

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      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m talking about phylogeny, not taxonomy.

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