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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's the joke here? I'm not an entomologist

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No expert, but I believe the picture is of a wasp.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bees and wasps, while both belonging to the Hymenoptera order, diverged within the superfamily Apoidea. Specifically, bees are thought to have evolved from predatory wasps, primarily within the family Crabronidae. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that bees are nested within a paraphyletic Crabronidae.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So what I am hearing you say is that bees are wasps.
And upon further examination, ants are wasps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

there's more to biological taxonomies than just the concept of clades, fellow fish

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Only if you make arbitrary decisions. Like "I don't want to be a fish therefore tetrapods are not fish."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

yellowjacket specifically, wasp is a very broad term, it's like calling a cat "a mammal"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

It's shows a wasp and not a bee...