FundMECFS to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 3 months ago"Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps"message-square28arrow-up1333file-text
arrow-up1333message-square"Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps"FundMECFS to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square28file-text
minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) linkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-23 months agoBees and ants are in the wasp family order. If wasps go, so to does much of the biodiversity among pollinators. Edit: specificity in language is important
minus-square@LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•3 months agoBees are not in the wasp family (although ants are)
minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) linkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoMy bad, I meant order, they’re distant cousins in the Hymenoptera order.
Bees and ants are in the wasp
familyorder.If wasps go, so to does much of the biodiversity among pollinators.
Edit: specificity in language is important
Bees are not in the wasp family (although ants are)
My bad, I meant order, they’re distant cousins in the Hymenoptera order.