FundMECFS to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days ago"Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps"message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1313file-text
arrow-up1313message-square"Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps"FundMECFS to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-21 day 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-squareLaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoBees are not in the wasp family (although ants are)
minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day 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.