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[โ€“] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months 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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[โ€“] diverging@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] sunshine@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] diverging@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

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

[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

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