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"Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

TIL that wasps are pollinators. Not sure why but growing up I was always informed that they are not. They were predators who did not provide honey and so there was no need for them to be near flowers for pollen. Either I’m old or I grew up in a really shorty education system. (WhyNotBoth.gif)

Thanks to this image I looked it up and learned something. Thanks for teaching me something new today!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

If you wanna learn about some more wasp pollination, look up fig wasps (Agaonidae). Wasps are legitimately one of the coolest groups of animals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Indeed very cool, but also quite disturbing the more you learn about less common wasps…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Haha there's a reason why the Xenomorph from Alien is in part inspired by parasitoid wasps.

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