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andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 days agoYeah - a lot of “save the bees” narratives omit the fact that honey bees are not indigenous to the US and displaced some species.
We should be just as concerned for wasps, who are essential to pollination.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
i was with you until you got to the murder flies.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Baeus are absolutely adorable though, how could anyone hate a chubby wingless wasp?
Cookoo wasps wasps are gorgeous.
Many solitary wasp species incapacitate and lay eta in spiders - the spider bodies make tasty snacks for the babies.
It’s really only the social wasps that are aggressive though - which makes sense. They will sting and defend their hive with their lives, because that’s where their sisters and nieces live! But all wasp species are essential. We need paper wasps for pollination - even if a Polistes sting will ruin your day.
toynbee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The latter wasp reminds me of what I was told is the “Jade beetle,” but which is apparently a “figeater beetle.”
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If you like the green/iridescent, sweat bees are beautiful.
Common names for insects are very regional honestly. Ie, in my locale, we call “crane flies” “skeeter eaters.”
Or how “June bug”/“June beetle” covers hundreds of species.