• go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’ll never understand why people call wasps “bees”. They are extremely different. It’s like calling deer “horses”. Why is this a thing?

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      3 days ago

      Ya, that’s an odd odd thing. I know people that live around actual bees, watching the commercial hives swarm in the fields during pollination. They really know what bees are. And then when a wasp shows up, they are like “Fukin BEES!!!” and break out with a can of poison.

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        23 hours ago

        this is true if you sensibly agree that “wasp” is a generic term and not hornets specifically, bees and ants are “wasps” but they are not hornets.