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Clive Thompson
@clive@saturation.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

"in defense of wasps"

honestly I'd always wondered why evolution spun up these critters

https://thewalrus.ca/in-defence-of-wasps/

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@PrivacyMatters
@Privacymatters@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday
@clive you may be interested in the excellent @WaspWoman and her work (& book ‘endless forms’). I changed my views on wasps after listening to Seirian.
A close up photo of the head of a wasp
A close up photo of the head of a wasp
A close up photo of the head of a wasp
A close up photo of a yellow and black striped wasp
A close up photo of a yellow and black striped wasp
A close up photo of a yellow and black striped wasp
A close up photo of looking down on the head of a Median Wasp
A close up photo of looking down on the head of a Median Wasp
A close up photo of looking down on the head of a Median Wasp
A close up photo of the side of a Median Wasp
A close up photo of the side of a Median Wasp
A close up photo of the side of a Median Wasp
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John Overholt
@overholt@glammr.us replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@clivehttps://www.reddit.com/r/fuckwasps/comments/1d91qz1/see_you_in_hell/
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Clive Thompson
@clive@saturation.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@overholt

😂

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David Todd McCarty
@davidtoddmccarty@me.dm replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@clive I never thought of yellow jackets as wasps. I know they’re not bees, so I don’t know what I thought they were. What’s a hornet? Also a wasp?
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Ray N. Franklin 🇺🇸
@rnf@mindly.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@davidtoddmccarty @clive According to Wikipedia & others, hornets are a sub-species of wasp. Wasps have a prominent narrow waist between thorax and abdomen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet

Biggest wasp? Cicada killer

#wasp #hornet #bee

Yellow and black wasp, a cicada killer, with a cicada the wasp has immobilized. Both large insects are resting on a person's open hand near the fingertips. Background is green grass and trees in the distance.
Yellow and black wasp, a cicada killer, with a cicada the wasp has immobilized. Both large insects are resting on a person's open hand near the fingertips. Background is green grass and trees in the distance.
Yellow and black wasp, a cicada killer, with a cicada the wasp has immobilized. Both large insects are resting on a person's open hand near the fingertips. Background is green grass and trees in the distance.
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Clive Thompson
@clive@saturation.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@rnf @davidtoddmccarty Right on
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Sam Stokes
@samstokes@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
@clive I might need to read that but I don't know that I want to read that
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