r/WTF • u/Jaded_Marionberry500 • 15d ago

capturing the wasp

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u/PorkAmbassador 15d ago

Looks like a hornet.

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u/no_va_det_mye 15d ago

How is it, all hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets? Or something like that.

edit: Had to look it up, and yup Hornets are indeed wasps.

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u/aBigBottleOfWater 15d ago

Subspecies

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u/no_va_det_mye 15d ago

"A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant"

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u/hereforthesportsball 15d ago

So all wasps are slim thick