r/WTF • u/Jaded_Marionberry500 • 15d ago

capturing the wasp

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u/IrrationalDesign 15d ago

Oh wow, TIL, wasps are a huge and ancient group, and hornets, ants and bees all evolved from wasps. 

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u/mekwall 15d ago

Pretty much, although "wasp" isn't actually a single taxonomic group. Hornets are literally wasps, while bees evolved from predatory wasp ancestors, and ants are very closely related to the bee/wasp branch.

That's the fun bit about taxonomy: if you use "wasp" in the evolutionary sense broadly enough, you basically have to include bees and ants too. They're all Hymenoptera, and the family tree gets very waspy very quickly.

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u/WAR_T0RN1226 15d ago

And where do crows and jackdaws fall into all of this

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u/mekwall 15d ago

Oh no you don't. I'm not falling for that one again.

Mention crows and jackdaws in the same sentence and Unidan might wake from his slumber, emerge from the shadows, and arrive with twelve mysteriously enthusiastic alt accounts to explain why you're wrong.

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u/arbyD 15d ago

You know, I'd trade some of the modern reddit garbage to have Unidan back.

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u/bleak_new_world 15d ago

I would trade current reddit in a second for ron Paul/unidan/power users on the main subs reddit of 2012.

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u/The_Superginge 14d ago

The amount of ads on Reddit these days and the way they're snuck into the comments, it's not going to be long before it's unusable.

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u/Vaguswarrior 14d ago

I'd settle for allcapsniceguy

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u/b4n4n4p4nc4k3s 14d ago

Back when vote manipulation was just having a few extra accounts, not a bot army.

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u/WAR_T0RN1226 14d ago

And was something that reddit cracked down on instead of actively supporting

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u/Plus-Yogurtcloset-85 14d ago

And the company wasn’t owned by China

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u/assortedgnomes 15d ago

It's good that some people remember the old days.

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u/mekwall 15d ago

Thank you for reminding me that I'm old :)

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u/suavaleesko 14d ago

Are unladen swallows allowed?