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CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

All pollinators are important but...

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All pollinators are important but...

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  • sycamore@lemmy.world
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    When I see a deer vs when I see a donkey

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      When I see a gorgeous deer vs when I see someone fucking a donkey

      Ftfy

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        gorgeous deer

        You make it sound like you are just envious that the donkey is already taken

  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Wasps are pollinators?

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      Yup, while they don’t collect pollen, they do visit flowers to find nectar for themselves. They inadvertently transfer pollen from plant to plant.

      • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙@lemmy.world
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        The capitalists of the bee world.

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      No, the idea is that bees are useful because pollinators, and honey.
      However, wasps may not be the friendliest creatures around, but they are certainly useful too - like cleaning up corpses, leftovers, and last but not least they eat insects that we think of as plagues

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        can’t live with em, can’t live without em 😔

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      Check out the book (or audiobook) Endless Forms by Seirian Sumner! It’s a fascinating exploration of the different kinds of wasps and their role in their environments. For example, some figs can only be polite (typo: pollinated) but a certain species of wasp and some wasps use antibacterial compounds to coat their nests.

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        Hard to tell if honest typos or just an AI

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          Honest typo. I keep using the swipe keyboard even though it sucks

      • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        That depends. How indepth is it? Are there pictures? I ask because I generally don’t like bugs. They give me the heebie-jeeies. Especially big insects or swarms of insects. Which is a shame because they are fascinating creatures regardless.

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          I honestly have no idea if there are pictures because I listened to it, but it does have a pretty accessible breakdown of their anatomy, physiology, and evolutionary biology. Like David Attenborough, but with more words instead of video, and more of the author’s story.

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            Ooh, I forgot about audiobooks! I might see if that’s in my library’s collection!

            Thanks!

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    When seabees.

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      Huh?

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        Navy construction personnel are called Seabees. They do other things and might actually operate firearms.

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    But wasps are good too…

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    Now I see bees I won.

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    deleted by creator

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    me when I see either: grabs flamethrower

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    Meanwhile, mosquitoes… pollinating, cleaning waterways as nymphs, females just needing the slightest amount of blood to lay a couple hundred eggs. Forgotten, maligned, made the focus of actual efforts to purposefully cause species extinction. ._.

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      Probably because of just how much death they directly cause

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        Mosquitoes don’t directly cause death, though.
        They are susceptible to diseases. They pass those diseases on. Those diseases cause death.
        Bees cause more direct deaths due to anaphylactic shock from allergies to apitoxin.

        Mosquitoes just catch all the blame.

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          Close enough, I’d say.

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      Not all mosquitoes bite humans. So, you could eradicate the biting variety, and a non-biting variety would step in to fill that ecological niche. I don’t see a downside.

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