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"Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (10 children)

TIL that wasps are pollinators. Not sure why but growing up I was always informed that they are not. They were predators who did not provide honey and so there was no need for them to be near flowers for pollen. Either I’m old or I grew up in a really shorty education system. (WhyNotBoth.gif)

Thanks to this image I looked it up and learned something. Thanks for teaching me something new today!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (7 children)

If you wanna learn about some more wasp pollination, look up fig wasps (Agaonidae). Wasps are legitimately one of the coolest groups of animals.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i mean that's a pretty unusual pollinator/plant relationship

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you study wasps, you'll find that they very frequently have odd symbioses from species to species, most often as parasites/parasitoids or hyperparasites. Some even have symbiotic relationships with viruses that assist them in their parasitism - ichneumon and braconid wasps have symbiotic viruses called polydnaviruses.

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