The supreme victor of evolution.
>>5076504in biomass only,in number of species beetles are the winrars
Yeah, find a niche and fill it up.
I only recently learned that ants are a type of wasp.
>>5076622You only recently learned patently false information?
>>5076504Termite mogs.
>>5076651No. It's the same family as wasps. Or they evolved from them or something, I don't remember. The winged caste are the true form of the ant.
>>5076664Do you think humans are a type of orangutan, because they are both in the same family?
>>5076672I'd be more general and call both apes. Oh here's where I read it. The opening paragraph of the wikipedia article for "ant"."Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.[2] Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period."Saying they /are/ wasps was an oversimllification. They're Hymenopterans, which includes wasps and ants.
>>5076687>wikipediakill yourself,several times in a row and keep on doing it infinitely
>>5076691>musk has moved on from twitter and is now shitting up >>>/an/
>>5076691A mentally healthy person doesn't think or talk like this.
>>5076709>a fact in a politics-related article upset me so the millions of other articles on Wikipedia are now null and voidGod you're really so pathetic lmao
>>5076731Meant for >>5076691
>>5076692>>5076709>>5076731fuck off,you walking turdsShitpedia isn't a trustful source of info to hell with you for thinking otherwise
>>5076731Wikipedia doesn’t publish facts in political articles. It is made by humans. All humans conspire. All humans have agendas. All humans lie. Don’t trust humans.
>>5076691Humans are also a kind of fish
>>5076504Incorrect.
>>5076504>Climbs up on to your leg just to bite you for no reasonDeath to shitty ants
>>5076504I thought it was the design of the crab that evolution favors most of all
>>5077262stupid "everything is crabs" bullshit if that were true,beetles wouldn't be the most successful and diverse group of animals ever
>>5077266Beetles are land crabs
>>5077267that's spiders
>>5076504Taxation, slavery, farming, alliances, hierarchy, caste system.You name it, they got it.
>>5078966>TaxationElaborate on this. How do ants pay taxes?
>>5078966they need ant jesus
>>5078966wasps are still way more sobs than ants,imo
>>5076504>Evolves specifically to eat (You)You were saying?
>>5078966Ants are Indians?
>>5080754don't you ever disrespect ants like that again!
>>5076651Ants and bees are a type of wasp in the same sense that birds are a type of dinosaurBlame phylogenetics
>>5078966What is the queen's tax policy?
>>5079582They mostly eat termites actually.Ants are just a complement.
>>5076651It’s patently true. Ants are wingless wasps. It’s not up for debate. They are a wasp lineage that lost its wings. >>5076672It’s like saying humans are a type of great ape. Which, also, is not up for debate. Humans are neotenized, self domesticated chimps with strong adaptations to a diet that is over 50% animal tissue, which supports the growth and maintenance of the largest brain of any ape, and really isn’t that spectacular or improbable of a mutation because its just one body part getting bigger and that mutation being able to persist because it happened in a population that was already scavenging and hunting meat, most likely by riverbanks and coasts (humans, without industry and agriculture, require a lot of nutrients that are hard to get anywhere but fish)Its only hard to believe because normal low to mid-intellect humans have strong instincts for avoiding other more distantly related primates and lack the introspective tendencies to realize why those might exist. They could, in fact, be the reason we split. Stepping back from the human perspective even the most derived west and east asian homo sapiens subspecies are visibly, obviously - apes. As surely as a bear is obviously a caniform, not a giant cat.
>>5076687The wasp ancestors were so visually, obviously wasps, that if one flew in your face today you would call it a wasp. They are wasps.It’s not a stretch until someone starts saying all insects are shrimp, which is like saying all terrestrial vertebrates are fish, even though their gill arch derived structures are so twisted up they look nothing like a fish beyond having a spine, a skull, and "bony fins" (feet and hands) but at the end of long complex stalks unlike anything ever seen in fish.
>>5076504Not really, they're too small and too genetically bottlenecked since they're eusocial.They have succeeded in their niche but they're no humans.
They are just lame-ass floor wasps. Spiteful, angry. Nobody wants to be a shitty ant, but everybody wants to be a wasp. Countless insects mimic wasps. Even spiders, who are supposed to eat insects.
>>5081312No, saying ants and wasps are both the same family is like saying humans are apes.That family is not called "wasps".You are wrong.
>>5081986>No, saying ants and wasps are both the same family is like saying humans are apes.which is also completely true, so spot on analogy there actually.>That family is not called "wasps".technically true, in the absolute most meaningless way possible. it's impossible to group all wasps together without also including all ants and bees. so either "wasps" don't exist, or ants and bees are wasps.
