#zoo reblog
God that “ants are wasps!” post drives me crazy. Just total misunderstanding of phylogenetics turned into misinformation. The unqualified bug people on this site really need to stop sometimes.
#the problem is that wasps are not a monophyletic group #to make wasps a monophyletic group families such as Scoliidae would have to be excluded or ants and bees would have to be included #both of these options are bad so wasps are not a clade #we see this type of unproductive generalization all the time though: #’humans are fish’ #’dolphins are whales’ #also in general people consistently struggle to figure out how relatedness works and cannot read phylogenetic trees accurately at all #I spend most of my office hours explaining how phylogenetic trees work and crown group relatedness
Just gonna reblog with these tags from @bulldykepinetree because this is spot on.
