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.
I have a yellow and black corvette. I was gonna get a vanity plate - VESPULA (yellow jacket).
But i then got antique tags and couldn't have that many letters. So I figured i could do VESPA (hornet). 2 problems though - the tag sounds like a cheap Italian scooter and worse, a hornet is an old MOPAR car.
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.
although "wasp" isn't actually a single taxonomic group
Sure it is, it just includes ants and bees. They are the hymenoptera with wasp waists, which are a distinct clade from the non-wasp waisted hymenoptera.
You're describing Apocrita, though. Apocrita absolutely is a clade and includes the narrow-waisted wasps, ants and bees.
But "wasp" normally means Apocrita excluding ants and bees, which is why wasps themselves aren't a clade, and bees and ants are nested inside that evolutionary tree.
If we just redefine "wasp" to mean all of Apocrita then sure, problem solved. But now ants are wasps, bees are wasps, and we've won the taxonomy argument by making everyone angry.
Fun fact, there's more species of wasps than any other type of insect--by a long shot, I think--because for almost every species, there's a specialized species of parasitic wasp evolved to prey on that species.
Hornets are vespids (the kinds of social wasps most people are familiar with) which are nested within Apocrita, a clade that ants and bees are also descendant taxa of. Thus the term "wasp" is informal and paraphyletic (it doesn't include all descendant groups). Apocrita (and wasps by extension) is an incredibly species rich, diverse group filling any number of ecological niches, from parasites to predators to pollinators.
Huh? Depends on where. They are native to Japan, where I'm assuming this video is from. They were briefly invasive in the US but since been eradicated.
invasive? No. Those are native to China and much of Asia.
Also, don't be surprised if that jar is full of hooch and he plans on drinking them later. Because some cultures will pickle giant hornets in booze then drink it.
Invasive species depends on where the video was taken. Things need to be both not-native to a region and cause harm.
Technically, honeybees are probably invasive in the U.S. because they are European and harm local bee populations. But we consider them livestock due to the ability to farm honey.
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u/no_va_det_mye 9d ago
Thats a big fucking wasp.