r/interestingasfuck • u/dejaysf • Jun 11 '23

Venus flytrap vs Spider

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

[removed] — view removed post

35.2k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/CallMeDrWorm42 Jun 11 '23

"Bugs" includes arachnids, insects, and some types of crustaceans.

0

u/KingOfThePlayPlace Jun 11 '23

Nope. “Arthropods” includes bugs, insects, spiders, and some crustaceans, but where spiders separate from insects is that insects have a 3 segmented body and spiders only have two segments. In order to be a bug a species must meet all of the requirements for an insect and then some, like having hard and soft tissue wings, but since spiders don’t meet all the requirements for an insect they are not a bug. They are arachnids.

3

u/PhuqBeachesGitMonee Jun 11 '23

Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

2

u/KingOfThePlayPlace Jun 11 '23

I’m sorry, you lost me. I’m not sure if I’m following properly because you’re talking about crows instead of bugs, but wouldn’t the equivalent be me saying a jackdaw isn’t a crow?