zoe @infosec.pub to Videos@lemmy.world · 1 year agoTime to start eating bugs, as a meat and dairy alternativetwitter.commessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down120
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minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoBugs are technically crustaceans, because phylogenetics is fucked up.
minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year ago Bugs are technically crustaceans I’m not sure why that would be. Generally bugs is a colloquial name and has no specific meaning in taxonomy. Unless you mean “true bugs” from the order Hemiptera, which are definitely insects.
minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAll hexapods are considered crustaceans.
minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agomh … from my understanding “crustacean” are in the phylum “Crustacea”, which doesn’t include hexapods. You’re thinking of the clade “Pancrustacea”.
minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI’m talking about phylogeny, not taxonomy.
minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOk? Each node on a phylogenetic tree is a taxonomic unit. You can’t really talk about one without the other.
Those poor bugs :(
shrimps: always have been
Well, technically those are crustaceans.
🦐🦞
Bugs are technically crustaceans, because phylogenetics is fucked up.
I’m not sure why that would be.
Generally bugs is a colloquial name and has no specific meaning in taxonomy.
Unless you mean “true bugs” from the order Hemiptera, which are definitely insects.
All hexapods are considered crustaceans.
mh … from my understanding “crustacean” are in the phylum “Crustacea”, which doesn’t include hexapods. You’re thinking of the clade “Pancrustacea”.
I’m talking about phylogeny, not taxonomy.
Ok?
Each node on a phylogenetic tree is a taxonomic unit. You can’t really talk about one without the other.