zoe@infosec.pub to Videos@lemmy.world · 2 years agoTime to start eating bugs, as a meat and dairy alternativetwitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down125
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minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoBugs are technically crustaceans, because phylogenetics is fucked up.
minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 years 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-up1·2 years agoAll hexapods are considered crustaceans.
minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 years 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-up1·2 years agoI’m talking about phylogeny, not taxonomy.
minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoOk? Each node on a phylogenetic tree is a taxonomic unit. You can’t really talk about one without the other.
minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·2 years agoI am not in the mood to do whatever you’re doing here, shrimp is bugs, bye ✌️
minus-squareKalash@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoNot by any definition I can find, but feel free to be wrong.
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.
I am not in the mood to do whatever you’re doing here, shrimp is bugs, bye ✌️
Not by any definition I can find, but feel free to be wrong.
this escalated quickly xd