How Ants and Bees Broke the Game 

I'm glad the info came across well enough to be understood! It's a complicated topic so I was worried that the gaming jargon would obfuscate an already difficult point too much.

@@TierZoo Personally, the gaming terminology is much more understandable than the legitimate scientific terms which each have like a bajillion sub sections and etc

I wasn't expecting eusociality to be based on changing the genetics math, i just assumed the queen intentionally only birthed infertile females to the only way to keep their genetic code going was to serve the queen. I didn't realize that the sisters were 75% the same making them closer than they are to their own children, which really changes the math on how to best pass on your genes.

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@@TierZoo can now send this to explain during my cool caste infodumps to explain the relatedness theory

@Newcious Nobody will remember you.

And not only a top tier but THE top tier class complaining about other class.

@@mauriciokenway9922 Ants have more biomass on this planet than humans, also probably cover more ground, so they are more successful in those metrics.

@@CheeseOfMasters yes but if humans decided to they could wipe half the class on a whim, human class is still top tier while ants are simply viable when playing coop

@@mauriciokenway9922 Depends on how you define winning the game. I dont think humans are THE top class. To say they are just plays into their designflaws of thinking they are the center of the universe, pinnacle of creation.

True, I actually have zero intrest and knowledge in gaming but these videos are still highly entertaining to watch

Gamer English is becoming this weird pseudo-dialect in the same way Legalese is technically English, and it’s interesting how gamer terminology makes knowledge transfer more efficient with all the shorthand words.

He also does it in such a way where the gaming terms don’t distract or cover up true facts that much; he doesn’t like make up stuff just to make it work for the terminology

first time? *meme*

It’s great for younger kids as well, I think this approach should be utilized in kindergartens.

Aaaaah I remember one time I found a bug that looked like a caterpillar… it could barely move or at least that’s what it was trying to do… anyways I decided to poke it with a stick and as soon as I touch its body, it cracked open and hundreds of tiny larvae came out from its insides… aaggg it literally traumatized me ( i was 8 or 10 years old) and I could never get that image off my head

Alien…

Propably what xenomorph was based on

some species can even enthral the larvae.

They turn you into a mother and a meal. I think it's sweet in a hannibal kinda way

And have crazy castes organization with all those different types of queens and kings like ergatoids and nymphoids...

Also they have gender equality

They are not from the same species. They are more closely related with beatles than ants or wasp....

Termites are more basal, less aggresive and less dangerous. Not to mention that they are not as widespread as ants wasps and bees.

@@jiekimbuous holy shit, based bugs

@what now wtf is that 44 likes yo I'm famous 80 likes wtf

Or as a glue gun in the case of weaver* ants.

It matters not. I life and die by the colony.

Have you ever played Goths?

@@hundred-eyedmonster1160 a family of spam channels that have been crippling a lot of comments section lately

Marine build is a great counter for this types build

Flying eusocial builds like to wait for their pray outside the water, so amphibian builds are in big trouble, while with full marine builds usually have no problem unless they're also mammals

never heard of a marine frog.

@@mattoiles_9641 i think a dolphin cannot live in ponds and bees cannot stay so much long in the sea. If they are a full marine build, they usually come to sea, where a more competitive meta offers more rewards (with some River builds as an exception)

Wasps stuck in pools able to still sting: *Drowning anger never dies noises*

I like how the music in the beginning was the intro for the godskin apostles.

Hey it's Curious Archive! Love your videos by the way!

I think they're calling it a feature now

Peak fiction youtuber😤😤😤😤

We busted the game wide open by mastering the tech tree over evolutionary stat bumps. Our build doesn't need exploits to be viable, dude. Unless the devs add growth to the next expansion, i doubt they will overtake our position in the leaderboard.

The game devs have brought a huge nerf to these exploiters already: The long term solution is global warming. Sadly the recent patches have only contributed to the dying of very specialized and laid back groups, The tryhard factions like the red fire ants or yellow crazy ants are already coming up with new exploits. One Bee faction is now respecing to be Africanized “Killer” Bees, which shows their desperation. We can only hope the Wasps will be left out in the next patches, to stop the terror of their new and upgraded yellow jacket.

I love it.

Considering the dataminer that made the knowledge of passing down code more widespread only did so after his character's offspring spawned with debuffs because of the "incest" mating style in humans, I'd say they're doing good work.

ok

@@BlazingShadowSword So science started.. because the first scientist.. fucked his family?

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cultured.

and the Hollow Knight font too!

Shes actually a spider team cherry made the lore a lot more confusing with the name.

@@chezfry I forgot that she isn't a bug 😂

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he needs to collaborate with Ants Canada for that!

@@reavl6494 OH HELL YES! "What's up AC family, today we're talking about OVERPOWERED ANT BUILDS."

"You get an S, you get an S ..."

Man, ants are SO cool!

There are so many ants to cover up That video will be juicy

Yes please

Think bullet ant may be a tier And leaf maybe a s teirs

The best ant build is definitely the chimera ant, combining their eusociality with human intelligence is definitely a meta warping build.

the S+ tier is the ant whose head is a door, without him an ant nest is everyone's nest

@@YuniversalYT human intelligence?bro please, ain't no ant aeroplanes, ant animes, ant radio signals...

I think they broke the game too. Hackers from another Meta imo.

Modded attacks

We don't support hackers here. They have maxed STR stats & quickdraw ability

@@NickSibz: mantis shrimp are hackers Mantis Shrimp: lol, get good scrub

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Except any Game with a Minimum of difficulty that punishes you for having low hp

​@@jesussanjose2664just don't get hit 😔

​@@jesussanjose2664stop fat rolling. Just take the armor off for better s

supreme commander bee edition

Still want him to comment this clip ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0QaAKi0NFkA.html

Yeah that stuck with me. Interesting implications for the human race too.

I am a dumbo what does Rts mean

@@hohoboi8719 Real time strategy. Age of empires is an example of such a game in that genre.

Their INT stat is so high that they start asking stupid questions

Humans get so bored they seriously try to get 110% completion...

@@Daniel_45 So high that they start questioning their own existence, which is indeed a pretty stupid question -- the sidequest "Outer Wilds" taught me that the goal of Outside is to have fun :) Enjoy your playthrough while you're here, because the servers *will* shut down one day, and that's okay. We had a great time together, didn't we?

That's true!

Bees/Hymetherions: OK let's survive and reproduce by helping our Queen (Our Glorious Leader) by gathering food so she can clone herself or her grubs and so we can continue building our dominions! Also Bees/Hymetherions: "Damn Bears! Stealing our food-" (Later) *Damn Bears! I stab you! Stab Stab*

Normal players: Ugh, I need to survive! Ant players: LET'S DIE BY THE THOUSANDS FOR THE GLORY OF THE HIVE

Incels really need to stop taking their anger out on the world

South American parrots settling into North American cities should go here too - one particularly fascinating case is monk parakeets in Chicago building their characteristic gigantic multi-chamber stick nests on top of active electrical equipment, giving them both heat and insulation to survive astonishingly brutal Chicago winters!

Back? You should be living them still, game came out like yesterday.

This man went to Nokstela and decided to make video about ant

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard

“I am Malenia. Blade of Miquella.”

Glyphid Exploder

@@electrum5579 rock and stone brother

Ants are so OP they literally created Creepers before Creepers were even a thing

@@radiation6913 Leave no dwarf behind!

Which mad lad thought up that ability?

wth this only has 1 like

@@ASocialistTransGirlcuz literally no one cares about nebula

​@@daxlucero2437LOL he forgot to pin his own comment.

And let's not forget the naked mole rat

Yes yes they are

Ants are aesthetic, termites are gross

Termites are a couple buffs away from destroying human habits in the rural zones.

*Naked mole rats* :guys? *Ambrosia beetles* :uh, guys..? *snapping shrimp* : GUYS! Heterocephalus glaber, Austroplatypus incompertus, Synalpheus regalis

Well, yea. As stated in the vid. It's no longer action rpg. It's RTS. You have your base, resource pickup, infantries, heavy armors... Dunno if they have superweapons. But encountering big opponents animals must have felt like taking down epic/commando units.

The Flood game mode is also very fun when there arent any 3 year olds playing.

Great way to start the game too. Meet a bunch of other people who need you just as much as you need them so they colony survives

@@Spider-NalgasI can see the clan builds and guilds having a lot of fun but the use of bots on this server is op

@@thelukesternater so is malware. It’s crazy that Fungal Class players figured out how to take control of Insect Classes

Crab mentality

Not an analogy. You may need to read the selfish gene.

@@FilosSofo I'm thinking he meant analysis

Not only does it make it more entertaining, but also easier to digest. The comparison between nature and gaming seems to be one that this guy has gotten really good at now.

I'm also not a biologist, yet somehow I'm able to distinguish a bee from a wasp

I am not a biologist, but blabla women

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@@VeganSemihCyprus33 🛂

GOP vs Queer; an amazing video by 'Some MOre News' that i warmly recommend all my fellow Zoo-Fans.

WHAT THE WHAT??? i am over 100 years old and still making youtub videos? oh yeah baby. why? because i am the ultimate youtuber. woo woo woo you know it dear waya

@@AxxLAfriku*It seems as if the bot is having a stroke. Which doesn‘t really make sense considering he is a program and nothing more.*

Amogus

@@Mandarinoooooo that might just be there as an intended error to make it seem like a human typed it

@@roberine7241 It just comes off as someone having a schizo moment

ants block door to stop predators. the ant with the biggest head is most likely to be successful. repeat ten billion times, each time the biggest head is most likely to "win" thereby enabling its hive to pass on its genes... and eventually, there's literally a gene for biggest head because there has been a "selection pressure" to elicit that gene in a phenotype. :D

@@Laeiryn explained almost perfectly!

@@Laeiryn okay but if the queen is responsible for breeding, then how are adaptations developed in the rest of the colony? To explain what I'm asking better, if this large headed ant never does anything itself to pass down its genetic information, how does it end up evolving?

@@OverAchieverStudios the ants colony with no ants with bigger head to block to doors are most likely to just die. So on the long term the queen that are able to generate them are more likely to survive and reproduce. People dont realize how much time pass before we can actually realize and categorie this"new type of ants" haahah

@@martinlabossiere ah okay makes sense. Just didn’t know if I was missing a certain detail or if it really was only the queen that passes down genetic information. I also know nothing about ants or colony species. Thanks!

I’d be curious to see how a bear might respond to exotic species of bee/wasp.

@@TheRestedOne well it would probably fuckin die

@@fork9767 no they would not

@@bigmanbigman2544 prove it nerd

@@fork9767 the bear is strong big bear strong the bear can ignore the bee no matter the kind of bee

It's doubly fun cause bees and wasps bloody learn to recognize you too. Like the whole hive will learn who you are. So one of them passed on your description to another who passed it on to another. It makes me wonder if they have short names for people or just describe them in detail every time.

"That loser kid scumbag Steve is back!" "Attack him before he takes out that bright light circle thing!" (magnifying glass)

@@misomie So THAT'S why my GF had the same huge bumblebee queen twice in her room🤔🤔🤔 Gotta say i prefer bumblebees over the rest, especially the bombus terrestris, they are peaceful asf and never bothered us in any way, they are hilarious and even defy gravity, that's some A Tier material!

@@andylaw3222 "According to all known laws of aviation..."

@@andylaw3222 Yeah, I love those peaceful little ladies too. At my parents' old house, the queen would come and say high to my brother every spring. He was certain they recognized him, and I think so too. He gardens, so they saw him more than anyone else. But none of us ever harmed them, so they were never aggressive towards us either.

Ur mom is a bad mom. Sorry to tell you the truth.

L mom. This is hella entertaining and educating.

What violence? Its Nature

Its just nature, does she not let you outside or something? Plus its really educational

A bit too overprotective with a touch of control But her heart is in the right place so its all good❤

I think Hive Knight would've made more sense but using Hornet's theme just makes her name a corny pun

I was thinking same thing. Like "O H, you're talking about tarantula hawks and the like, right? Right."

Cordyceps fungi: “Hold my disgusting brain mushroom”

This confused me too, but fortunately the graphics show that 100% of father DNA is passed on

So... 75% it's an exact copy of the parent's DNA and the remaining 25% is RNG?

Thanks for clearing that up. I had to pause that section of the video and I still didn't get it.

thank you, i was confused as well by what tierzoo was saying but this comment made it clear

@@Srevengel No, every life is 100% a copy of their parents' DNA barring mutation, the 75% similarity in hymenoptera is with their siblings.

Personally some of the changes feel like a downgrade to me. The shift towards increasingly catchy and clickbaity titles and content feels like a break from the enjoyable mix of real world biology and video game speak that came from his earlier videos. Especially here when he is saying bees are op during a time they are in extreme crisis feels detrimental towards the reality of how fragile they are, and how important it is that we preserve them.

@@e4Bc4Qf3Qf7 Except that's not really true. The only reason that crisis exists is because of humans, the only creatures that can really oppose bees besides other bees. Humans spread the honey bee so much that a large amount of the planet has become dependent on them over the last few hundred years as they killed off native pollinator populations, so when something bad happens to one species of bee, it becomes a big deal. But overall the 'faction' is still doing extremely well and overall populations are still increasing even with humans fucking with them and a few species going down in numbers.

​@@e4Bc4Qf3Qf7 oh I was mostly talking about his video editing skills. Compared to the early days of his RU-vid channel, the quality of his editing has came a long way from where it started what with the more polished visual and audio. As an amateur video editor, I admire his improvement. I'm not sure that he's becoming more clickbaity though, he's titled some of his older videos with similar wording (e.g. "How humans broke the game" and "How Mosasurus broke the game" both from 2019). And personally I don't mind "clickbaits" as long as it actually delivers quality content which TierZoo does. I do agree to a certain degree about him seemingly glossing over the fact that the population of some bee species are decreasing, especially because he usually briefly mention it when a species is endangered. But eh, he could've just forgot to put it in the script, slip ups happen.

Yeah, it's amazing how much his videos have evolved.

Even things like mealworms?

@@jaimemartinez8963 Nah like it would only include animals that are called "worms" even in their adult stage. So things like inchworms, meal worms etc won't count. I mean things like earthworms, flatworms, bristleworms, bloodworms, among others

Could something similar to be said to colonial builds like corals and sponges?

@@artman40 Not particularly, because said corals and sponges have no real communication and no strategy. Coral and sponges are really more like auto-clickers.

I wonder what happens when they figure out they can use macros

@@meneermankepoot Get banned for hacking by humans

That's what humans did.

Ok, but may I present to you: Bullet Ant.

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@@VeganSemihCyprus33 are you dillusional

Summoner is a great clases in outside

@@BarcelonaFan3213 its delusional

I've been begging for it on every video for a while now.

I think it's really hard to do them justice, and TierZoo did an excellent job here!

Its no wander they needed to break the game because many other players need them to play, therefore it makes sense that they play with self modified rules

Yeah, Outside has been patched around pollinators since at least the Cretaceous build. I dunno about the kids these days, but I remember back in the day suppliers couldn't keep the _Flowering_ expansion to _Outside: Jurassic_ on the shelves! It was so popular that vanilla Jurassic had to be scrapped and Cretaceous was rushed out with baseline _Flowering_ options. Just goes to prove how much more fundamental the exploits become when a fan-made feature with rushed play-testing time gets sent out to the public.

Imagine breaking the meta so hard the devs have no way of nerfing you without destroying their own game.

@@sonokawaray It's called corporate capitalism.

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In that type of situation I think that is what the Borg is. Sure we can excel at things like never before but part of humanity is our chaoticness

So all dissension in mankind is just a nerf to prevent complete game breaking

I wish people would stop imagining that, because attempts to implement that level of collectivism inevitably end in disastrous failures,. The most examples are the 10s of millions of bodies left by communism. That level of collectivism completely disregards the dignity of individual humans, and it goes completely against our nature and how our minds work. Remember that the only reason it works in bees and ants is a genetic trick that's biologically impossible in humans.

There were two attempts at this strategy. One doctrine was fascism and the other was communism. However, humans generally rejected both play styles.

@@QualityPen true that lol

You got lucky, accidentally walked into an ambush of bees. I died and lost everything. Always make a hearing check before walking into a new area.

pro tip: if you have access to tools in your build, always utilize them. Human players who can endure the intimidation debuff can trap a wasp unit under a plastic cup. They don't even have to actively kill it or try to remove it via the somewhat risky strategy of sliding a piece of paper underneath, they just have to outlast the insect player. Granted, it's usually the "get the wasp under a cup" step that's the most difficult.

@@Romanticoutlaw I opt for a grab move while having a cloth equipped

be sure to stay away from the alcohol and marijuana debuffs, and you should be just fine

@@onigirl05 thank goodness they have the audio cues. Ants, however, have always tripped me up with how quiet they are. Kinda busted that they mostly use the invisible pheromones-based ping system so players like me who don't spec much into scent abilities can't detect their signals.

I'm just waiting for humans to get patched out by the devs.

@@lee-jj1js will dragon mains finally be a thing then?

@@hyzmarie maybe if their are enough radioactive lizards that can reproduce 😇

@@samlink686 yay! (Don’t tell anybody, but I’ve been modding it in)

​@@lee-jj1js brother , you want to be logged out early ?

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They don’t have all the other special abilities.

Invested players look at casual players that just camp as something to increase their kill streak and maintain their energy levels.

@@evilsharkey8954 They have some other ones which are really cool For example, some can shoot acid, kill a tree by removing its bark, build nests up to 9m high and 9m deep using feces mixed with mud, have secondary queens (and kings) in case the main ones die (to replace them)...

To be fair termites aren't closely related to ants wasps and bees at all, they're closest to cockroaches

Meanwhile me and my friends when we’re together are the exact opposite. When we’re together, all of a sudden there’s more of us than there are neurons per individual, thus causing us to have only a single neuron which we all share.

I like to think that the ant's queen is the real player controlling them in God View... XD

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@@Luis-qj3pg The colony is the actual organism, not the individual. A single bee is as useful as a single cell in your body

I think of hives more like how multicellular organisms first evolved - individual cells started sticking together, forming a safe environment within, for cells to specialise, and due to sticking together, when moving, they'd move together, increasingly functioning as one macro-organism, until we get to a point where if they separated, the whole colony dies, and now we have one macro-organism. So now we have two models of macro-macro organisms. Eusocial, and civilised (us). We can literally manipulate reality's building blocks on an atomic level, and regularly manipulate them on a slightly higher level to create the silicon dies that power the devices on which we type all of these comments.

that's what a real time strategy game is

The queen doesn't control their hive, that's why it's called hive mind. It's more like a neural network with each part contributing to the system.

@@Gaunerchen no its not. They are literally bots who do their job and communicate but they dont have a shared intelligence or a group conscousnes (as if the current understanding of them)

@@CoNteMpTone it all comes down to how you define consciousness. Each individual insect is very simple. Even the Queen has a relatively simple nervous system, and would not be considered intelligent on its own. The whole hive though, acts in what appears to be an intelligent and organised way. It's an emergent behaviour from the simple choices each insect makes, and the simple rules that they instinctualy follow. Whether you can call a system intelligent or conscious, or if those terms are reserved for individual organisms is a matter of deffinition.

Even though ironically Hornet is closer to a spider than an actual hornet

@@astuteanansi4935 yeah, there really is no hornet phenotype in her, she's the daughter of a wyrm and a spider queen lol

You should see them in EDF

If they were this big irl, we'd be beyond fucked

It's always semi-disturbing when the ant grabs you and stabs you through the abdomen (And doesn't it pump you full of poison too? I only went down to that hellhole once.)

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They put big ant in dark souls 2

The bees are very much our support as well. Insect pollination dramatically increases the fertility of many fruits and vegetables we take for granted. Without bees and other pollinators, the plant-based part of our diet would be limited mostly to crops that can be pollinated abiotically, e.g., wind-pollinated cereals and legumes.

Yeah, it would be nice to see a video on one of the few times a human is the support class for another class.

Human support builds is a whole meta for sure if you were to cover it. Interesting to see new strats in the realm of niche co-op teams with porpoises and such, too in the future. seems like controlling coincidences to me.

It's a testament on how broken humans are that we support entire guilds of players just so we can have a few more materials in our crafting mini games. We're so dominant we can spend our entire lives only working on side quests and perfecting mini games, and if youre lucky and spawn in a good server you never have to even touch combat (I mean, at least after the PE section of the tutorial). I'm glad it lets players diversify their builds and opt into "suboptimal" builds. Adds flavor to the game.

Meanie!

so tell me how the fuck haven't you been banned from the ant servers yet ?

@@WHOARETHEPATRIOTS475 everybody who isn't a member of the colony has already been banned even before they were born, the access and IP to their servers are just weak and don't use encryption

That second thing sounds really cute, actually. You use your superior, well, everything, to pressure a smaller player into a situation that doesn't benefit you, but helps others. Even as a fellow human player, I'm constantly amazed at how broadly we apply our social skills, and how we use them for things that, even to other humans, seem pointless.

@@WHOARETHEPATRIOTS475 Anything gets through Ant servers because they don’t have any server protection lol. I’ve gotten so much EXP as a housecat main because of them.

I am a beekeeper and I approve this message

But as long as the bears are there to collect the protein, they won't mind chewing on a few carbs too.

@@Zak-cf2zp I'm a bearkeeper and I also approve this message

@@Zak-cf2zp You mean server owner?

Elliott Cooper, Wow! Bonus learning. Thank you.

Better nerf Irelia they said

earth 2 is my bet for the change

Humans are working on it... Insect population is in decline at lots of areas, especially bees.

well humans are wipin the bees so they might get a buff to keep up

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the same thing happenened to me

Agreed, in addition, how does one become a queen? Is there a dlc required?

Long story short, when your whole world concept is dictated primarily by what pheromones those around you are producing, one queen bee looks much like another. Can't have a new auntie queen hatched by our queen (at great calorific expense, I might add) just get immediately killed off by her own nieces on her way out of the hive, can we?

by getting more queens you also make your colony bigger, which makes survival even easier, which means more reproduction to your queen and you

I heard that one way of introducing a new, unrelated queen is in a special box with something sugary plugging the only opening big enough for a bee to get through (obv there are also air holes). At first they think she's an intruder, but the only way to reach her is to eat their way through the sugary stuff and that takes them long enough they'll get used to her smell in that time. Even knowing it's a pheromone thing, I still like to picture it as: Bees: WE SHALL NOT BE RULED BY A FOREIGN MONARCH! DEATH TO USURPERS! New queen: I'll let you eat cake. Bees: Yes, Your Majesty!

@@dbseamz Yes, we used these cages regularly to introduce new queens. It’s just fascinating that it still works even though the queen shares no genetic code with them.

I would also add that the average bee is probrably considerably more likely to meet a related queen than an unrelated one. So it is enough for the average bee to know to 'protect THE queen' in order to further their own genes.

There *is* a sub-tree to their normal high end damage tools that works extremely well, but the human playerbase has collectively agreed that they are a detriment to their society and are not to be used, even against eusocial insects.

@@senounatsuru6453 God, I hate the nuke exploit. Like, seriously, a bug so bad you shut down an *entire small server*?

@@Someone-sq8im yea SUPER broken aoe attack with insanely long lasting dot damage bro who's balancing this shit where are the devs ??

some very low tech human gear, like soap, works surprisingly well. And if all else fails, there are always flamethrowers. Insects are very weak to fire.

@@georgiishmakov9588 Unfortunately, humans that spec into the "pyromaniac" tree always end up banned from the server unless they take the "pyrotechnics" perk.

if bees are druids, parasitoid wasps are warlocks lmao

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tfw you're stunlocked for literally weeks

Aren't they called termites?

@@MrSpinachguy Sawflies aren't termites, termites are related to cockroaches and mantises.

@@AztecCroc I think if termites were carnivores, had armour, and heat resistant, they would be top tier

This is the most wholesome and agreeable chain of replies involving clarifying scientific or possibly-contentious information. Made my day and I got to learn a couple facts at the same time. Thank you 👏🏻 carry on 😅

Sawflies are only good at one thing: their larval forms tripping up entomology majors on their ID tests

It already is except we're stuck maining humans.

Carpenter bees are super common in my server. More so than bumble bees.

Bruh, bees are so weak alone, idk why they separated from the hive in the first place.

@@TheAlienPoison G I T G U D

They didn't separate from their hive, the honeybee it's rare because they made a hive. Because is easy to harvest that honey, we started to move those bees around.

I'll one up you: most people actually HAVE seen solitary bees. They just can't be bothered to look more than a second and realize it's different