Ants Got Tired of Being Wasps i dunno? 240405

I think flying is pretty cool, but the ants went a different route.

https://youtu.be/G6RuBz6se-E

Ants and Wasps are pretty closely related. Makes sense, they look kinda the same. They both very much
enjoy biting and stinging me. Turns out, one evolved from the other, but how that went is what
suprised me - and maybe you too.

Wasps have been around since the Jurassic period so they got to hang out with like brachiosaurs.
About 100 million years ago, the first ants showed up.

So one day a wasp was like: as a species we`ve learned how to fly, how to sting... how about we
stop doing the flying thing and sting stuff from the ground.

Why? I dunno. Obviously there was some advantage, but I couldn`t tell you what. It worked, because
today ants have a greater biomass than all mammals and birds combined.