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> Wallace's giant bee (Megachile pluto), which can reach four times the size of a honeybee Something is weird. They head the article with a big image captioned "Wallace's giant bee in comparison with a honeybee"; it shows the honeybee as being much less than a quarter the size of the giant bee.
To bee or not to bee
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Do you really think we can create a greater extinction event than the ones the insects have survived? And yes, that includes some serious climate changes.
All-out nuclear war?
Nuclear war would suck for people but life on earth and a lot of the life on it would be just fine.
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Do you really think we can create a greater extinction event than the ones the insects have survived? And yes, that includes some serious climate changes.
All-out nuclear war?
> Wallace's giant bee (Megachile pluto), which can reach four times the size of a honeybee Something is weird. They head the article with a big image captioned "Wallace's giant bee in comparison with a honeybee"; it shows the honeybee as being much less than a quarter the size of the giant bee.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
All-out nuclear war?
A nuclear war can only be fought to the point where nobody has the capacity to keep fighting. You can't actually obliterate the planet. The global climate would be altered but it wouldn't be close to the worst the earth has seen. Insects, plants, rodents, and humans will all almost certainly survive a nuclear war. Animals in the wild are largely unaffected by high levels of background radiation because they don't liv…
> Wallace's giant bee (Megachile pluto), which can reach four times the size of a honeybee Something is weird. They head the article with a big image captioned "Wallace's giant bee in comparison with a honeybee"; it shows the honeybee as being much less than a quarter the size of the giant bee.
It looks about 4 times its length.
Thanks, I hate it. :)