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 @futurebird @gavi and the infamous Cow Killer Ant, which is a wingless wasp with a notoriously painful sting  @futurebird @gavi THEY ARE THEY ARE SO FLUFFY AND PRETTY AND LOOK NICE TO PET BUT YOU SHOULDN'T    It's a kind of stridulation. A warning sound. I have not found any recordings of it (they are woefully understudied) but it's probably similar to this: There are several ants who can squeak too. It's not typical. They tend to be more basal things like Dinoponera I think. Dinoponera are very "waspy"  Yes. But there are a number of wingless wasps that have "ant" in their common name. And of course all ants *are* wasps.  @futurebird @tuban_muzuru @gavi The common ancestor of bees, ants and other wasps absolutely had wings. And that's why queen ants tend to nearly always have wings, as do most of the male wingless wasps.   @tuban_muzuru @futurebird @gavi would you like to play a taxonomy game? https://metazooa.com/ @gavi I was trying not to be too obvious about making things about ants again... thought "wingless wasp" was a nice way to get around that... I I guess it didn't really work. @futurebird @gavi if you wanted to not be obvious about making things about ants, you might want to post from an alt⦠|
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Yes. They are more typically called ants. Though there are also a few wingless wasps that are NOT ants. For example: Myrmilloides grandiceps who is very cute, but can also sting and she is a parasite of bees.