Ahem… Bees sting using a modified ovipositor, the egg laying organ that doesn’t exist in mammals. Insects reproductive systems are very different from mammals, so there isn’t a part analogous to a vagina.
Fun fact, chickens are not insects! Honeybee queens and many other female insects have sperm storage organs that they use to fertilize their eggs internally.
Bees are nature’s ultimate girlbosses. The queen doesn’t have a harem of males constantly railing her to maintain the hive. She just preserves the sperm to maintain a supply so the males can be safely eliminated. Hives are an girl only society, and the queen won’t even lay a male egg until they are needed.
Also insects have an anus. Not analogous to a bird’s cloaca.
The separation between vertebrates and invertebrates is so ancient it predates the development of any organ.
Analogous structures reefers to similar structures that do similar things which evolved independently.
For example a dolphin fin and a fish fin are analogous, even though they evolved completely independently.
An insect anus, would be analogous to ours, even though evolutionarily speaking Our mouth is their anus:
I think you’re thinking of homologous structures. Like a bird wing/human arm/horse front limb/dolphin fin are all homologous but have very distinct functions. Which would not apply between vertebrates and invertebrates given we diverged when we were a bunch of cells. (there’s still homologies, but mostly on the cellular/subcellular level).
Bees and ant are absolutely amazing creatures, we just discovered an ant species that can clone another species.
Ahem… Bees sting using a modified ovipositor, the egg laying organ that doesn’t exist in mammals. Insects reproductive systems are very different from mammals, so there isn’t a part analogous to a vagina.
if we get technical, you are 100% correct.
however it isn’t completely wrong to consider the ovipositior and a vertebrate vagina as analogous.
Do you lay eggs, mam?
I got the other pipework.
But, menstruation does that.
and most vertebrates do lay eggs thru their vagina, even if the opening is within the cloaca.
Fun fact, chickens are not insects! Honeybee queens and many other female insects have sperm storage organs that they use to fertilize their eggs internally.
Bees are nature’s ultimate girlbosses. The queen doesn’t have a harem of males constantly railing her to maintain the hive. She just preserves the sperm to maintain a supply so the males can be safely eliminated. Hives are an girl only society, and the queen won’t even lay a male egg until they are needed.
Also insects have an anus. Not analogous to a bird’s cloaca.
The separation between vertebrates and invertebrates is so ancient it predates the development of any organ.
Analogous structures reefers to similar structures that do similar things which evolved independently.
For example a dolphin fin and a fish fin are analogous, even though they evolved completely independently.
An insect anus, would be analogous to ours, even though evolutionarily speaking Our mouth is their anus:
I think you’re thinking of homologous structures. Like a bird wing/human arm/horse front limb/dolphin fin are all homologous but have very distinct functions. Which would not apply between vertebrates and invertebrates given we diverged when we were a bunch of cells. (there’s still homologies, but mostly on the cellular/subcellular level).
Bees and ant are absolutely amazing creatures, we just discovered an ant species that can clone another species.
someday I will learn words but not during this specific period of light.
I have a PhD in biology, and love the chance to talk about it. I really enjoyed this conversation.
and the most important part, is that bees are amazing