On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
We have gismu for "ant" and "bee/wasp". Both ants and bees are Aculeata,
hymenopterans with stingers (not all Aculeata actually sting). Aculeata
contains three superfamilies: Apoidea (bees and sphecoid wasps), Chrysidoidea
(more wasps), and Vespoidea (more wasps and ants). I've thought of using
"rulbi'e" to distinguish bees, but there are non-bee wasps which pollinate
flowers, such as fig wasps.
That would be(e) a problem because "bi'e" is the rafsi for brife, not bifce...
The other suborder of Hymenoptera is Symphyta, which don't have a wasp waist.
They are called sawflies; their larvae look like caterpillars, except that they
don't have a gap between prolegs and legs. What should we call them in Lojban?
tsubifce or planybifce?
--gejyspa