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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Like most others I have not read the article. But someone please answer me this:

If the bees fell asleep, then why didn't the fire kill them? I can accept that insects don't have lungs, I mean some people are doing well without hearts... but am I supposed to accept that bees are also immune to fire damage?

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[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why doesn't the damaging and hot particulate matter in smoke do any harm to or otherwise clog up their spiracles like it does to the inner lining of lungs? I gather lungs are wet and also very delicate, but if they're directly oxygenating their organs through these spiracles eventually it must get to somewhere wet and delicate for the smoke to get in and potentially harm.

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[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

am i the only one who notices that this logic makes no sense? it doesnt matter that they have no lungs, they still are susceptible to both heat and airborn toxins, they perform gas exchange. They lived because the heat and smoke were below lethal toxic levels for them.

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I remember the first time I heard bugs dont have lungs. Like wtf? Just no internal ventilation pumping air as needed. Seems wierd but also thx God. They are annoying enough.

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[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

They breathe their own farts. Well.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You wouldn't not have a car.

You wouldn't not have a handbag.

You wouldn't not have a television.

You wouldn't not have lungs.

Lacking lungs is not having them.

Not having lungs is against the law.

Lunglessness, it's a crime.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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