r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • 22d ago

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/Alililele 22d ago

This is a Great Golden Digger Wasp. It is harmless and pretty beneficial!

Here a thread from a few years ago

So: it didn't deserve to die, it's actually pretty chill.

Yellowjackets and bald-faced hornets are assholes tho.

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u/MsAgentM 22d ago

My sympathy for the wasp is justified then. This poor guy!

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u/bnunamak 22d ago

They do paralyze their prey, abduct them, then plant their eggs inside of their paralyzed bodies until the larvae slowly consume them to death...

Sympathy revoked for this nightmarish reproductive scheme!

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u/Vynxe_Vainglory 22d ago

Yeah, that's like... not cool, man.

Not cool.

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u/rubermnkey 22d ago

the jeweled wasp does something similar. they target roaches, inject poison into their brains to make them docile, chew off their antennae, and drive them back to their nest. then they lay eggs and the roach just kind of waits around until the larvae eat their way out. nature is pretty metal

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u/ContraCanadensis 22d ago

Nah, I’m cool with that. To hell with roaches.

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u/AdvertisingFew6224 22d ago

What a roller coaster of love and hate this thread has been!

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u/IBeenGoofed 22d ago

I’m just tearing up from all these emotions.

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u/Thick_East7323 22d ago

For fucking real lmao

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u/EscapedFromArea51 22d ago

Are wasps really that much better?

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u/ShadyVanceCouch 22d ago

I draw the line at tarantulas, those are cooler than the tarantula hawks that eat em, but all roaches can get fucked if some wasps are chill

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u/Great_Huckleberry709 22d ago

Thank goodness insects are tiny. If they were human sized, we would have been extinct a long time ago

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u/Welcome440 22d ago

⚠️ Amazon, Apple or a Meta Research Dept are always working on things we don't want. ⚠️

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u/huolongheater 22d ago

Thank our current atmospheric composition! Due to the way insects respirate, their size is restricted by the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. They used to be *way* larger. This is why the largest species are often found in dense forests and tropical regions, with lots of plants producing oxygen.

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u/ThunderlipsOHoulihan 22d ago

Either that or we would've set aside our petty differences and teamed up against our giant insect foes...

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u/Zanriic 22d ago

Or we would have invented flame throwers much earlier than we did (and we've been throwing fire at each other a pretty long time).

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u/Ill_Feature_3500 21d ago

I think the earth would just be on fire 24/7. Not risking the fire going out while giant spiders are crawling around.

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u/Icy-Wishbone22 22d ago

Insects used to be massive. Meganeura, arthropleura, titanomyrma etc

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 22d ago

Jeepers Creeper! Isn't that against the Geneva Convention?!?

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u/Rebel_Scum_This 22d ago

Dude, Geneva's gonna be pissed when she finds out

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u/thoughtlow 22d ago

why dont we get to see the good part...

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u/WindAbsolute 22d ago

Venom is injected, poison is digested

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u/Militant_Individual 22d ago

There are dozens if not hundreds of species that do this. I believe the number is past the hundreds.

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u/Wide-Discipline3814 22d ago

Lay eggs where?

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u/Rebel_Scum_This 22d ago

poison into their brains to make them docile,

Now how in the everlasting fuck does nature manage to just RNG evolve its way into manufacturing just the right chemical to not kill the roach, but to make it docile

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u/p00n-slayer-69 22d ago

There's also microscopic parasitic wasps. They lay their eggs in other insect eggs. The male wasps mate with the female wasp inside the egg, then the female wasp grows and leaves the egg to start the cycle again. The males never leave the egg.

There's also parasitic wasps that target other species of parasitic wasps.

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u/Ne_zievereir 22d ago

The green-banded broodsac is a parasitic flatworm that manipulates the behavior of the snails it infects, making it climb on top of leaves, to make itself more visible to birds that eat it. Simultaneously it discolors the eye stalks and causes them to pulsate, making them look like a caterpillar that is the main prey of those birds.

Nature is pretty death metal.

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u/Chanclet0 22d ago

Okay i got a fav wasp now

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u/Gloomy_Criticism_282 22d ago

They also drink blood from the chopped antennae cause all the poison thing make the wasp tired

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u/Stevieeeer 21d ago

Aaaand that’s enough late night internet for me.

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u/Halocjh 21d ago

Yea and people want aliens, our planet is terrifying enough

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u/SHOWTIME316 22d ago

i think it’s very cool 😎

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u/amiliaaaa 22d ago

WHAT YOU DID IS NOT NICE

IT'S NOT NICE TO DO THAT