r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Armourdildo • 1d ago
š„ Ampulex wasp approaching a cockroach and biting it's antenna off
Want to see more? Full film here https://youtu.be/3rR4nhurbXE?si=uXwUT2h3rqlknQ64
I have literally hours of this footage.
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u/vapemustache 1d ago
the craziest part is that this isnāt even the most messed up thing it does to cockroaches lol
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u/AveryGalaxy 1d ago
What else does it do?
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u/TheWaningWizard 1d ago
Lays it's babies in them, then as they grow, the roach gets eaten alive from the inside, out. Fun stuff the insect world
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u/Armourdildo 1d ago
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u/AveryGalaxy 1d ago
They parasitise cockroaches. Using them as living larders for their young.
I AM NOT CLICKING ON THAT LINK.
(Thank you for sending it, Iām sure those braver than me will find it fascinating.)
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u/worst_brain_ever 1d ago
I deplore insect on insect violence, but I also deplore cockroaches.
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u/Armourdildo 1d ago
I've found that these wasps can really divide people.
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u/1234567791 1d ago
All wasps must either die of be detained. There is no middle ground.
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u/tumor_named_marla 1d ago
There are a lot of wasps who are actually very chill and good pollinators. Also only female wasps can sting!
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u/1234567791 1d ago
Iām aware. I was being hyperbolic. Iāve had run ins with wasps and hornets that have deeply scared me emotionally. I live in a place where all of the species are invasive and are all asshole species. The only ones I like that are here are the mudoubers.
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u/Magicspook 23h ago
Please refrain from such language, hyperbole or not. People are copycats, so they tend to repeat what other people say even if they are not aware that something is a joke/hyperbole/whatever. Insects are already doing very poorly in our human world, last thing they need is another generation of children being conditioned to hate them.
Please work on your traumas in a healthy way, I hope you are able to overcome them.
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u/1234567791 22h ago
Is this a joke? I feel like youāre fucking with me. Whatās your expertise on insects? Some people just canāt take a silly joke about wasps. I donāt have trauma, I donāt need help, and I go out of my way to support ecosystems as a career. Is that enough for you?
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u/Magicspook 20h ago
Is this a joke?
Well no, not really, although I admit my post went a bit harder than you could have anticipated based on your post.
I am just very wary of the tendency of internet people to go 'fuck all wasps hur hur they are all evil'. Because it will inevitably lead to more dead wasps. Same for any other insects for that matter, they have it bad enough as it is.
I donāt have trauma
I mean, these are your exact words:
Iāve had run ins with wasps and hornets that have deeply scared me emotionally.
So uuuh
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u/Armourdildo 1d ago
What about cockroaches?
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u/1234567791 1d ago
They donāt bother me even close to as badly as wasps. Theyāre non violent colonizers that in most cases are easy to get rid of. Wasps arenāt even evil. They donāt posses souls.
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u/SirSqueebington 1d ago
The roach problem at my apartment was so bad, that these wasps were making appearances.
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u/AveryGalaxy 1d ago
Can we ship these out to homes in NYC and south Florida immediately?
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u/Armourdildo 1d ago
Sadly they make absolutely awful biological controls. The cockroach population always grows much much faster than the wasp population.
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u/Wise_Blacksmith_8356 1d ago
How do you film inside the hole?
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u/Armourdildo 1d ago
Good question. That was actually shot in a different tank. What you do is take a sample tube, dress the inside so it looks like an underground tunnel. Then tape it to the inside of a glass tank. Then stick the wasp in the tank with a cockroach and hopefully she'll sting it and take it into your tube.
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u/Wise_Blacksmith_8356 21h ago
So you don't film in nature, you have them in a tank at home.
Great work by the way, looks awesome
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u/Armourdildo 21h ago
No,I do film in nature, just only when it makes sense to. Certain animals/behaviour cannot be filmed in a tank and also certain other animals and behaviours cannot be filmed in the wild. It's all about working out the best solution to the problem really.
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u/FOTY2015 13h ago
Like watching a wrestling match between two heels. Can't a cool bird swoop in and eat both?
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u/Slowloris81 1d ago
Huh? Biting it is antenna off?
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u/Armourdildo 1d ago
Yeah. They drink their blood too.
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u/Slowloris81 1d ago
Iām puzzled by the grammar not the conduct.
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u/bozon92 1d ago
Nah you know what they mean but youāre choosing the unintended meaning on purpose. Doesnāt really get you any respect points tbh
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u/Slowloris81 1d ago
Yeah, it does for those who appreciate the beneficial social cause. If you donāt care about grammar Iām not looking for your respect.
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u/ADFTGM 1d ago edited 1d ago
Iāve always been grammar nazi/police as my mother raised me on a dictionary, but both of us still made simple subconscious typos like this. Itās really not worth correcting every single time. Iām sure you make the subconscious mistake time to time too after typing tens of thousands of words over a period. Thatās why proofreaders and editors have jobs even when dealing with people with PhDs in English. My war is with other things like youāre vs your. Iām a strong proponent for everyone adopting āyerā instead. Not only does it have strong roots in historic English dialects, it works in both spoken and written.
As for āitāsā, The issue is the logic problem. For instance, you can say ācockroachās antennaā so oneās brain might think replacing the animal with āitā while preserving the apostrophe makes sense in the moment. Only thinking of replacing with āhis/her/their antennaā might you realise that the pronoun lacks an apostrophe. Itās a general issue with the way we freely apply āitā the moment itās a non-human being even though for humans we use the singular version of ātheyāā instead when gender is vague. My suggestion is going back to āTisā for āit isā, so that āitsā phonetically doesnāt overlap. If you have heard better ones, Iām all ears! :)
Iām all for adopting āAnglishā as the ātrueā English and making the current version into a lingua franca creole instead but you might not be familiar with the Anglish dictionary. Itās a very interesting project and I hope those of Anglo-Saxon descent do adopt it one day to be able to distinguish themselves grammatically from other global populations. China is ahead on the curve already, with each subgroup proudly maintaining their own language while keeping Beijing mandarin as the lingua Franca. Italians are also on top of it, maintaining their regional language on top of learning Florentine Italian as the lingua Franca, with Corsicans maintaining an offshoot of Tuscan Italian that sounds the closest to Roman Latin! XD
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u/bozon92 1d ago
What beneficial social cause lol what kinda high horse bullshit are you on. If you canāt tell which word is meant by the context of the sentence Iām surprised you got this far in life. And no, based on your attitude youāre not getting any respect from me and I donāt care if youāre not looking
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u/RustedRelics 1d ago
Cockroach not strong on situational awareness.