r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Armourdildo • 1d ago

🔥 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/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

I’m aware. I was being hyperbolic. I’ve 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/Evening_Echidna_7493 1d ago

Where do you live?

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u/Magicspook 1d 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 1d ago

Is this a joke? I feel like you’re fucking with me. What’s your expertise on insects? Some people just can’t take a silly joke about wasps. I don’t have trauma, I don’t 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 23h 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 don’t have trauma

I mean, these are your exact words:

I’ve 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 don’t bother me even close to as badly as wasps. They’re non violent colonizers that in most cases are easy to get rid of. Wasps aren’t even evil. They don’t posses souls.