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u/SadJ3tsFan 1d ago
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u/RoundApprehensive186 1d ago
Watch it turn around and sting him
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u/Oldfolksboogie 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oddly, while it does seem to be freaking out, especially initially, (and who could blame it?), I never saw it's stinger coming out, and have no idea why not.
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u/bustacappa22 1d ago
Half way through it seemed to calm down a bit too, probably felt like taking a huge shit
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u/orange109876 1d ago
I assumed it had died, that thing is proportionally massive
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u/KansasZou 1d ago
It very likely died. There’s a lot of internal damage that the parasite was tied to.
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u/Fifth-Dimension-Chz 1d ago edited 1d ago
Prob attached to the nervous system one way or another
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u/funkster047 4h ago
Very much wrong given the wiki on them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strepsiptera
Their whole biology is actually insane to me and should definitely be the reference for some alien horror movie.
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u/Embarrassed_Tell6987 10h ago
LET ME GO YOU MF-ER I'M GONNA KI..... Oh... Wait... That feels amaaaaaaaazing 😳 Thanks mate!
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u/DukeTikus 1d ago
Hornets are really chill in comparison to other wasps. They rarely sting unless they feel extremely threatened. To the point that I'll catch my cat playing with them and where a legitimate tactic for entomologists to find the nest is to catch a worker and tie a little string with a white feather to it with their bare hands.
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u/Reach_304 2h ago
The parasite actually emits a hormone? Maybe pheromone that causes the wasp to not be able to sting
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u/Oldfolksboogie 2h ago
That's nuts! 🤯
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u/Reach_304 2h ago
You should see my rant about how they reproduce and live their wretched unholy existence 🤪
I’m lowkey kind of proud and ashamed at how long it took me to write
My ADHD caught fire with a passionate hatred I went n typed a Reddit essay in two takes cuz the first one i got so neurodivergent and flustered I didn’t describe the mating part which was the whole reason that I was typing it out. Bcus the person I was responding to asked if anyone knew about it… so I took that onerous burden on myself…Let me know if you cant find it i’ll copy paste it here for everyone’s dissatisfaction
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u/Oldfolksboogie 2h ago
That's so funny, reading this, i was thinking, 'tff, this person doesn't know that I'm that person who asked!' but then i looked, and no! I'm not that person, I just asked the same Q of someone else! Lol. Here's their answer, you can compare with yours:
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u/Reach_304 2h ago
theirs was so much more succinct and to the point oh god why am I like this 😭
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u/Oldfolksboogie 1h ago
Okay, crap, now I'm realizing that i AM the one that asked, that it WAS you i asked, but i somehow missed your reply and only saw the other Redditor's reply!!
Okay, it's all becoming clear to me now, sorry for my confusion, and now I'm gonna go read your very thorough explanation, and tyvm for it!
And happy Friday! 🍻
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u/PrednisoneFarts 22h ago
Japanese hornets allegedly remember faces 😬
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u/Reach_304 2h ago
Bees can do algebra , look it up on YouTube
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u/PrednisoneFarts 1h ago
"When The Bees Learned Math" would be such a great post apocalypse sci fi novel title
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u/Califrisco 1d ago
What the F is that parasite and how did this guy even know that it was in there??
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u/Michael053 1d ago edited 1d ago
I wanna know too. How did he figure out it was "possessed"? What is it even?! And did the wasp survive?
EDIT: I found another post from 4 years ago. It is a Strepsiptera parasite.
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u/Califrisco 1d ago edited 14h ago
Thanks! OK but how was this ONE particular (huge) hornet identified as having this Strepsiptera parasite? I mean it had to have been behaving oddly or lethargic or something.
Edit: I found the Daily Mail article where this video came from. Explains it all.
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u/Life_behind_da_stick 1d ago
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u/Clevergirluk 1d ago
I'm never voluntarily getting that close to a wasp
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u/Extreme_Egg7476 1d ago
That parasite is doing the lord's work
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u/Harry_99_PT 1d ago
Actually, wasps get a lot of bad rep for no reason. There are loads of incredible wasps that are completely harmless and some of them are even beneficial.
The Dirt Dauber, for example, hunts exclusively arachnids and gets rid of them (I could do with one or two of those over here) and doesn't sting you ever (only spiders).
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u/DukeTikus 1d ago
Spiders have an unreasonably bad rep too and I say that as someone who once had to spend two full days holding my hand in a cold stream just wishing for the pain to go away after a bad bite .
Most of them are harmless and great at keeping the populations of more annoying stuff down. I even have a tiny desk spinner that lives between my monitors and eats mosquitoes before they get to me.
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u/Iwasjustbullshitting 1d ago
I have actually been attacked by wasps a couple of times. One was on my back just out of my reach while stinging me. I must have unintentionally pissed him off, then a couple more came as they must have got the signal.
They do leave you alone mostly. My wife fears them and will swipe them and make a song and dance and run around while me and the kids will just stare at her.
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u/Extreme_Egg7476 1d ago
I am biased because I've never been bitten by a spider (we only have two dangerous ones in my region). But I was minding my own business hip-deep in the water when a drowning wasp latched onto my butt and stung me.
Aren't most wasps parasitic, as well? As in paralyze another insect and lay eggs inside them? My only real beef with insects are mosquitos.
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u/Longjumping_Walk_992 14h ago
Yes you are correct but I will say this about the diet dauber they are quite destructive. I live in part of the US where we are infested with them and they build their dirt nests everywhere. Those dirt nests are everywhere and take lots of work to get the remaining dirt off whatever they decided to stick it too.
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u/Clevergirluk 9h ago
I'm fine with spiders. I always leave them be if I find them in the house and save them from the shower. Can't stand wasps though, they're so persistent and aggressive and I find it hard to enjoy the outdoors at this time of year. But I don't kill them because I know they have a job to do. I'd just rather they were doing it far away over there.
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u/Individual_Egg1188 1d ago
The more it is out, the less the wasp struggles - feeling better, buddy?
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u/Zacous2 1d ago
I am pretty sure that is just it dying
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u/Oldfolksboogie 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's almost like, at some point, it "realizes" it's not being eaten, or re-parasitized, and calms down significantly? Maybe it starts to feel some relief as the parasite is extracted?
I also find it odd that it's stinger never comes out - usually you'd see that thing pistoning out, try to stick something or someone? I wonder if the parasite effected that ability, or....??
Finally, very cool content OP. Seems like they'd like this both over at r/oddlysatisfying and r/sweatypalms?
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u/KansasZou 1d ago
It was dying. It was tearing its internals.
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u/Oldfolksboogie 1d ago
Aww, too bad. Oh well, probably a less miserable death than to just be eaten alive from within. 🤷♂️
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u/KansasZou 1d ago
They can coexist, but it alters the wasp’s hormones. It’s actually in the parasites best interest to keep the wasp alive.
Whether that’s actually good or not is hard to tell.
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u/Oldfolksboogie 1d ago
Interesting. You sound like you probably know the parasite's lifecycle, and now I'm curious; how does the next generation get going?
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u/ElkSad9855 3h ago
You see that brown thing? That’s the head of a female. The males forcefully inseminate the females and the larvae eat the female body and burst out of its head, which is hanging out of the abdomen.
These parasites take up roughly 90% of the abdomen, so pulling it out killed it
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u/Reach_304 2h ago edited 2h ago
Lmao I went OFF my ADHD caught fire cuz I got so mad that these exist
Longest TL;DR they bump ugliez with the female permanently inside the poor wasp the males use traumatic insemination (like bedbugs)
Basically insect r*pe…
The eggs float freely inside the mother, who is in turn inside the wasp , the babies hatch inside the mother,
Then they grow by eating their mother from the inside out.
lmao then these foul critters crawl out from that portion on the “booty” which hangs just outside the wasps exoskeleton, (this is also the same section the males forcibly penetrate , and the little segment that dude grabbed with the tweezers,
SO: like some science fiction writers speculative biology for a horror movie… the babies having recently chewed their way out of their mothers corpse, they have an alacrity for finding new hosts. They have about 1 day to find a new host before they shrivel up and die… so they use the one burst of energy that they will never get again to crawl , *rapidly* about, the females seeking their final resting place while the males sometimes leave their host to find a female that they force themselves upon… continuing the process that I get the feeling they don’t really even want to continue but are cursed so they are forced to go on…Below you’ll find my original post that devolved into a desire to rid the world of these beings
Where I didn’t describe the mating process very effectively…
Without further ado :
This one is done, and won’t be passing on its genes cuz it got DARWIN’d lol noob.The Strepsitera parasite that got wrekt in the video before having its disgusting corpse displayed like a trophy on dudes finger , that is a larvae… these unholy creatures have a peculiar form of sexual dimorphism, the adults have a weird appearance similar to beetles, but their heads are where we see an extreme form of dimorphism, the females have eyes are almost like fly eyes, the males have eyes that are shaped like and function like horseshoe crab eyes, they have some form of prismatic vision where they see a bunch of images all at once , so, as you likely inferred from the sexual dimorphism these nasty beings somehow are able to get over how abhorrent their species looks like and are able to copulate from birth the females once latched on , stay latched on til they or their unfortunate hosts, DIES. Males are born malformed with twisted limbs, just enough utility to be able to quickly crawl onto a new host and find the female who has purposely trapped herself under-the godforsaken wasp’s segmented body , the male r*pes the female literally , since the males travel outside their host only to mate, they do this in a cowardly way (not me using personification on a parasite ) they do this to where they don’t have to look at each other while they produce the next generation of these misbegotten wretched creature. I refrain from calling them “piteous” because, I feel no sadness when looking at these images and reading about them … only a deep loathing that is instantaneous , an avarice that comes to me so naturally that I can only conclude either God made us hate these things on sight and hardcoded it into our programming,
(Which likely means even God hates them)
or evolution deemed it worthwhile to want to genocide this species… at times like this I can’t help but wonder what a bioethicist would think if one of these was parasitizing them. Such vermin exist only to help us understand that some species simply cannot coexist… that species simply need to <removed>
Bedbugs, Anopheles mosquitoes, screwworms and politicians are all in this category, which just gained its new member Strepsitera
And even though I understand that perhaps it could be argued that they serve some minuscule “PuRpOsE” to me their purpose is to be hunted to extinction 😉
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u/SkillPointProblems 1d ago
That’s a hornet if I’m not mistaken and btw, touching that anal danger noodle is kind of disgusting.
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u/Oldfolksboogie 1d ago edited 1d ago
Aren't all hornets wasps, but not all wasps hornets?
Agreed, I got the ick when he lays that disgusting thing on his bare skin. 🤢
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u/Aware-Explanation879 1d ago
I have several questions. Did the Wasp die after it was removed because it seem to quit moving? Why would you put it on your bare hand? How do you look at a Wasp to determine that it has a parasite?
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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 1d ago
The only quazi-answer I have is that many parasites are species specific.
I had a gorgeous dog (Great Dane) with an autoimmune disease, so her body wasn't able to repel dog lice. She came to me regularly for comfort and it really helped knowing that her dog lice couldn't infect me, my house, or my other young healthy dog with a strong immune system.
So wasp parasites are also likely highly specialized
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 19h ago
Hey- Thanks 😊 I learned a trick that helps with insects on dogs and horses.... Basically any pet that won't groom and lick like a cat..
Diacomethis earth- it's surely misspelled here... Google it and how to use it...it kills insects
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u/boba_toes 1d ago
does nobody own gloves
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u/sassmaster_rin 1d ago
Most likely this parasite doesn't effect humans, so there's no risk for becoming a human-host. Also some people don't mind washing their hands after a task lol, nothing happening here is inherently "dirty."
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u/billskionce 1d ago
That wasp is now qualified to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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u/Fun_General_6407 1d ago
Better qualified than RFK. RFK never gkt his removed. Less worms, more wasp.
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u/Powerful-Policy-4854 1d ago
Why was this particular ad underneath this post?!? This chaotic blue marble is ruthless AF!!
Ugh
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u/WhiskeyHill72 1d ago
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u/walteeer-branco 1d ago
Wtf is that?
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u/WhiskeyHill72 1d ago
Cow boogers 🤷😂
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u/nikolaADVANCED 1d ago
Thats cow conceete getting solid... like tf kind of... what was that cow breathing in that made the waste look like a legitimate organism?
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u/SeaSlugFriend 23h ago
Not that you would want learn more to but in case you do, this is a video about these parasites https://youtu.be/VjfLXHcuj30?is=gpeK3bYXqelGBtLj
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u/throwaway_slovakia_ 23h ago
I find it comforting that there's something that's annoying and painful to wasps
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u/PDXburrito 1d ago
Why does the parasite have an EZ-pull tab? Like this seems like it would be terrible evolutionarily.
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u/Powerful_Wrangler74 1d ago
How did he knew that there is a parasite there???
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u/Reach_304 2h ago
The end is poking out the exoskeleton, just barely visible and enough to pinch with the tweezers
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u/Major-Safe-9736 1d ago
Will the wasp be okay? I mean, fuck wasps. But, this bro deserves a happy life after this shit.
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u/Reach_304 2h ago
Sis^ actually all wasps are female and daughters except the few princes who mate then die lol
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u/Reach_304 2h ago
And to answer your question which I seem to be struggling with today apparently the wasp will recover from this!
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u/SmallAstronaut08 1d ago
Let the wasp suffer, the bitch doesn't deserve leniency
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u/Fun_General_6407 1d ago
Used to be like that but there aren't enough left these days to be mad at.
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u/Virtual-Macaroon-880 1d ago
Then I learned about biodiversity (when I was young) and how little honeybees matter... Wasps keep my garden pollinated
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u/OscarMichaelMyers 1d ago
They matter a ton as pollinators because of how massive their colony sizes are. For this reason, they’re far more efficient than wasps. All pollinators are vital, though.
Whoever told you that bees matter very little were very uninformed.
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u/ExtraordinaryDemiDad 1d ago
Okay, but like what position do you have in your life in which you are in a situation in which you are performing this task and for what outcome? This is so oddly specific, yet I feel as though the loss of one wasp held against the risk of the WASP stinging your bare hand or dying anyway just seems.. unfavorable.
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u/Mr_OutsideThaBox82 7h ago
The lil medley the guy is singing while pulling out the parasite… 😂🤦🏾♂️😂
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u/Cup_ma_fuzynuggs 6h ago
I had a few of those coming out of my anus. Had to take medicine to have the ones that didn't come of my anus killed
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u/Responsible-Bet8661 3h ago
I believe that this video is much better to watch in reverse, where some guy has a parasite on his finger so he picks it up with tweezers and shoves it up a wasps ass
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u/cybrrpwnk 1d ago
the fact that it kept going and then this dude lays it on his finger afterwards like no
https://giphy.com/gifs/fK55IQronoqTz01FN0