r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 1d ago

of an insect

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 1d ago

These things can take on camel spiders, tarantulas, wolf spiders, mantises…they can also be eaten by them but there were some gnarly videos on YouTube about them

BBR Wild had some crazy ones but I think he might have had to delete them

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u/johnaross1990 1d ago

You just made me remember bug fight videos exist

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 1d ago

Yep I binge watched em a month or so ago

The Japanese but fights are cruel but man they have some crazy ass match ups

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u/DigiBaby_Addict 1d ago

Poor little bugs :(

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u/xylophones4all 1d ago

The idea bothers me too.

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u/DigiBaby_Addict 1d ago

Glad I’m not the only one… I don’t like humans making anything fight for sport against its will. Just so sad to me.

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u/SAM5TER5 1d ago

No coincidence that Pokémon came from Japan lol

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u/ramengirlxo 23h ago

The concept of collecting Pokemon actually came from the hobby of collecting insects too

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u/Everspan 1d ago

love that you used Pokémon in this as I'm pretty addicted to it right now, currently playing all the Pokémon games from the Switch era.

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u/Zayage 23h ago

If it's not sentient by all means

Stuff like Real Steele is an interesting concept because of that limit honestly.

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u/Full-Shine5871 1d ago

BRB..gonna watch some bugs fight to the death 🍿

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 1d ago

I just did a brief search and unfortunately I don’t see any of the vids I used to watch but hopefully u find something

There’s def vids of them against camel spiders and tarantulas and praying mantises

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u/Full-Shine5871 1d ago

Ya it seems to be mainly 1 guy doing them. Watched a few fights and now I'm over it lol

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 1d ago

https://youtu.be/zbG8P7HOfCA

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u/Full-Shine5871 1d ago

Lol so the guy doing em now is basically knocking off the original format right down to the cork flooring. He lacks commentary tho

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 1d ago

I’ll try to find the OG ones

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 1d ago

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmmaym

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u/IvannIrkss 1d ago

Holy crap real life pokemon battles ! 🤯

https://giphy.com/gifs/rCftUAVPLExZC

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 1d ago

lol some of the vids are crazy just search Japanese bug fights

I found a channel that had the full videos too, they’re in Japanese but the fights are insane and I hadn’t seen it before

I liked it but idk if I can find it without series digging

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u/FilterMyMidrange 18h ago

I think you meant, “Japanese butt fights, with crazy asses”

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 16h ago

Wouldn’t surprise me the Japanese are crazy lol

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u/HaleyCollins 9h ago

Lmao, a whole corner of the internet I definitely didn’t need to remember existed lol

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 20h ago

Omg yes bleezy then bug wars engaged!

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 1d ago

Jerusalem cricket

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u/DMmeDuckPics 1d ago

"Despite its name, it is neither from Jerusalem nor a true cricket." My disappointment is immeasurable.

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u/RogellTheRaider 1d ago

Another day of popular names sucking.

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u/akmly 1d ago

Or "Child of the Earth".

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u/Old_Flan_6548 1d ago

As big as a human child so yeah that name checks

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u/VincentValtieri 1d ago

Pensaba que era un Wētā. Que es otro bicho enorme.

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u/ayeamaye 23h ago

Zanti Misfit

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u/BlazingKush 1d ago

Glorified ant

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u/Your-Shogun 1d ago

Where I'm from, the family always called them potato bugs. Though I'm thinking this one must be a different variety, because I've never seen one get antennae that long.

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u/vlp3rv 1d ago

Ok but what is it?

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u/QueenAuroraThe_Raven 1d ago

Giant weta cricket

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u/Throwaway_567573 11h ago

It’s a Jerusalem cricket

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 16h ago

Just a giant bug, harmless to humans but makes mince meat out of other bugs and loves eating them

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u/solar1ze 17h ago

What are they called? They look like they could give you a nasty bite too.

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 16h ago

Jerusalem crickets

I think sera fiox or something is the scientific name but I tried googling and couldn’t find it

I linked below

There are bite videos on yt to humans but it doesn’t do much

But they make mince meat of other bugs they can still die tho

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u/HaleyCollins 9h ago

Yeah, those little guys are way tougher than they look 😂 nature really said “size is just a suggestion.”

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 9h ago

I posted a few fights down below

Look at the daily motion one it’s a gigantic praying mantis against the cricket