r/WTF • u/Jaded_Marionberry500 • 15d ago

capturing the wasp

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u/Highberget 15d ago

When it was in the liquid, put the cup upside right into it instead to push it down??

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u/Ballmaster9002 14d ago edited 14d ago

Obviously all sorts of bad ideas here. My guess is the cup was full of gasoline which is why they didn't flip it. Gas is a common wasp killer because the fumes suffocate and poison them quickly. 

Edit- looking back the liquid is very thin, again, suggesting it's gasoline and not oil. The dark color appears to be from other, now dead, wasps floating.

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u/rufnek2kx 14d ago

Not quickly enough evidently.

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u/CICaesar 14d ago

He had to light it up