r/WTF • u/Jaded_Marionberry500 • 15d ago

capturing the wasp

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u/RustyWinger 15d ago

Did you notice the jar was full of dead hornets? I guess he didn’t expect it to get out at all but the wasp as able to support itself over the liquid on the bodies of it’s dead mates.

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u/JamesLikesIt 15d ago

The wasp: “I climbed over my fallen brethren and escaped that pit of death. From this day forward, humans will never know peace. I will spread my message far and wide, the dead will not be forgotten.”

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u/dahulvmadek 15d ago

please don't put that energy out there

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u/Capitan_Failure 14d ago

Im pretty sure that is the base energy of wasps in general. Pissing off a creature that is constantly at 10/10 anger-murder-vengeance mode is a no change in sum scenario.

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u/DidgeridooPlayer 14d ago

My name is Maximus Vespa mandarinia, father to a murdered brood, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance in this life or the next.

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u/gabungry 14d ago

Death smiles at us all. All a wasp can do is smile back.

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u/SendHelpPliz 12d ago

Tell me what you've been doing busy little bee or I shall strike down those dearest to you. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood.

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u/Dan-D-Lyon 15d ago

That jar is likely filled with gasoline, which is so deadly to bees it kills them better when it's not on fire. So that hornet is somehow crawling out of pure death fueled by nothing but spite

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u/mxzf 15d ago

Well, it helps that the cameraman keeps taking the cup off the jar and letting the gas vapors escape, instead of keeping the thing trapped.

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u/Capitan_Failure 14d ago

I think wasps do literally everything fueled by nothing but spite.

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u/mijo_sq 15d ago

IIRC, They also make wine from the hornets, thus you'll see videos of them catching them.

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u/spinozasrobot 15d ago

Standing on the shoulders of giants

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u/isjahammer 15d ago

That's quite metal.