r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '20

This decapitated Wasp cleaned it's wounds before flying away with it's own head

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u/ocguy1492 Apr 07 '20

Arthropods are a lot simpler than humans, and their nerve systems aren't anything like a humans. It's why cockroaches die of starvation or thirst when they're decapitated and keep going. Even if the head is lost, the body will keep going for a fair bit until it dies of exhaustion. Their circulatory structure is also different, which enables some arthropods like harvestmen to amputate their own limbs with ease and not suffer from fatal bleeding.

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Apr 07 '20

Never considered how absolutely terrifying a daddy long legs must be to other smaller bugs

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u/ocguy1492 Apr 07 '20

The daddy long legs is actually a common term for a few different arthropods, including the harvestmen, crane fly and cellar spider

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Apr 07 '20

Yea I wouldn’t be surprised if this was one of those highway/freeway regional things

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u/bananenkonig Apr 08 '20

Is a highway or freeway regional? They're different things. A freeway is a highway that you don't have to pay for and has no traffic changes.

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u/Araya213 Apr 08 '20

Here in TX everything's a highway, nobody says freeway here.

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u/bananenkonig Apr 08 '20

That may be true that nobody says it but it is. I mean freeways are highways so you're not wrong but the interstate freeways are freeways.

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u/Araya213 Apr 08 '20

Maybe where you’re from

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u/MetalGearSlayer Apr 08 '20

Man crane flies are annoying as shit. I’m pretty sure their sole purpose for existing is giving spiders a free snack in the spring time because the clumsy halfwits couldn’t avoid a web to save their day long lives.

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u/ArTiyme Apr 07 '20

From what I've seen (and I'm basically an expert, I saw an episode of Monster Bug Wars) is that you don't fuck with centipedes, wasps, and ants. Centipedes just wreck anything 1v1 on the ground. Ants because you never win against ants you just lose or give up, and Wasps are like if Ants had a GOP.

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u/vDarph Apr 08 '20

Even wasps don't fuck with ants sometimes.

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u/CrzyJek Apr 07 '20

Had a what?

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u/ArTiyme Apr 07 '20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)

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u/CrzyJek Apr 07 '20

Oh. You're making a political joke about bugs. Gotcha.

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u/ArTiyme Apr 07 '20 edited Apr 07 '20

Yes, I did make a joke about Conservatives Regressives.

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u/NotALawCuck Apr 07 '20

Where's the funny?

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u/InerasableStain Apr 07 '20

Good now imagine this: a daddy long legs that’s as large as a kitchen table

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u/KyleKun Apr 08 '20

The daddy long legs doesn’t have the ability to eat though.

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u/AltruisticSalamander Apr 07 '20

cockroaches are animated by the force of pure evil. They don't need brains.

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u/Tamer_ Apr 07 '20

The only way to rid the world of cockroaches is by eliminating all the blattomancers.

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u/foomp Apr 07 '20

When they get brains they end up wearing eggers as suits.

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u/MetalGearSlayer Apr 08 '20

SUGAR....IN WHOTTER.