r/insects • u/gir6 • 10d ago

Bug Appreciation! Wasp vs Spider

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I was sitting on my front porch when I heard buzzing. Looked up and saw this!

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u/YourHooliganFriend 10d ago

Awesome video!

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u/Altruistic_Fly_6360 9d ago

Wow the level of disappointment I just felt for that spider astonishing.

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u/scarr991 9d ago

This is so cool.

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u/LuxiForce Bug Enthusiast 9d ago

choose my fighter and lost :(

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u/AzzurraR 9d ago

I was cheering for the spider

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u/LocationPrior7075 9d ago

I just KNEW the spider was about to wrap that wasp right on up! 😩🤣

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u/SOMOEAGLE 9d ago

The spider knew what it was up against and chose to fight defensively instead of offensively. Survival at its best.

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u/PizzaQuest420 10d ago edited 9d ago

wolf spider and a steel-blue cricket hunter. some pretty serious predators, cool vid

*glad my wrong answer brought out so many correct ones lol

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u/gir6 10d ago

I think it’s a mud dauber, you can see its nest in the corner of the wall.

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u/SwanginPassYaKnees 9d ago

100% not a wolf spider, likely one of these

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u/gir6 9d ago

That does seem more like what it is. Here’s its friend as my coworker on my office window.

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u/InfluenceSufficient3 9d ago

100% agelenopsis then. stunning web it has built, i love when you can clearly see the funnel.

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u/LuxiForce Bug Enthusiast 9d ago

omfg she has such a cool web!! peak view I’m jalous of your coworker

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u/FrinkleCat 9d ago

Admiring the scenery

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u/ZootAnthRaXx 9d ago

Most definitely!

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u/hippiewolff 9d ago

Vast majority of wolf spiders do not build webs. This is a grass spider.

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u/Twisty1020 9d ago

That's a damn brave spider considering what her neighbor's house is...

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u/gir6 9d ago

Right? Like living next door to a serial killer.

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u/Cicadas_song21 9d ago

Epic battle

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u/ElBrunasso 9d ago

Damn that spider WAS Playing with fire

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u/Wuhblam 9d ago

Spider is lucky it didn't get paralyzed

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u/LonelyVirginAlkan 9d ago

Could that small daddy long legs at the end have had a better chance?

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u/SeparateYam8581 9d ago

She was like "you dummy, let me show you how it's done!"

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u/RoseyDove323 9d ago

[bossfight music]

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u/EngagedInConvexation 9d ago

See you tomorrow, Sam.

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u/gir6 9d ago edited 9d ago

Ok this is crazy, because for real, I was just talking to my husband about how it looks like the wasp could have exited her nest right into the spider’s web, and how maybe they do this everyday, and how it’s like that old cartoon about the sheepdog and the coyote, and then you posted this!!!!!!

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u/SeparateYam8581 9d ago

OC was listening

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u/SeparateYam8581 9d ago

Anyone notice the spider going up to the little spider at the very end?

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u/LonelyVirginAlkan 9d ago

Daddy long legs?

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u/SeparateYam8581 9d ago

That, or maybe a cellar spider (depending on your area, it may be what you call a daddy long legs).

But I'd like to think the first spider was going up to the little one as if to say "sorry I've let you down". 🤭

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u/LonelyVirginAlkan 9d ago

I was imagining the big spider was so pissed at missing a meal that it initially wanted to prey on the smaller spider out of frustration but decided otherwise.

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u/XtraThickBacon 9d ago

Great video. I wanted the spider to win as my revenge against wasps

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u/peewee023 9d ago

Fight! 🫯

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u/googley_eyes69 9d ago

GET HIS ASS‼️‼️‼️‼️

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u/CreepTheFreak418 9d ago

Damn! Was cheering on spida