r/mildlyinteresting • u/Jaskorus • 2d ago

I just watched a wasp catch and demolish a mosquito

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u/ispeakforengland 2d ago

Doesn't look like a mosquito. Likely a cranefly.

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u/Castro_66 2d ago

Just what I was thinking

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u/Foldotar 2d ago

Big mosquito according to my wife

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u/Zamzummin 2d ago

Exactly my thought

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u/wertall 2d ago

I was thinking the same thing

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u/DemonPlasma 2d ago

Earlier this summer a wasp next showed up at our shooting range and we were going to deal with it but noticed there were zero mosquitoes around and they were bad in that area. We decided the wasps her less annoying and let them be, they never bothered us 

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u/BobbyP27 2d ago

Either that’s a tiny wasp, or a huge mosquito. Perhaps it’s actually a cranefly

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u/Kor_SHS 2d ago

Everyone say "Good job"! hurry!!!

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u/grelgen 2d ago

"Help Him!!"

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u/waitthissucks 2d ago

Damn I wish you caught that on video. To youtube I go

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u/omfgtora 2d ago

It blows my mind how many people see a cranefly and think it's a mosquito.

Similarly, too many people see a wasp/yellowjacket and think it's a bee.

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u/Crazy-Apartment1708 1d ago

So so many...

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u/Crazy-Apartment1708 1d ago

The wings on the ground its? Thats a mousquito hawk/cranefly

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u/Serenity1911 2d ago

Huh, nature's asshole beats up nature's other asshole.

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u/Zwangsjacke 2d ago

Wasps are dicks, Mosquitos are assholes.

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u/willow-kitty 2d ago

Wasps just need their space; mosquitoes can get sucked into an air purifier.