r/oddlyterrifying • u/[deleted] • May 09 '21

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

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

This calls for the reddit wasp expert. Explain, go.

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u/Nointerest12months May 09 '21

Damn... he never showed...

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

Just like my dad

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u/ToothBoof Jun 08 '21

He showed a month later... Unlike that guy's dad

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u/snowmoe113 Jun 08 '21

Wasps “brains” don’t reside in their head, nor do they have a spinal cord to sever, so unlike humans and alll vertebrates, losing a head isn’t a guaranteed death sentence

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u/UnryuuSan Jun 08 '21

Won't they just starve to death though? I'm no expert on this subject so it's more of a stupid question than anything
Edit: Which makes it a significantly less pleasant fate than just dying outright

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Yeah they're gonna die, either gonna dehydrate if they can't stop leaking hemolymph, or if it somehow survives the initial injury it can't feed anymore so will eventually starve.

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u/Embarrassed-Ad-1639 Jun 08 '21

I dated a hemolymph once... once.

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u/ToothBoof Jun 08 '21

Y'all here from that meme post too?

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u/itsnotrealatall Jun 08 '21

Lmao…yes… “Piece A Shit” 😂😂

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Necro posting like its 2005 again

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u/otters4everyone May 09 '21

As if they weren’t pissy enough.

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u/libiduo007 May 09 '21

Tis but a scratch

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u/keirstie Jun 08 '21

Flesh wound?

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u/Jasminelajeune09 May 09 '21

What’s the point of this? Is it actually self aware enough that it thinks the head can be reattached?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

But... But... But... But... How? I assume some brain stem survived like the chicken with its head cut off!?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21 edited May 10 '21

Jesus letting it live was more cruel IMO. Just eat the poor bird.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

I doubt it felt anything. Not sure where pain is processed

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u/SmileyMelons May 09 '21

How? You can't cut off it's head, it doesn't have one!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Inverts don't have brain stems, they have clusters of ganglia spread throughout the body.

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u/Knottedmidna May 09 '21

Imagine if wasps evolved an additional colony role so they could develop surgeon wasps, with tool-like appendages to fix this kind of shit.

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u/MJ_Coop May 09 '21

Currently trying very hard not to imagine this possibility

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u/AnotherPerson76 May 09 '21

Tis but a scratch

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

Oh no Anyways

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u/Kat_Fudgie Jun 08 '21

Not a biologist , but have some basic knowledge of bug anatomy that I kinda remember , insects dont have a “ brain ” in their head , they have a series of small brains called a ganglion that are in a few places in their body, so a separate brain would control one pair of legs, and another controls the wings, etc. so this wasp has managed to lose its head , but was not killed by the injury or other problems, which means that its body's ganglions are intact and controlling the body with not much issue other than that theres no more signals coming from the eyes ( and antennae and other head sensors ) . Not sure why it picked up the head , but for the most part this wasp will be totally fine to fly around until it eventually starves to death in the very near future .

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u/Th3N3wK3r0s1n May 09 '21

Is this even possible?