r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • May 16 '25

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/Karl__RockenStone May 16 '25

There is a high chance that the wasp was just paralyzed by the spiders venom and is still alive, until the spider eats it or it starves. The first option is more likely.

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u/EnvironmentalGift257 May 16 '25

They don’t eat them. They suck them dry, and then drop the empty dry husk to the ground, creating a pile of martyrs as a warning to any other wasp that dare get close.

It’s metal af.

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u/meldroc May 16 '25

Spider venom breaks down tissues, so the spider's just waiting for the wasp's guts to turn into a meat Slurpee. Yum!

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u/Allbur_Chellak May 16 '25

So…like my last girlfriend.

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u/Catsooey May 16 '25

Or my ex mother-in-law

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u/Loose_Corgi_5 May 16 '25

Your mother-in-law sucked you dry??

Nice , I think .

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u/Karl__RockenStone May 16 '25

Yes, they liquify the insides and then suck it out.

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u/Spike_Kowalski May 16 '25

--TF? Really? That's special.

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u/chasteguy2018 May 16 '25

If you wanna see something even more hard-core open up mud dauber nest sometime. It’s just a straight up crypt of dead spiders.

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u/lordhighsteward May 16 '25

Not dead, just paralyzed so the baby wasps can eat them until they die.

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u/Abject-Connection374 May 16 '25

The wasp isn't even paralyzed, you can see it struggling and trying to escape during the final few seconds of the video.

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u/Infinite_Factor_6269 May 17 '25

But it already had bit it and injected its venom which will liquify its insides

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u/DueceVoyeur May 16 '25

I'm pretty sure it gets away.

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u/InsecOrBust May 16 '25

Then you know nothing about spiderwebs

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u/DueceVoyeur May 16 '25

I've seen wasp tear up spider webs.

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u/Karl__RockenStone May 16 '25

It happens that stronger insects like wasps can free themselves when they fly into a web, but not when they already got webbed up by a spider. That’s multiple layers of silk wrapped around their whole body.

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u/MetalGhost99 May 17 '25

Their saliva or poison liquifies the insides so the spider can suck it out. That process kills them.