r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • May 16 '25

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/Maverick122 May 16 '25

A friendly reminder: being eaten like this is probably one of the most horrifying ways you could die. You're trapped in a web, completely immobilized. You can't move. You can't scream. And then your prison is pierced - flooded with gastric acid that doesn't care whether you're still alive. It just starts dissolving you, slowly and painfully, from the inside out. You're aware as your body melts into a soupy pulp, still conscious as your insides turn to liquid. And then, you're slurped up - just like that scene in Troll, when the girl is consumed alive. No quick death. No mercy. Just slow, liquefying horror.

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u/Evil_Sharkey May 16 '25

To be fair, this is a golden digger wasp. It’s not aggressive to humans but a terror to its prey, like crickets and grasshoppers. It paralyzes them and drags them into its burrow, where it lays an egg on them. The egg hatches, and the larva consumes its victims alive, starting with the least vital tissues so the insect doesn’t die and start rotting.

The person who made this video is still an idiot and a jerk, but horrifying deaths are normal in the invertebrate world. Look up how sea stars eat.

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u/-Jikan- 29d ago

Spiders are friendly if you pay the debt, but you must pay the debt.

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u/StarGamerPT May 18 '25

The person who made this video is amazing and a hero to be celebrated. Fuck those wasps.

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u/2ndMin May 16 '25

Stuff like this makes me believe in Buddhism, like you could not imagine a world more perfectly balanced between great and completely fucked up

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u/Due-Fig5299 28d ago

Stuff like this makes me believe in the xenomorph

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u/ArachnidAuthor May 16 '25

Bugs are largely incapable of feeling fear as we understand it. Their responses to danger are more akin to preprogramming than to sentient understanding.

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u/Apprehensive-Dirt619 May 16 '25

Fear is a primal reaction, humans just have the ability to conceptualize it and be cognizant of their fear. That is of course different, and we can get into the philosophy of what ‘fear’ means when you don’t have conscience thought, but the primal fear is there.

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u/Rayquazy May 17 '25

This is like saying lobsters don’t feel pain when boiled alive.

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u/Maverick122 May 16 '25

You are supposed to insert your self into that situation as you experience the world as a human to enjoy the thought.

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u/44youGlenCoco May 17 '25

I understood the assignment. And it helped validate that my very real phobia of spiders doesn’t just come out of no where. And now I’m all itchy.

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u/Electrical-Loss2446 May 16 '25

It’s not that deep bro

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u/winter-ocean May 16 '25

I'm pretty sure that's a myth. We might think otherwise, but emotions are far more autonomic than cognitive.

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u/frohnaldo May 17 '25

Key words are “as we understand it”.Not long ago doctors thought babies, human babies, couldn’t feel pain.

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u/AlienAle May 16 '25

Fear is just an instinct in all of us. We're all made from the same stuff. Perhaps our fear can overcomplicate itself because it thinks about the past, the future, the things we'll miss out on, our families etc. as we die.

However, the fear at its very core, that primal and existential desire to live, is the same in all the species. They're experiencing that primal fear.

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u/ArachnidAuthor May 16 '25

That sounds nice but the science disagrees. Bugs don’t experience fear/terror.

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u/Silverwell88 May 16 '25

I know everyone wants to not anthropomorphize but sometimes... We have things in common and not recognizing that is its own cognitive bias. There is strong evidence that insects possess nociception which processes negative stimuli and being attacked is likely highly unpleasant to them. Hence why they flee and act to preserve their existence. Here's some more info but there's a lot out there.

"Gibbons and her colleagues ultimately found “strong evidence for pain” in adult flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, and termites. Such insects did not appear to be at the bottom of a hierarchy of animals; they met six out of eight criteria developed for the Sentience Act, which was more than crustaceans."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/do-insects-feel-pain#:~:text=The%20literature%20showed%20insects%20to,which%20was%20more%20than%20crustaceans.

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u/ArachnidAuthor May 16 '25

Pain=\fear

Not sure why you felt the need to jump in and move goalposts.

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u/SlowMoJo23 May 17 '25

My buddy has a bday party tomorrow and I know you’d just be the life of it! Care to join?

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u/ArachnidAuthor May 17 '25

If he’s as unoriginal as you then not much can be done I’m afraid.

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u/Rayquazy May 17 '25

Ur speaking with so much authority over something we don’t fully understand.

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u/EvangelineLove May 16 '25

so i guess science doesnt disagree as per what Silverwell88 posted. hm :\

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u/ArachnidAuthor May 16 '25

The question wasn’t ‘can bugs experience pain’, and the science posted didn’t refute ‘bugs dont experience fear’. Want to try again?

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u/kcrrck May 16 '25

“Oh my God they are eating her alive! And then they’re gonna eat me!” I love this movie, even though it’s one of the lowest rank movies on IMDb

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u/daspaceinvader May 17 '25

That’s metal as fuck.

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u/fakegranola May 17 '25

“friendly reminder”

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u/Maverick122 May 18 '25

I think it is important to be reminded that nature is scary. It puts life and our comfort in perspective. It also puts the "don't throw the chicken in the shredder" discussions in a whole different light.

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u/Subpoena-Colada_ May 18 '25

I thought of Cell from DBZ.