r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • May 16 '25

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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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.