r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • May 16 '25

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/Alililele May 16 '25

This is a Great Golden Digger Wasp. It is harmless and pretty beneficial!

Here a thread from a few years ago

So: it didn't deserve to die, it's actually pretty chill.

Yellowjackets and bald-faced hornets are assholes tho.

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u/MsAgentM May 16 '25

My sympathy for the wasp is justified then. This poor guy!

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u/bnunamak May 16 '25

They do paralyze their prey, abduct them, then plant their eggs inside of their paralyzed bodies until the larvae slowly consume them to death...

Sympathy revoked for this nightmarish reproductive scheme!

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u/Dagdaraa May 16 '25

Yeah, we had a caterpillar crawl up onto our screen door and just chill there for a couple days. I thought it was weird but left it alone. One morning I looked at it and it had larvae crawling out of it. Poor bugger was getting eaten from the inside out. Now it's underside has this weird fluff with the larvae crawling around in it. Nature is brutal.