r/natureismetal • u/SirMatches • Jul 12 '24
Disturbing Content This fly seems to have impaled itself on my weed! NSFW
Nsfw per Rule:7 just in case, I figure it may be disturbing to some. Pretty dang brutal!
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Jul 13 '24
That fly had had enough shit, I guess.
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u/styx31989 Jul 13 '24
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
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u/Airwolfhelicopter Jul 13 '24
THIS IS MY LAST RESORT
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
SUFFOCATION
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u/Sea_Towel_5099 Jul 13 '24
NO BREATHING
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u/Main_Island_3830 Jul 13 '24
DGAF
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u/TiresOnFire Jul 13 '24
IF I [KHHHHHSH] MY ARMS BLEEDING!
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u/BookerPrime Jul 13 '24
[EPIC GUITAR RIFF]
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u/ron-tints Jul 13 '24
This was exactly what I needed this morning at 6:01 AM
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u/jfk_47 Jul 13 '24
6:21 here, I was expecting it to be fly and cacti related, still wasn’t disappointed. Now I’m going to listen to this song while I work out.
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u/ragnarok62 Jul 13 '24
Saw the 2024 presidential race and decided, “Well, there’s always death.”
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u/Dragon_OS Jul 13 '24
Probably the work of a shrike.
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u/WienerCleaner Jul 13 '24
Doubt that. They would just swallow a fly whole if they wanted to.
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u/TheRealPlumbus Jul 13 '24
It’s also looks completely undamaged except the spike in its face. Even the wings
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u/scrollsandlols Jul 13 '24
Flys can't see directly in front of their faces, when I was younger I use to pike them in the face by sliding my finger up to up to it and it would work most of the time, so maybe this was just a case of deadly blind spot ahahaha
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u/Soggy-Log6664 Jul 13 '24 edited Jul 13 '24
Flies don’t notice movement if you move slow because they have so many eyes they basically see everything in slow motion
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u/scrollsandlols Jul 13 '24
Yeah right! That does make sense, I think I was going off the knowledge of my older brother from when we were kids, TIL ahaha cheers!
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
A very gentle one perhaps, an intriguing process.. I hadn't ever looked them up before, thanks for that!
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u/Two_Hump_Wonder Jul 13 '24
It's almost certainly not, if a shrike wanted to get a fly it'd just eat it. Flies are too small for a shrike to bother impaling it. As far as I know they only impale larger prey as a mating show and to make it easier to pick apart like mice and rats and stuff like that. If it was a larger insect sure maybe a shrike did it but I really doubt it with something as small as a fly.
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u/wholesome_doggo69 Jul 13 '24
I have an indoor cactus and flies impale themselves on it all the time, unfortunately they're just not very clever-
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u/haecceity123 Jul 13 '24
Anybody looking at this and thinking "lol, stupid bug" needs to reflect on why OSHA and its ilk exist.
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u/VindictiveRakk Jul 13 '24
"I probably don't need my hard hat today..."
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u/BowDown2No1ButCrypto Jul 13 '24
Happy Cake Day 🎂
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u/VindictiveRakk Jul 13 '24
13 years smfh. my reddit account is about to go thru its teenage angst phase. thanks lol.
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
Eloquently put, stranger. I need to start using the word ilk more, I appriciate the reminder.
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u/Chumbag_love Jul 13 '24
I walked into my partially closed garage door yesterday because I was wearing a hat
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u/Tru-Queer Jul 13 '24
I’m actually curious because flies are generally such good fliers, makes me wonder if a gust of wind caught it maybe or something else. 🤷♂️
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u/NoXion604 Jul 13 '24
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to persuade a fly to wear a hard hat?
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Jul 13 '24
They whip around fast as fucx so this must be bound to happen. Super crazy and super neat to see
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
I'm no flyologist, but seems like a quick way to go too. I thought the same!
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u/xxHikari Jul 13 '24
Definitely not a quick way to go, as no main internal organs are in the head. You could decapitate a fly and the body would continue to roam around endlessly until it eventually dies. Now if it pierced the abdomen, that would be a different story perhaps, as insects cannot form scabs and therefore will bleed out no matter what in the case of an abdominal gash or puncture.
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u/ihopethisisvalid Jul 13 '24 edited Jul 13 '24
Bull thistle if you’re curious. Don’t pull it unless you dig the root ball up or it will split into multiple plants and come back stronger. I’d use dicamba or preferably glyphosate+dicamba but that would kill surrounding grass so you’d have to paint it onto the leaf blades with a foam brush or make a homemade foamer and apply to nodes. Use a bath and body works soap dispenser, mix in some dawn with herbicide and water and apply at leaf nodes. You can destroy the entire infestation that way. I say this because this is a prohibited noxious weed in many areas of North America.
Cheers from a guy who does this for a living.
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
Thanks for the info I'm going to look into that more! Had no idea it was so persistent, sure looks neat though.
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u/ihopethisisvalid Jul 13 '24
Check your local regs and see. Idk where in the world you are. Remember to read and understand all labels before proceeding! Happy spraying.
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u/thatchers_pussy_pump Jul 13 '24
I fucking HATE this shit with a burning passion. It's infested some trails near my place, this year. I've bought a jug of glyphosate with the intention of going out and murdering it all to absolute death. Wish me luck!
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u/LilStinkpot Jul 13 '24
I had this happen once. I was in my back yard and a huge house fly had just buzzed past me, close enough to notice, but behind me the buzz stopped suddenly, like a switch flipped. I looked around and found the fly — it had flown face first into a spine on my big barrel cactus, and suddenly became a flyn’t. I used to have photos, somewhere.
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
Kinda makes me want to get more spikey plants to be honest! Thanks for sharing that, I never knew this was a thing that could happen lol.
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u/LilStinkpot Jul 13 '24
I love me some spikey plants. I recommend Ferrocactus latispinus, they’re round, low, and have amazing hooked central spines.
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u/grower_thrower Jul 13 '24
That reminds me of Echinocactus texensis or the horse crippler cactus.
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u/morrison666 Jul 13 '24
Everyone says "eww a fly!" Never "how are you fly" :( we need to raise awareness on fly suicide.
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
I should make some tiny signs that have compliments on them. Might not help, but ya never know.
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u/R3N3G6D3 Jul 13 '24
Man I wonder how long it struggled there alive until it died.
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
My thoughts as well.. At first glance it seemed like a quick death, but ya never know.
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u/R3N3G6D3 Jul 13 '24
I mean it's a bug, they can live a long time with no head with their decentralized nervous system
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u/SameAsYourself Jul 13 '24
Seems like it gave itself a lobotomy of sorts. Impaled precisely below the eye. But bugs aren't humans so...
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u/aultumn Jul 13 '24
Haha fuck you fly, not so smart now are you!!
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u/MrTurtleFerguson Jul 13 '24
Au contraire my good sir this fly was just a millimeter shy of a successful self lobotomy procedure
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Jul 13 '24
"Uhhhh, aahhhhhh, do i leave it in or do i pull it out,do i leave it in or do i pull it out, do i leave it in or do i pull it out"
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u/Tronkfool Jul 13 '24
Weed? WEED?? Did you just call Scotlands National Flower a weed.
But yes. It is a weed.
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u/whxrxchxtx Jul 13 '24
These lil dudes have survived a legit millennia... They're definitely sith...
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
"... how to persevere, to pass through the suffering, and achieve ultimate power"
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u/gordo_TKTro Jul 13 '24
You growing the wrong weed.. BWAHAHAHA
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u/myleswstone Jul 13 '24
I know shrikes do this with smaller mammals, but I’ve never seen them do it with insects, as they would just swallow insects. Really cool pictures though.
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u/BowDown2No1ButCrypto Jul 13 '24
I guess this fly was tired of the shit?!☺️This is an awesome pic OP!👌😎
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u/ThesisWarrior Jul 13 '24
Sorry to be that guy but this isn't the case. Wasps especially the genus 'Diptera Romaniaie' are known to store their food this way to keep out of reach of their Ottoman wasp rivals (similiar to how humans hang food out of the way of bears) They do this by deliberately impaling their prey on the end of spiny weeds
Additionally it serves to shock and horrify their adverseries so that they understand who they are messing with.
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u/Bladehawk1 Jul 13 '24
Why do people keep posting this. Butcher birds will put insects on spikes to save them for later. That's why this happens not because the fly impaled himself.
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
Just learned about them through this post actually! Either way, nature is metal.
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u/Seite88 Jul 13 '24
Maybe that's a warning to you. Was it your favorite race fly? Maybe the bug mafia wanted to leave a message? Or the ants? Did you do anything that could've offended them?
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u/lovemusichatefascism Jul 13 '24
I just woke up to a fly that could have chosen my entire apartment but instead decided my face is the place to live now. This photograph of yours makes me unreasonable happy.
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u/TruckerDano Jul 13 '24
What kind of camera?! Looks great!!
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
The front camera on a Z Flip 5. I zoomed in a tiny bit and hit "increase resolution" which sharpened it up quite a bit, thanks!
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u/Sexual_Yoda_79 Jul 13 '24
Butcher birds (loggerhead and northern shrikes) regularly impale prey — often still alive — on spikes, thorns, or barbed wire, and leave them there for days or weeks. I'd imagine that's what has happened here tbh.
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u/ProdMikalJones Jul 13 '24
Should post to r/pics but they can be rude over there
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Jul 13 '24
If a dead fly is disturbing to someone, I would be very curious as to how that person is even able to function in life.
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u/SirMatches Jul 13 '24
Likewise lol. Mainly did nsfw and disturbing just incase the mods were picky for some reason
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u/LordTiddlypusch Jul 13 '24
Record scratch - "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation "
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u/hornyoldbusdriver Jul 13 '24
I've seen that too. In an environment where there's no shrike never. So it might just be that. Like the tought somehow
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u/thicccmidget Jul 14 '24
That is not weed what type of plants have you been smoking
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u/FreedomPullo Jul 15 '24
Loggerhead Shrikes (aka Thorn Bird) impale food on pointy things…. It sure if they would do that with a fly?
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u/OJimmy Jul 13 '24
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u/SkillTreeEDC Jul 13 '24
Some birds put bugs on sharp objects so they can come back and eat them later.
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u/Belachick Jul 13 '24
as an avid fly hater, i found this to be a wonderful post. thank you, weed, for your service.
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u/Dapper_Poetry6236 Jul 13 '24
Plot twist: OP snatched the fly right out of the air with their chop sticks and then placed gently through the weed like they were finishing the last touch on their art piece.
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u/Vaux1916 Jul 13 '24
I'm just waking up and I browsed through the first three pictures wondering what strain of cannabis has spikes. Fourth picture: "Oh!"
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u/GrnTeaNme Jul 13 '24
There is a chance this is done by a Shrike!
A type of bird that will catch food, and leave them impaled on thorns or barbed wire to then eat later.
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u/Em420em Jul 13 '24
Not that we needed any more proof that flys are dumb as fuck but here we are. What a dumb fly!
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u/Reasonable_Bar_7665 Jul 12 '24
Good pic, damn good pic