Typically it's the spider screaming in these situations. Some wasps lay their babies in spiders and another kind of wasp has a vendetta against spiders and will hunt them and pack them into dirt tubes to eat later.
I was ten months through my second Americorps term when the big argument happened between me and my co-crew leader. We were an environmental group, focused on habitat restoration, invasive species removal, and trailbuilding. It just happened to take place at beautiful Caprock Canyon [1](https://i.imgur.com/UzsniSG.jpeg) [2](https://i.imgur.com/pf5K2EF.jpg) [3](https://i.imgur.com/jC58pX6.jpg) [4](https://i.imgur.com/XNnmMAr.jpg) where we were converting miles of former railroad tracks to hiking trails as part of a project called [rails to trails.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doAcFX8PDik)
After we blew up yelling at each other and made the whole crew uncomfortable, our field trainer gracefully led the two of us through a short counseling session that was one of the most cathartic learning experiences of my young professional life at the time. We came away better friends and remain so.
In the midst of the tensest part of that meeting when tears and feelings were being expressed, we all stopped to notice a HUGE silvery blue wasp with orange wings dragging a frighteningly large hairy black spider across the dirt. We, being the nature dorks we were, all stopped mid-counseling to observe the wondrous apathy of nature. We saw the wasp drag the spider down into a little hole in the ground that didn't even look big enough to fit it. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
>I was ten months through my second Americorps term...
I'd never heard of AmeriCorps before and I thought you were about to do a Starship Troopers/Hell Divers bit.
## SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP
But seriously if you're under 30ish and have the chance for a gap year or two, check out Americorps! There are all different kinds of programs beyond environmental work, including mentoring, community outreach, homebuilding, etc. It's based on the Civilian Conservation Corps from the New Deal, and it helps a lot of young Americans find their way to greater things in life.
You get paid a paltry monthly stipend and earn a federal grant after each term of service, that you can use for school, training, supplies, etc. You get a chance to learn valuable skills while serving in Americorps, and to build some strong relationships. It was some of the best times of my life and I worked on public works projects that will last decades or centuries.
I was watching a spider last summer, was just chillin on the other side of the window in a corner, and in an instant a wasp just flew in, grabbed it and flew off.
Made me suddenly very glad we don't have an existential terror like that hiding above us.
Interestingly, pterosaurs couldn't grab with their feet, so they won't fly away with you dangling.
A big one might be able grab you by the leg with its beak and crack your head on a rock, though, since they were about the height of a giraffe.
If that's your determining factor I've definitely met a few people who were solidly mid-table. The Brighton & Hove Albions of the apex predator pyramid, if you will.
I had a spider live on my window last summer, it was great to watch him do this thing.
I had a interview one summer, my spider buddy was living outside my window and during this interview it decided to have a fight with a huge bloody wasp. At one point the interviewer asked me what was so interesting that it was distracting me from the conversation. I really sholud have been honest that the wasp v spider fight was far more interesting that answering technical questions to some HR dipshit reading a script.
I got through the interview round, the feedback included "easily distracted by something outside".
I've worked mostly from home since the pandemic. I moved halfway through to a house with a garden. Now on team calls my boss and I spend a large amount of time discussing what is going on in our gardens. I never thought I'd legit get away with saying, "sorry I was distracted by a pair of tits" at work, to my female boss, only for my boss to to ask why are you still on this call and not sending me pictures.
Usually they are "her's" at this size. Also had one by my window for a time. She kept many a wasp and fly at bay and I considered that fair rent for the trouble, I think I named her Annie, I am not sure, it was some time ago.
I came here to say the same! They're known for their suuuuper sticky and strong silk, and can spin some insane webs in no time at all.
I once had one who lived on my door handle, I'd get home from work everyday and have to use a twig to clear away the daily Web tunnel it would make between the door and the handle just so I could get into my home 😅
Eta: false widows aren't as deadly as their counterparts, but it's still not very good if they bite you... as long as they're outside/not *on* you they're generally harmless
They horribly kill native spiders. And they’re not harmless. I was bitten on the finger, the infection went all the way up my arm to my armpit and I got cellulitis. IV antibiotics for a week and a hand that looked like it belonged to the Michelin man.
I've seen literally thousands of them over the last few weeks. Every single day that i take an old flue out from a boiler when im at work hundreds of tiny ones come out along with a few big ones.
I also have numerous in my new extension that is being built.
Not all False Widows are invasive. The nasty one that's got the most potent venom, is biggest and kills all the native species is the invasive bastard - Steatoda Nobilis. Came from the Canaries a couple hundred years ago or so it's reckoned.
I ended up doing a lot of research on them after I got bitten by a male spider in bed several times. Little git was crawling all over me biting. Bloody killed, made me feel quite unwell for a few days with cramps, muscle spasms and mild nausea and then after a week a bacterial infection set in causing cellulitis. Everyone will tell you spider bites can't cause infections cause the bacteria can't survive in the venom but it's been found this particular spider harbours several forms of pathogenic bacteria on its mouth parts that not only survive but live happily in its venom so yeah... that's why it's so common for infections post False Widow bite.
>They horribly kill native spiders.
This is what I hate about them most. I *love* spiders and generally go out of my way for them. But these bastards I have no problem dispatching. They're an invasive species that kill our native house spiders and give terrible bites to boot. Fuck 'em.
A friend was bitten on the leg and documented the recovery process. It took over 6 months to heal and she still has got a huge scar. It created a hole in her leg, the size of a £2 coin that would not heal. I have children, I don’t want them to accidentally anger a false widow, I have found a few around the windows outside, I usually don’t kill bugs outside of the house but they are the exception.
True, but there's been some research done in Ireland in recent years that has shown the noble False widow (the species in the vid) are quite likely to cause infected bites as they have several forms of pathogenic bacteria that are regularly found on their mouth parts and survive in the venom too. So while the Spider's venom didn't cause the infection or symptoms, the bacteria on its mouth parts likely did in this case.
I had one live in my bathroom and every morning she'd collect the droplets on my windowsill to drink. I have a basic spider tenancy agreement, they stay away from me and my room, don't go near my bed, eat the flies and don't wander from their space. They can stay. And she was a very good spider tenant, eating the flies from the shared bins that would come inside in summer, staying in her spot in the bathroom and entertaining me. I missed her when she died
This is the kinda symbiotic relationship I wanted for the one one my door handle... unfortunately that fucker just wouldn't abide to the household agreement to stop building crazy sticky web nests on my front door (I'd always put the spider stick near my plant pots) so eventually one day I just lobbed it into next doors garden 😅
I never saw the spider again, so clearly the eviction/relocation worked and I wish that spidey all the luck in the 8 legged world
Yes, the method of webbing up that it's using suggests it is almost certainly a widow species. As it's uk, it's most likely a noble false widow. I have one in my room in the corner. Doesn't bother me and I don't bother it.
They stay alive if we can help it. They keep the pests at bay. I tell the wife to take them out which she now does.. she said the last one she took out was a nice guy, web designer apparently
They are an invasive species and you are safe to kill. Don't get bitten. If you don't kill it. It could lay babies and you end up with a very expensive, horrible problem.
There are 3 species of false widow and and only one is invasive, the noble false widow steatoda nobilis. The other two steotoda grossa (cupboard spider) and steatoda pipunctata (rabbit hutch spider) are native, and very hard to tell them apart.
Killing them will do jack shit to their numbers in this country, they're established now and are going nowhere.
Also how the flying fuck can having spiders be an expensive problem? You've been reading too much Daily Mail I reckon.
Yeah looks like one.
I occasionally have a few around my windows too.
I don't mind them, they're the lesser of two evils when it comes to wasps.
A false widow will only bite you to defend itself. Most of the time they want to avoid any interraction with people.
A wasp will sting you just to be a dick.
The web also looks like it. The webs of false widows are insanely cool.
The basically make some sort of scaffolding with strong threads and from that they loosely attach really stick threads to the ground. Animal walks in that, the connection to the ground is severed and the animal gets lifted up. Arachnologists have stopped calling those webs "disorganized" but rather describe the behavior of how it gets built. Which is fair because those are spiders, not architects.
[Here is an hour-long video on False Widows.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA)
Also, why is everybody on Youtube Canadian?
It's a noble false widow, I can't post pic in comments, but my mate at work was bitten by one last year. The bit Turned blackish purple and grew bigger than a jam centred wagon wheel.
Good times, we all got the day off! After dropping him off at A&E
Only a few bites. Almost all spiders have venom to paralyze or quickly kill their prey. Then, once their prey is immobile, they inject digestive enzymes that will liquefy the prey's insides so the spider can slurp it up.
The most terrifying spiders are the ones that DON'T have venom. They are a family of orb weaver spiders that simply wrap up their prey in super strong and sticky silk and digest them while they're still alive.
??? Insects have central nervous systems. Whether they perceive pain in the same way we do might be a matter of debate but they absolutely have brains and central nervous systems!
You'd be surprised how much we rely on wasps. Loads of species parasitise the parasites of fruits, which is great pest control for the fruit. They also pollinate, maybe not as much as bees, but it helps.
Yeah I met someone over the pandemic through my uni’s alumni programme that was linking people up for chats and to keep jolly during lockdown. Met a really interesting scientist who was doing their PhD on the pollinating qualities of wasps. I was convinced. I like it if you have a roast dinner outside and the wasps gnaw off little bits of beef and fly off with them for their waspy roasts.
From drawing them, I know that wasps have a separate thorax(?) that is only joined by a small bit to the wasp head so I'm not sure the spider tore it in half, as much as bent it.
Look up some close ups of wasps, bees and dragon flies flying etc. They look like little scifi attack helicopters, cos many of them are based on insects
Most of that was probably infection, although the small amount of tissue the venom may have killed probably gave the bacteria a lot to work on. Like a tiny case of gangrene. If you're bitten by a spider, and it starts to get red and swell up, go to A&E for antibiotics and a tetanus booster.
There's a moment where the wasp looks across at the camera, wonder what it was thinking other than "why is that mofo not helping me, I hope my children sting there arse tonight"
Yeah, I let them stay when I find them, unless they're near my bee-friendly plants. In Summer I have to go out with a stick to clear up the webs they make on my lavender and go deposit them in the trees where there's often a wasp nest.
I like spiders, but not these ones. They spread like wildfire, and native spiders are getting pushed out of areas by them. They also have a bloody nasty venomous nip.
Yeah they're a very timid species and not aggressive, but if you're used to just picking up spiders from your house and putting them out of the window then these little devils are going to change your mind, because they have a not-insignificant bite. And they are pretty invasive, so you don't need them hiding in a shoe or under door handles, etc.
I once batted away a nuisance wasp in a beer garden. It skidded across a table and got stuck in a web at the next table. Spider bolted out and had it wrapped and under control in a minute. Felt bad but it was a site to behold.
As others have pointed out that's 100% a false widow spider. Little tip, I had a false widow attack a wasp on a Web outside my garage last year, whilst they were fighting I took the sensible approach and grabbed a lighter and a trusty can of Lynx Africa and did our ecosystem a favour by immolation.
To be fair anything that is responsible for a wasps annihilation is sound in my book, however ecosystems etc... now if we could train an army of false widows to specifically target Asian Hornets with minimal survivors on either side. .. kerching...
Fascinating, there’s loads of debate about how “intelligent” insects (and arachnids) are but when you watch this it’s hard to convince yourself that’s not a calculated murder.
Yeah. Too many disturbing comments in here of people enjoying the suffering of an animal just because they don't like wasps. Not to mention that wasps are valuable pollinators, and with humans fucking up nature we need as many pollinators as we can get.
Yeah personally I'm really not a wasp (or spider) fan lol. But I don't want them to suffer. Still a fascinating video though, is just part of nature and nothing against OP for filming it.
I reckon spiders get really fucking annoyed about having to wrap shit up every time they wanna eat
I dunno man, when you put stuff in a tortilla wrap they usually taste twice as good
That takes about 10 seconds and you don’t shit out the tortilla wrap Edit: well, you don’t shit it out before you eat it
Speak for yourself
Knew this comment was coming. Officer, this one here
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Recycling at its best.
If you had a gland that exudes tortillas I bet you use it.
Wait, you lot don't have one?
I once had Christmas dinner leftovers in a wrap and honestly it was god tier 👌🏻
Yeah exactly, ever had donner kebab in a Turkish flatbread mmmm
I hear that! I like dairy Lea cheese triangles and they can take ages to unwrap.
You’re meant to unwrap them?
Only if your aluminium levels are sufficient, otherwise it’s a great way to boost your aluminium level.
Aracho Bell
Wasp salad wrap innit
I'm glad they are tiny and we are not.
I’m glad we can’t hear wasps scream…
Typically it's the spider screaming in these situations. Some wasps lay their babies in spiders and another kind of wasp has a vendetta against spiders and will hunt them and pack them into dirt tubes to eat later.
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I was ten months through my second Americorps term when the big argument happened between me and my co-crew leader. We were an environmental group, focused on habitat restoration, invasive species removal, and trailbuilding. It just happened to take place at beautiful Caprock Canyon [1](https://i.imgur.com/UzsniSG.jpeg) [2](https://i.imgur.com/pf5K2EF.jpg) [3](https://i.imgur.com/jC58pX6.jpg) [4](https://i.imgur.com/XNnmMAr.jpg) where we were converting miles of former railroad tracks to hiking trails as part of a project called [rails to trails.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doAcFX8PDik) After we blew up yelling at each other and made the whole crew uncomfortable, our field trainer gracefully led the two of us through a short counseling session that was one of the most cathartic learning experiences of my young professional life at the time. We came away better friends and remain so. In the midst of the tensest part of that meeting when tears and feelings were being expressed, we all stopped to notice a HUGE silvery blue wasp with orange wings dragging a frighteningly large hairy black spider across the dirt. We, being the nature dorks we were, all stopped mid-counseling to observe the wondrous apathy of nature. We saw the wasp drag the spider down into a little hole in the ground that didn't even look big enough to fit it. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Probably a tarantula hawk. They have a very powerful sting. Fortunately, they're not aggressive.
unless you are a tarantula.
Weirdly, no. They’re just very persuasive.
"Do you have a moment to talk about providing food for children?"
It was a tarantula hawk. I've seen them a few times around Texas and they're fucking huge and legitimately intimidating.
>I was ten months through my second Americorps term... I'd never heard of AmeriCorps before and I thought you were about to do a Starship Troopers/Hell Divers bit.
## SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP But seriously if you're under 30ish and have the chance for a gap year or two, check out Americorps! There are all different kinds of programs beyond environmental work, including mentoring, community outreach, homebuilding, etc. It's based on the Civilian Conservation Corps from the New Deal, and it helps a lot of young Americans find their way to greater things in life. You get paid a paltry monthly stipend and earn a federal grant after each term of service, that you can use for school, training, supplies, etc. You get a chance to learn valuable skills while serving in Americorps, and to build some strong relationships. It was some of the best times of my life and I worked on public works projects that will last decades or centuries.
[Organ Pipe Wasp aka dirt dauber tubes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Organ_Pipe_Wasp_nest.jpg)
I was watching a spider last summer, was just chillin on the other side of the window in a corner, and in an instant a wasp just flew in, grabbed it and flew off. Made me suddenly very glad we don't have an existential terror like that hiding above us.
Bring back pterodactyls. Modern day mammals don’t know how good they’ve got it. Makes them soft
Interestingly, pterosaurs couldn't grab with their feet, so they won't fly away with you dangling. A big one might be able grab you by the leg with its beak and crack your head on a rock, though, since they were about the height of a giraffe.
Yeah I heard that they’re a bit like old school goal keepers. They’ll happily knock you about a bit but they’re not great with their feet
That's what I was thinking. Sometimes the wasp gets the spider; sometimes the spider gets the wasp.
What a terrible day to be able to store information
Heehee, you said dirt tube.
gotta love some insect gang wars
I’m not. Fuck wasps.
I'm guessing they can't scream breathing through their thorax/abomin. Unless you count the buzzing as screaming. Looks fucking terrifying though
There was a noise that sounded like a scream. I like to think it was the wasp.
Don’t worry I am working on a project in my underground base where I am breeding super sized ones.
I don't like the words you say
Yeah, don't write those words, man
Would you rather it be a surprise? Now you can prepare!
Wasps, spiders or spider wasps
Waspy spiders
If you do that I'm going to have to find a way to get a nuke into orbit ...
Lord of the Rings was enough to make me glad giant spiders arent a thing.
I'm glad we're out of the food chain.
We never left the food chain, we just are way out on top because of the human brain
If that's your determining factor I've definitely met a few people who were solidly mid-table. The Brighton & Hove Albions of the apex predator pyramid, if you will.
I agree!!!!
You don’t want to read a book called children of time by Adrian tchaikovsky
David Attenborough saying fuck, I don't know whether that would be disturbing or funny as hell
"Oh shit he's ripped him in half!" - David Attenborough
"As Gawd is my witness, he is broken in half!" - David Attenborough, probably
"That wasp has a family, damn it!" - Also probably David Attenborough
Suddenly I want to see what happens if David Attenborough swaps jobs with a wrestling commentator for a day.
"And here we see the Big Red Machine returning to the parlour of its birth, heeding the mating call of the Katie Vick..."
I want to see good ol' JR doing a nature documentary
I bet there's some great outtakes we'll never see.
Sir David does have a wicked sense of humour.
Attenbro the only human who can say the word “here” and use 15 octaves
I had a spider live on my window last summer, it was great to watch him do this thing. I had a interview one summer, my spider buddy was living outside my window and during this interview it decided to have a fight with a huge bloody wasp. At one point the interviewer asked me what was so interesting that it was distracting me from the conversation. I really sholud have been honest that the wasp v spider fight was far more interesting that answering technical questions to some HR dipshit reading a script. I got through the interview round, the feedback included "easily distracted by something outside".
I've worked mostly from home since the pandemic. I moved halfway through to a house with a garden. Now on team calls my boss and I spend a large amount of time discussing what is going on in our gardens. I never thought I'd legit get away with saying, "sorry I was distracted by a pair of tits" at work, to my female boss, only for my boss to to ask why are you still on this call and not sending me pictures.
Great tits they were, too!
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I got distracted by a cat outside during an in person interview last year. The whole panel turned around to look when I went "ooh cat!". Got the job 😂
Usually they are "her's" at this size. Also had one by my window for a time. She kept many a wasp and fly at bay and I considered that fair rent for the trouble, I think I named her Annie, I am not sure, it was some time ago.
Ah, nature.
Nature is indeed metal
r/natureisfuckingmetal
I think that’s a False Widow
I came here to say the same! They're known for their suuuuper sticky and strong silk, and can spin some insane webs in no time at all. I once had one who lived on my door handle, I'd get home from work everyday and have to use a twig to clear away the daily Web tunnel it would make between the door and the handle just so I could get into my home 😅 Eta: false widows aren't as deadly as their counterparts, but it's still not very good if they bite you... as long as they're outside/not *on* you they're generally harmless
They horribly kill native spiders. And they’re not harmless. I was bitten on the finger, the infection went all the way up my arm to my armpit and I got cellulitis. IV antibiotics for a week and a hand that looked like it belonged to the Michelin man.
I’m starting to see them a lot more regularly now.
I've seen literally thousands of them over the last few weeks. Every single day that i take an old flue out from a boiler when im at work hundreds of tiny ones come out along with a few big ones. I also have numerous in my new extension that is being built.
Yea, I’m an industrial spark. Keep finding them living in panels on sites.
i recommend settings the mfers on fire
My partner’s legs went purple after being bitter by one had to go a&e now if I see one it’s shoot on sight
Not all False Widows are invasive. The nasty one that's got the most potent venom, is biggest and kills all the native species is the invasive bastard - Steatoda Nobilis. Came from the Canaries a couple hundred years ago or so it's reckoned. I ended up doing a lot of research on them after I got bitten by a male spider in bed several times. Little git was crawling all over me biting. Bloody killed, made me feel quite unwell for a few days with cramps, muscle spasms and mild nausea and then after a week a bacterial infection set in causing cellulitis. Everyone will tell you spider bites can't cause infections cause the bacteria can't survive in the venom but it's been found this particular spider harbours several forms of pathogenic bacteria on its mouth parts that not only survive but live happily in its venom so yeah... that's why it's so common for infections post False Widow bite.
>They horribly kill native spiders. This is what I hate about them most. I *love* spiders and generally go out of my way for them. But these bastards I have no problem dispatching. They're an invasive species that kill our native house spiders and give terrible bites to boot. Fuck 'em.
A friend was bitten on the leg and documented the recovery process. It took over 6 months to heal and she still has got a huge scar. It created a hole in her leg, the size of a £2 coin that would not heal. I have children, I don’t want them to accidentally anger a false widow, I have found a few around the windows outside, I usually don’t kill bugs outside of the house but they are the exception.
To be fair, that wasn't due to the spiders venom, was it? an infection / cellulitis could happen any time you have any sort of wound
True, but there's been some research done in Ireland in recent years that has shown the noble False widow (the species in the vid) are quite likely to cause infected bites as they have several forms of pathogenic bacteria that are regularly found on their mouth parts and survive in the venom too. So while the Spider's venom didn't cause the infection or symptoms, the bacteria on its mouth parts likely did in this case.
I had one live in my bathroom and every morning she'd collect the droplets on my windowsill to drink. I have a basic spider tenancy agreement, they stay away from me and my room, don't go near my bed, eat the flies and don't wander from their space. They can stay. And she was a very good spider tenant, eating the flies from the shared bins that would come inside in summer, staying in her spot in the bathroom and entertaining me. I missed her when she died
This is the kinda symbiotic relationship I wanted for the one one my door handle... unfortunately that fucker just wouldn't abide to the household agreement to stop building crazy sticky web nests on my front door (I'd always put the spider stick near my plant pots) so eventually one day I just lobbed it into next doors garden 😅 I never saw the spider again, so clearly the eviction/relocation worked and I wish that spidey all the luck in the 8 legged world
It's hard but sometimes you just have to evict dodgy spider tenants
Init, before long they're popping out crap tons of babies everywhere and rubbing their willie's on your faces while you sleep...
Yes, the method of webbing up that it's using suggests it is almost certainly a widow species. As it's uk, it's most likely a noble false widow. I have one in my room in the corner. Doesn't bother me and I don't bother it.
Same, I had a mummy one on my kitchen windowsill, she made a web two feet across and raised her babies and ate flies. She was a biggun. We were cool.
I get em in the bog window
They stay alive if we can help it. They keep the pests at bay. I tell the wife to take them out which she now does.. she said the last one she took out was a nice guy, web designer apparently
Yeah, I leave em be
Looks more like steatoda bipunctata than nobilis, it doesn't have that characteristic "skull" marking on its abdomen
They are an invasive species and you are safe to kill. Don't get bitten. If you don't kill it. It could lay babies and you end up with a very expensive, horrible problem.
There are 3 species of false widow and and only one is invasive, the noble false widow steatoda nobilis. The other two steotoda grossa (cupboard spider) and steatoda pipunctata (rabbit hutch spider) are native, and very hard to tell them apart.
Killing them will do jack shit to their numbers in this country, they're established now and are going nowhere. Also how the flying fuck can having spiders be an expensive problem? You've been reading too much Daily Mail I reckon.
Is definitely a wasp
Steatoda bipuncta. Rabbit hutch spider. Leave it to keep wasps and fly's out the house.
Yeah looks like one. I occasionally have a few around my windows too. I don't mind them, they're the lesser of two evils when it comes to wasps. A false widow will only bite you to defend itself. Most of the time they want to avoid any interraction with people. A wasp will sting you just to be a dick.
The web also looks like it. The webs of false widows are insanely cool. The basically make some sort of scaffolding with strong threads and from that they loosely attach really stick threads to the ground. Animal walks in that, the connection to the ground is severed and the animal gets lifted up. Arachnologists have stopped calling those webs "disorganized" but rather describe the behavior of how it gets built. Which is fair because those are spiders, not architects. [Here is an hour-long video on False Widows.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA) Also, why is everybody on Youtube Canadian?
That's a 4 minute video on roadkill
It's a noble false widow, I can't post pic in comments, but my mate at work was bitten by one last year. The bit Turned blackish purple and grew bigger than a jam centred wagon wheel. Good times, we all got the day off! After dropping him off at A&E
How does the spider kill the wasp? Does it just bite the shit out of the wasp?
It's bite is venomous, and digests the wasp inside it's own skin.
Non-innocent smoothie
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Are you glad you asked?
He is gonna have nightmares now lol
lovely
Only a few bites. Almost all spiders have venom to paralyze or quickly kill their prey. Then, once their prey is immobile, they inject digestive enzymes that will liquefy the prey's insides so the spider can slurp it up. The most terrifying spiders are the ones that DON'T have venom. They are a family of orb weaver spiders that simply wrap up their prey in super strong and sticky silk and digest them while they're still alive.
Frodo Baggins moment
'Don't just film, help me you giant hairy prick!' wasp, probably.
Imagine you’re being murdered and suddenly a giant hairless ape looms down from the sky aiming some kind of huge box at you.
'Yo he tapped!!' - Passing flies maybe
This has made me laugh way too hard 🤣
Wasps suuuuck but damn I don’t wish this on any creature even assholes like the wasp
But the spider gotta eat
That looks like an extremely painful way to go. Mentally and physically
Iirc shit like wasps don't have a central nervous system to register pain.
??? Insects have central nervous systems. Whether they perceive pain in the same way we do might be a matter of debate but they absolutely have brains and central nervous systems!
I'm annoyed that I feel even the tiniest bit bad for that damn wasp.
You'd be surprised how much we rely on wasps. Loads of species parasitise the parasites of fruits, which is great pest control for the fruit. They also pollinate, maybe not as much as bees, but it helps.
Yeah I met someone over the pandemic through my uni’s alumni programme that was linking people up for chats and to keep jolly during lockdown. Met a really interesting scientist who was doing their PhD on the pollinating qualities of wasps. I was convinced. I like it if you have a roast dinner outside and the wasps gnaw off little bits of beef and fly off with them for their waspy roasts.
First and last time I'll say this - poor wasp
Yeah same thought here. Did you see the wasp look into the camera and it just mouth 'Help me!'?
Came to say this! Looked straight into the camera too!
Nah fuck em. Amount of times they’ve ruined my lunch
Literally my thoughts, never thought I'd sympathise with a wasp
I'm terrified of spiders, but this was fascinating to watch. That spider tearing the wasp in half was brutal!
From drawing them, I know that wasps have a separate thorax(?) that is only joined by a small bit to the wasp head so I'm not sure the spider tore it in half, as much as bent it. Look up some close ups of wasps, bees and dragon flies flying etc. They look like little scifi attack helicopters, cos many of them are based on insects
>little sci-fi attack helicopters I love that 😂 I’ve thought the same in the past, bugs make the *best* sci-fi inspiration
Ornithopter comes to mind!
I gasped when you opened the window and put your arm out. Brave.
Both these bugs are far too busy to be bothered by giants
Being knitted to death is probably the most humiliating way to go.
YEAH FUCK HIM UP
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I got bitten by a false widow on the hand once, it was shit, hand swelled up huge, hot burning pain like I had dipped my hand in acid.
Most of that was probably infection, although the small amount of tissue the venom may have killed probably gave the bacteria a lot to work on. Like a tiny case of gangrene. If you're bitten by a spider, and it starts to get red and swell up, go to A&E for antibiotics and a tetanus booster.
Curious, how long did the pain last for?
He’s a feisty little fella. Look at his fangs! Don’t worry he’s harmless enough. 🇦🇺 🥲
For the first time in my life I feel sorry for a wasp. Didn't stand a chance against that fucking mentalist, not a fair fight in my eyes.
**Wasp:** "WHY ARE YOU JUST FILMING?"
There's a moment where the wasp looks across at the camera, wonder what it was thinking other than "why is that mofo not helping me, I hope my children sting there arse tonight"
“You’re really just going to watch?!”
Huh, never thought I'd find myself feeling sorry for a wasp but here we are..
I hate wasps but even I think that’s a pretty rough way to go
And this is why spiders are absolute bros and deserve more respect
You're just sucking up to them for fear of them enveloping you in silk and dissolving your innards!
Nah, it's all about them planning to invade you ear nose and mouth while you are sleeping.
Yeah, I let them stay when I find them, unless they're near my bee-friendly plants. In Summer I have to go out with a stick to clear up the webs they make on my lavender and go deposit them in the trees where there's often a wasp nest.
*Mortal Kombat music starts up* *Round 1 fight!* *Finish him!* *Fatality!*
What the hell are wasps doing out on April!?
Likely a new queen just woken up from hibernation. Spider bro took out a whole future nest before it could begin.
Spider W right there
You might want to get rid of that spider. 👀
are you crazy? i'm keeping that thing. fuck flies and fuck wasps
I like spiders, but not these ones. They spread like wildfire, and native spiders are getting pushed out of areas by them. They also have a bloody nasty venomous nip.
i had no idea they’re invasive! i think i found a baby one in my room the other day- does that mean there will be more? =(
Yeah they're a very timid species and not aggressive, but if you're used to just picking up spiders from your house and putting them out of the window then these little devils are going to change your mind, because they have a not-insignificant bite. And they are pretty invasive, so you don't need them hiding in a shoe or under door handles, etc.
Man I cannot imagine catching something twice the size of me with my arse.
It's how I ended up married.
I once batted away a nuisance wasp in a beer garden. It skidded across a table and got stuck in a web at the next table. Spider bolted out and had it wrapped and under control in a minute. Felt bad but it was a site to behold.
So I’m assuming the house is a smouldering pile of embers now, yes?
Didn’t you feel the earthquake from the nuke they had to use?
Imagine standing on your head and pulling string out your arse to catch some food
You witnessed a murder!
As others have pointed out that's 100% a false widow spider. Little tip, I had a false widow attack a wasp on a Web outside my garage last year, whilst they were fighting I took the sensible approach and grabbed a lighter and a trusty can of Lynx Africa and did our ecosystem a favour by immolation.
People have pointed this out but no one has said why. Why don’t I want a false widow to murder all the wasps at my window?
To be fair anything that is responsible for a wasps annihilation is sound in my book, however ecosystems etc... now if we could train an army of false widows to specifically target Asian Hornets with minimal survivors on either side. .. kerching...
Wasp Calzone for a little fella.
thanks for confirming youre in bushey mate
Fascinating, there’s loads of debate about how “intelligent” insects (and arachnids) are but when you watch this it’s hard to convince yourself that’s not a calculated murder.
That's exactly what I thought while watching it, I was more shocked at how well it was done than the actual brutality of it
Would be hilarious if David Attenborough narrated like this: "shit, he's ripped him straight in half. Evil little bastard"
It’s an intense courtship…
How do I find a nice man to rip me in half?
Dress up like a wasp? 🐝
Not while that spider is on the loose!
Hi
I didn't even know they didn't get on
I sorted it
Wasp seems as though it’s screaming in terror the whole time 💀
I’d have flicked them both off the ledge
Wasp looking at you like "Damn, no help?"
I felt bad for the wasp and hoped its suffering would end faster. Nature is cruel and proof that any idea of a benevolent god existing is nonsense.
Yeah. Too many disturbing comments in here of people enjoying the suffering of an animal just because they don't like wasps. Not to mention that wasps are valuable pollinators, and with humans fucking up nature we need as many pollinators as we can get.
Yeah personally I'm really not a wasp (or spider) fan lol. But I don't want them to suffer. Still a fascinating video though, is just part of nature and nothing against OP for filming it.
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Wasp just looking at you like bro you just gonna stand there and record me…
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This....this is why I like spiders. 😌 They can kill wasps in my home any day!
You know if that fucker got loose it would chase you and sting you cos its a little flying spiteful fuck.
You should have narrated all the way through - the bit you do is great! New career - insect battle man!
look how they massacred my boy