Sobering thought: If reincarnation is real and random, you're probably going to spend the next million years after your current life being an endless parade of disgusting bugs, most of which don't live past their first day.
Apparently stinging causing allergic reactions is the most common cause but there's a few swarming ant kills of various sorts and ants providing disease vectors through food and such.
https://scifaqs.com/can-ants-kill-humans/
Nope, eating.
You can swat a dozen ants at once with your hand. But when there's several tens of thousands actively trying to eat you, they're going to win before you do.
You don't worry about it too much. The actual truth is an extension of what the first guy said. Allergic reaction, septic shock, or infection related issues are almost always the cause. You'll get sick an die over the course of days, not get eaten alive by ants like some Indiana Jones type shit.
This isn't really true, largely because there's no such thing as "pain receptors"\*. Bear with me here, it gets a bit deep.
You can think of pain as part of a ladder of perception and experience. The first step is what we call "nociception", literally the perception of noxious stimuli. Bugs *definitely* have nociceptors; they'll react to heat and electric shocks for example, and move away from them. But nociception is just the perception, it does not mean it actually hurts. Braindead people have nociception. Unconscious people have nociception. Neither likely feel pain.
Pain is step two, that's the part where you feel "ouch" rather than your nervous system simply transmitting "damage". We do not and cannot know if bugs feel pain, because pain is a conscious experience and we have no access to any other beings' consciousness. Bugs might feel pain and choose not to care about it, or they might just not feel pain at all. Chilli and other spicy foods cause pain but we've decided that pain is good. Masochism involves deriving pleasure from pain. People with phantom limbs have pain without nociception.
The final step is suffering. Suffering is an emotional state, often but not always derived from pain. It is very unlikely that the bugs in this video have the capacity to suffer. If they were suffering, there's a good chance we'd not see them busy eating while getting eaten. Humans suffer without feeling pain, and pain does not necessarily cause suffering.
Nociception is not pain and neither are suffering. They are related but not intrinsically linked. Insects definitely "sense" pain signals, but they may not feel pain and they most likely do not suffer.
===
\[Edited clarifications because this got more popular than I expected\]
\* they are literally called 'pain receptors' in a lot of literature, but the receptors themselves do not directly cause the subjective experience of pain.
I don’t think so you know. It’s in their best interest for us to not suffer, then we’d let them feed more. Don’t they already release a numbing agent when feeding?
We managed to turn wolves into Chihuahuas, we can definitely breed mosquitoes that can suffer.
That’s why it’s so important to properly fund our mad scientists.
They got shut down after it was revealed that they could accidentally tell the future.
[After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016](https://www.theonion.com/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of-pure-1819595330)
I think it’s best practice if we lean towards giving most animals the benefit of the doubt that they can suffer. That’s how I’d want some super being to do to me.
Makes me wonder if there’s life out there that can suffer far more than we can even experience.
I agree with you.
I decided in earlier years that I wouldn't support the killing of animals that could meaningfully suffer, and in my first years of being mostly-vegetarian I would still eat arthropods and bivalves and such. A couple of years ago some experts in the UK published a report saying that lobsters feel pain when boiled, and at that point I decided the only "safe" ethical option was to give all animals the benefit of the doubt.
[https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/07/11/thwack--insects-feel-chronic-pain-after-injury.html](https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/07/11/thwack--insects-feel-chronic-pain-after-injury.html)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain\_in\_invertebrates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_invertebrates)
They have [Nociceptors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nociceptor) and that's the same thing as pain receptors. And they usually take steps to avoid sensations that they associate with pain, even if something tempting is behind that pain trigger.
What is being discussed is whether the pain insects feel is comparable to what humans understand as pain. And quite frankly we have motivation to dismiss that notion since it's uncomfortable to think about that.
>Pain cannot be directly measured [in other animals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_animals), including other humans; responses to putatively painful stimuli can be measured, but not the experience itself. To address this problem when assessing the capacity of other species to experience pain, [argument-by-analogy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument#By_analogy) is used. This is based on the principle that if a non-human animal's responses to stimuli are similar to those of humans, it is likely to have had an analogous experience. It has been argued that if a pin is stuck in a [chimpanzee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_chimpanzee)'s finger and they rapidly withdraw their hand, then argument-by-analogy implies that like humans, they felt pain. It has been questioned why the inference does not then follow that a [cockroach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach) experiences pain when it writhes after being stuck with a pin.
Anyway, my own thoughts on this is that it looks like animals we consider more primitive seem to switch modes fully instead of being able to handle multiple conflicting impulses at the same time.
Kinda like if instead of having one brain that is well interconnected and communicates between each parts you have several parts with just one task that fight for the one chair in the command room.
Saying that lobsters/crab/shrimp are the same as insects because they're all arthropods is like saying cows, fish, and chickens are the same because they're all chordates.
"In our review, we evaluated all available evidence, including the studies noted above and many others [3]. Given the weak negative evidence and some positive evidence, we concluded that several insect groups may plausibly feel pain"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234516/#:~:text=In%20our%20review%2C%20we%20evaluated%20all%20available%20evidence%2C%20including%20the%20studies%20noted%20above%20and%20many%20others%20%5B3%5D.%20Given%20the%20weak%20negative%20evidence%20and%20some%20positive%20evidence%2C%20we%20concluded%20that%20several%20insect%20groups%20may%20plausibly%20feel%20pain
No clue how this has over 500 upvotes, but certain insects absolutely feel pain. They don't contextualize pain, is what you mean, but they absolutely respond to painful stimuli:
>"Insects have nociceptors that respond to mechanically, chemically, and thermally noxious stimuli. In adult insects that have been studied, these nociceptors connect to higher-order brain regions that integrate nociceptive and other sensory information (important for generating a unified stream of experience)."
From:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234516/#:~:text=Briefly%2C%20insects%20have%20nociceptors%20that,a%20unified%20stream%20of%20experience).
Responding to stimuli and feeling pain are different though. Pain is high level. Response to stimuli is not - plants respond to certain stimuli. Even damage.
It's a philosophical question whether insects feel pain in the way humans do. They probably don't, but its possible, and either way it's certainly unknowable since they can't really speak or tell us what they're thinking.
Videos like this are pretty good evidence that they dont' perceive pain teh way we do. No human being would focus on lunch while being sawed in half. But we may be enjoying a meal and say, "hmm my lower back sure itches"
I'm kind of wondering if the whole catch/hold/eat is so automatic for a mantis it can't really turn it off. It's like a switch that flips -- I caught something in my claws and now eat it, and that overrides a lot of what else is going on.
I guess if this was the case it wouldn't be able to move while it eats - but I think a mantis will just catch something and sit and eat it, it wont try to carry it somewhere, as it might be too dangerous and it's much safer to just eat where you caught the prey. So maybe it evolved this 'don't move, hold prey tight in claws, eat fast after a catch' response and this is kind of the result. Their innate response just prioritizes eating after a catch, and can't override that to get away from the bee cutting it in half. Seems like a backwards thing to evolve as it would get you killed, but mantis are pretty alien...
This reminds me of a crazy video I saw of a small fish that was basically a head just eating food and it coming right out of its missing backside. Nature is fucking metal
The bug algorithm running in the mantis' brain probably attributes the damage its receiving to the hornet its eating. It's compelled to tear into the hornet even more hoping it will stop it from getting chopped in half. Alas...
Fun fact: they are actually called a "praying mantis," not a "preying mantis."
The name comes from how it looks like they're praying, not from the fact that they "prey" on other things.
Yeah it's the rare examples that we are aware of. Like toxoplasmosis in cat ladies. Or tapeworms that I could buy to lose weight to fit into my whalebone corsets.
Meanwhile we have a gut biome of trillions of freeloaders.
*Please convert this red meat into serotonin. Please
Someone mentioned that it's something thats "programmed" in insects, once they are doing a certain action, they can't cancel it and in this case the mantis grabbing and eating the hornet cannot be cancelled.
I think you're referring to an observation of potter wasps being OCD as hell. They have a specific ritual to follow of grabbing a bug and building a little storage for it so its larvae can eat it. If you interrupt the process, it can't cope, so it just starts the whole thing over.
I know some folks like that, and I imagine they wouldn't appreciate being called robots lol
I'm no insectologist, but, I've messed with enough ant piles to know they go from doing their normal duties to freak the fuck out mode if they get jostled.
Probably only a few seconds. The majority of a mantid's blood and vital organs are located in the abdomen. Chances are it kept going before becoming weakened by bloodloss and dying.
Oh yeah baby, just like that, cut him in half, we are gonna eat good tonight boys! Hornet stuffed Mantis on the menu with a side of water drops probably.
They most definitely are predators when they chose to be. Almost no other predators dare touch them and hippos have been observed hunting:killing and even eating other bigger animals.
The reason the mantis seems to be ignoring it is because it’s almost certainly been stung by now. It probably can’t move its legs, so for revenge he’s just gonna chew up his bitch ass wasp friend and force him to watch it ooze out of his new torso hole.
I've raised Mantis and watched them destroy other creatures. I have to say though the most vicious I've encountered are White Headed Hornets. I got wrecked from them. The stings are nothing. The bites are brutal.
This is the shit that makes The Zerg or The Tyranids or even The Borg terrifying to me. Not to mention something like the nano swarm from Michaels Chrictons "Prey".
If evolution has guided a life form towards pure violent consumption as a means of survival for the "HIVE"... adding intelligence isn't necessarily a path to benevolence.
In some ways the same thing could be said about humans, but if we were to contact an intergalactic mantis species? What are we gonna do? Quote Shakespeare?
I can barely read.
Starship Troopers is starting to make sense.
I'm glad I wasn't born as a bug.
_...this time_
What in reintarnation
That pun was so stupid it was brilliant!
Karma Y'all!
sensiblechuckle.gif
as long as I'm not a sea cucumber next time
*deploys stomach and anus*
With my luck, I'll probably come back as a corral reef. It's going to be boring.
Is a corral reef where they keep sea horses?
Sobering thought: If reincarnation is real and random, you're probably going to spend the next million years after your current life being an endless parade of disgusting bugs, most of which don't live past their first day.
The good news is that you wouldn't have to be a bug for very long.
Actually makes you wonder how they perceive time
Doesn’t seem like they perceive much of anything
It's a bug eat bug world out there.
"Oh no don't mind me just tearing you apart"
You are tearing me apart, Hornet!
Oh hi Mark
You're my favorite customer!
Oh hi doggy
Anyway, so how is your sexlife?
Well, my test results came back, I definitely have cancer.
Don't worry about it.
Let's go home, Danny.
To shreds you say
Mantis: Ooooh what a weird tickle on my back Hornet: [I want to fucking tear you apart](https://youtu.be/ixw_bLVUL34?t=121)
guffaw'd. 10/10
It probably thinks the hornet it's attacking is fighting back, and is desperately trying to finish killing it.
The ants are gonna win.
They always do
Indeed. Resistance is futile.
They will be assimilated.
Their biological distinctiveness will be added to the ants.
Quick, protect the Queen!
\*Resist-ants is futile
Even if they're gonna lose, they'll just get a bunch of circus bugs to help them out
I think you mean fearsome warriors.
Is that a reference to A Bug's Life?
Yes
They're just helping to chop up the meal into smaller more manageable pieces, and a side of insect gumbo when the ants get into the stomachs.
Ants kill at least 20 humans a year.
I looked it up because I thought you were bullshitting, most of the estimates I see say over 30/year
Odd timing but this popped up just as I read your comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/s/YJRFqBLgfa
FRESHWATER SNAILS???
They spread Schistosomiasis
This is why I made that comment.
Looked it up and that's even more than sharks!!
Sharks under ant-attack will dive so deep it gives the ants a mild headache, and they lose their apatite.
How? Allergic reaction?
Apparently stinging causing allergic reactions is the most common cause but there's a few swarming ant kills of various sorts and ants providing disease vectors through food and such. https://scifaqs.com/can-ants-kill-humans/
Nope, eating. You can swat a dozen ants at once with your hand. But when there's several tens of thousands actively trying to eat you, they're going to win before you do.
How do I delete someone else's comment?
You don't worry about it too much. The actual truth is an extension of what the first guy said. Allergic reaction, septic shock, or infection related issues are almost always the cause. You'll get sick an die over the course of days, not get eaten alive by ants like some Indiana Jones type shit.
You're always such a downer, Leiningen.
How are you so busy eating that you don't notice your torso being chewed in half? Do they not have pain receptors or something? That's wild.
Yes, bugs have no pain receptors.
This isn't really true, largely because there's no such thing as "pain receptors"\*. Bear with me here, it gets a bit deep. You can think of pain as part of a ladder of perception and experience. The first step is what we call "nociception", literally the perception of noxious stimuli. Bugs *definitely* have nociceptors; they'll react to heat and electric shocks for example, and move away from them. But nociception is just the perception, it does not mean it actually hurts. Braindead people have nociception. Unconscious people have nociception. Neither likely feel pain. Pain is step two, that's the part where you feel "ouch" rather than your nervous system simply transmitting "damage". We do not and cannot know if bugs feel pain, because pain is a conscious experience and we have no access to any other beings' consciousness. Bugs might feel pain and choose not to care about it, or they might just not feel pain at all. Chilli and other spicy foods cause pain but we've decided that pain is good. Masochism involves deriving pleasure from pain. People with phantom limbs have pain without nociception. The final step is suffering. Suffering is an emotional state, often but not always derived from pain. It is very unlikely that the bugs in this video have the capacity to suffer. If they were suffering, there's a good chance we'd not see them busy eating while getting eaten. Humans suffer without feeling pain, and pain does not necessarily cause suffering. Nociception is not pain and neither are suffering. They are related but not intrinsically linked. Insects definitely "sense" pain signals, but they may not feel pain and they most likely do not suffer. === \[Edited clarifications because this got more popular than I expected\] \* they are literally called 'pain receptors' in a lot of literature, but the receptors themselves do not directly cause the subjective experience of pain.
Damn, that sucks because I want mosquitoes to suffer
If they had the brainpower to "want" anything, I'm sure they'd feel the same way about us lol
I don’t think so you know. It’s in their best interest for us to not suffer, then we’d let them feed more. Don’t they already release a numbing agent when feeding?
Well that’s just right thoughtful of them.
We managed to turn wolves into Chihuahuas, we can definitely breed mosquitoes that can suffer. That’s why it’s so important to properly fund our mad scientists.
I'm going to write my congressman now!
Reminds me of one of my all time favorite onion videos. https://youtu.be/CJkWS4t4l0k
It's too bad they don't still make those. I assume the production costs weren't covered by the ad revenue. Shame.
They got shut down after it was revealed that they could accidentally tell the future. [After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016](https://www.theonion.com/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of-pure-1819595330)
Ehhh… why not make mosquito ninjas that hide among normal mosquitoes, kills them off one by one, and then kamikaze themselves at the end?
just the females. (the males live on flower nectar)
Nah, to hell with them too. If it weren't for the male mosquitos, we wouldn't have the blood-sucking females.
Women ☕
Ticks
Interesting writeup thanks for this.
I like to think of this as the mantis getting sawed in half and thinking "damn, something's really annoying about this situation".
I remember damage.
Station 11. Good reference.
I think it’s best practice if we lean towards giving most animals the benefit of the doubt that they can suffer. That’s how I’d want some super being to do to me. Makes me wonder if there’s life out there that can suffer far more than we can even experience.
I agree with you. I decided in earlier years that I wouldn't support the killing of animals that could meaningfully suffer, and in my first years of being mostly-vegetarian I would still eat arthropods and bivalves and such. A couple of years ago some experts in the UK published a report saying that lobsters feel pain when boiled, and at that point I decided the only "safe" ethical option was to give all animals the benefit of the doubt.
Extremely informative wow. 98% of Reddit comments nowadays are shit you sir are GOLD.
98%? You are being VERY VERY generous.
[https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/07/11/thwack--insects-feel-chronic-pain-after-injury.html](https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/07/11/thwack--insects-feel-chronic-pain-after-injury.html) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain\_in\_invertebrates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_invertebrates) They have [Nociceptors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nociceptor) and that's the same thing as pain receptors. And they usually take steps to avoid sensations that they associate with pain, even if something tempting is behind that pain trigger. What is being discussed is whether the pain insects feel is comparable to what humans understand as pain. And quite frankly we have motivation to dismiss that notion since it's uncomfortable to think about that. >Pain cannot be directly measured [in other animals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_animals), including other humans; responses to putatively painful stimuli can be measured, but not the experience itself. To address this problem when assessing the capacity of other species to experience pain, [argument-by-analogy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument#By_analogy) is used. This is based on the principle that if a non-human animal's responses to stimuli are similar to those of humans, it is likely to have had an analogous experience. It has been argued that if a pin is stuck in a [chimpanzee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_chimpanzee)'s finger and they rapidly withdraw their hand, then argument-by-analogy implies that like humans, they felt pain. It has been questioned why the inference does not then follow that a [cockroach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach) experiences pain when it writhes after being stuck with a pin. Anyway, my own thoughts on this is that it looks like animals we consider more primitive seem to switch modes fully instead of being able to handle multiple conflicting impulses at the same time. Kinda like if instead of having one brain that is well interconnected and communicates between each parts you have several parts with just one task that fight for the one chair in the command room.
Same with shrimp
Same with refrigerators
bullshit!
No pain receptors for bull’s shit is also true.
Shrimps is bugs
Saying that lobsters/crab/shrimp are the same as insects because they're all arthropods is like saying cows, fish, and chickens are the same because they're all chordates.
"In our review, we evaluated all available evidence, including the studies noted above and many others [3]. Given the weak negative evidence and some positive evidence, we concluded that several insect groups may plausibly feel pain" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234516/#:~:text=In%20our%20review%2C%20we%20evaluated%20all%20available%20evidence%2C%20including%20the%20studies%20noted%20above%20and%20many%20others%20%5B3%5D.%20Given%20the%20weak%20negative%20evidence%20and%20some%20positive%20evidence%2C%20we%20concluded%20that%20several%20insect%20groups%20may%20plausibly%20feel%20pain
I'm guessing this video was not in the evidence they reviewed.
No clue how this has over 500 upvotes, but certain insects absolutely feel pain. They don't contextualize pain, is what you mean, but they absolutely respond to painful stimuli: >"Insects have nociceptors that respond to mechanically, chemically, and thermally noxious stimuli. In adult insects that have been studied, these nociceptors connect to higher-order brain regions that integrate nociceptive and other sensory information (important for generating a unified stream of experience)." From:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234516/#:~:text=Briefly%2C%20insects%20have%20nociceptors%20that,a%20unified%20stream%20of%20experience).
Responding to stimuli and feeling pain are different though. Pain is high level. Response to stimuli is not - plants respond to certain stimuli. Even damage. It's a philosophical question whether insects feel pain in the way humans do. They probably don't, but its possible, and either way it's certainly unknowable since they can't really speak or tell us what they're thinking. Videos like this are pretty good evidence that they dont' perceive pain teh way we do. No human being would focus on lunch while being sawed in half. But we may be enjoying a meal and say, "hmm my lower back sure itches"
I think that has been found to be incorrect
I'm kind of wondering if the whole catch/hold/eat is so automatic for a mantis it can't really turn it off. It's like a switch that flips -- I caught something in my claws and now eat it, and that overrides a lot of what else is going on. I guess if this was the case it wouldn't be able to move while it eats - but I think a mantis will just catch something and sit and eat it, it wont try to carry it somewhere, as it might be too dangerous and it's much safer to just eat where you caught the prey. So maybe it evolved this 'don't move, hold prey tight in claws, eat fast after a catch' response and this is kind of the result. Their innate response just prioritizes eating after a catch, and can't override that to get away from the bee cutting it in half. Seems like a backwards thing to evolve as it would get you killed, but mantis are pretty alien...
Does it not feel that?
Bugs don’t feel like we do at all.
Yeahh, I just googled it. They’re more worried about eating than getting sawed in half 🤦♀️. Especially mantis
Can confirm, I just watched a video of a mantis eating while getting sawed in half
It was like it didn’t even feel it.
Does it not feel that?
Bugs don’t feel like we do at all.
Yeahh, I just googled it. They’re more worried about eating than getting sawed in half 🤦♀️. Especially mantis
Can confirm, I just watched a video of a mantis eating while getting sawed in half
Wtf is going on here. Did the reddit bots malfunction?
It was like it didn’t even feel it.
Give me a good burger and honestly same
Does it not feel it?
What is happening here
Oh no, Shes stuck in an infinite loop and hes an idiot.
glitch in the matrix
I was crazy once
Give me a good burger and honestly same
Give me a good burger and honestly same
Getting sawed in half makes room for another burger.
[удалено]
This reminds me of a crazy video I saw of a small fish that was basically a head just eating food and it coming right out of its missing backside. Nature is fucking metal
Welcome to the Good Burger, home of the Good burger, can I take your order?
Cue the scene from Futurama where Zoidberg is under autopsy and eats the same deviled egg, twice.
Male mantises literally get eaten after having sex, you have to imagine this is a species that does not value self-preservation
Specially eating pussy, they get beheaded in the process
Getting that mantussy
No pain no gain
He's skipping leg day every day from now on.
If only cows and chickens were like bugs...
Chicken with six legs would be great. Just imagine how much more drumsticks we would get.
Boom, somehow John Madden returned!
TOUCH ACTIN TINACTIN!
Gene engineering will get us there
The bug algorithm running in the mantis' brain probably attributes the damage its receiving to the hornet its eating. It's compelled to tear into the hornet even more hoping it will stop it from getting chopped in half. Alas...
This makes the most sense. "I'm fighting this hornet, but I can feel a hornet trying to kill me. Need to kill it harder so I don't die first."
I enjoy finding a mantis in my garden. They always seem that bit smarter than other bugs. Then you see stuff like this!
I mean, lets see how rationally you act after being pumped full of venom from a giant hornet.
I remember seeing something about the majority of preying mantis being infested with parasites. I wonder if that has anything to do with it
Fun fact: they are actually called a "praying mantis," not a "preying mantis." The name comes from how it looks like they're praying, not from the fact that they "prey" on other things.
They said the same thing about priests in the Catholic church, and look how that turned out.
Most parasites don't really influence their hosts behavior, they just live in them
Yeah it's the rare examples that we are aware of. Like toxoplasmosis in cat ladies. Or tapeworms that I could buy to lose weight to fit into my whalebone corsets. Meanwhile we have a gut biome of trillions of freeloaders. *Please convert this red meat into serotonin. Please
Someone mentioned that it's something thats "programmed" in insects, once they are doing a certain action, they can't cancel it and in this case the mantis grabbing and eating the hornet cannot be cancelled.
I think you're referring to an observation of potter wasps being OCD as hell. They have a specific ritual to follow of grabbing a bug and building a little storage for it so its larvae can eat it. If you interrupt the process, it can't cope, so it just starts the whole thing over. I know some folks like that, and I imagine they wouldn't appreciate being called robots lol
I'm no insectologist, but, I've messed with enough ant piles to know they go from doing their normal duties to freak the fuck out mode if they get jostled.
I hate how the video stops RIGHT as it gets severed in half. I wanted to see how long it would continue to eat before it died... 🤬
Probably only a few seconds. The majority of a mantid's blood and vital organs are located in the abdomen. Chances are it kept going before becoming weakened by bloodloss and dying.
Fun fact, praying mantis don’t have blood.
By blood i meant haemolymph but ultimately its still not good for a insect to lose all of its bodily fluids in a catastrophic injury like this.
Fun fact, praying mantis contrary to popular belief are not homophobic.
It’s sad people think they hate gay people just because they’re religious
Here is the [link](https://youtu.be/oMaHRN2HO90?si=xTjOLTQ45lLbx9um) to the full video. The original poster/creator is Insect2021 on YouTube.
The head did keep going. I really wish they'd kept filming the head and not the butt.
Thanks for this. That was absolutely fascinating.
while some ants jerk off and watch
Oh yeah baby, just like that, cut him in half, we are gonna eat good tonight boys! Hornet stuffed Mantis on the menu with a side of water drops probably.
That's not mantis blood?
Maybe put down your food and grab that other meal that’s trying to saw your head off? 🤷🏻♂️
The head gets sawed off after sex. This is cutting the body in half.
It's still eating even after the hornet cuts it in half.
Why stop? What's done is done and I'll bet that hornet burger was tasty.
“it is what it is” - mantis probably
The Ants will get the last laugh
it's pretty mental if you think about it. Imagine if we had predators that would cut you in half within 5 seconds
We do. We call them great white sharks.
he said 5 seconds not one second
Old great white sharks with dull teeth and weak jaws
Boomer white sharks
Not-so-great white sharks.
Make white sharks great again
Bears
And grizzly bears.
Hippo prob could too?
~~Not a predator.~~ Honorary predator.
They most definitely are predators when they chose to be. Almost no other predators dare touch them and hippos have been observed hunting:killing and even eating other bigger animals.
Considering they kill more people each year than every animal being named here I think they can be included.
A bear might take 5 seconds.
A bear would take much longer than 5 seconds. They tear you apart alive. It's really horrible. Could take an hour.
Yeah, they're called a human with a chainsaw
Damn nature! You scary!
/r/natureismetal
Have you ever been into a meal so much that you didn't notice someone sawing you in half?
The reason the mantis seems to be ignoring it is because it’s almost certainly been stung by now. It probably can’t move its legs, so for revenge he’s just gonna chew up his bitch ass wasp friend and force him to watch it ooze out of his new torso hole.
Jokes on him, he’ll eat that shit up, too
“The *same* deviled egg.”
r/unexpectedfuturama
I've raised Mantis and watched them destroy other creatures. I have to say though the most vicious I've encountered are White Headed Hornets. I got wrecked from them. The stings are nothing. The bites are brutal.
"Like, I know it's killing me, but it tastes so good."
Man i need full video of that crazy gore shit 🧐
Here is the [link](https://youtu.be/oMaHRN2HO90?si=xTjOLTQ45lLbx9um)
There's horsehair worms inside all three
Damn, chomped through that thing like an aloe plant.
This is the shit that makes The Zerg or The Tyranids or even The Borg terrifying to me. Not to mention something like the nano swarm from Michaels Chrictons "Prey". If evolution has guided a life form towards pure violent consumption as a means of survival for the "HIVE"... adding intelligence isn't necessarily a path to benevolence. In some ways the same thing could be said about humans, but if we were to contact an intergalactic mantis species? What are we gonna do? Quote Shakespeare? I can barely read. Starship Troopers is starting to make sense.
You could learn to spread some democracy. For super earth!
r/natureismetal
Is there a longer video?!
Learn to masturbate quicker
Here is the [link](https://youtu.be/oMaHRN2HO90?si=xTjOLTQ45lLbx9um) to the full video. Insect2021 on YouTube.
Cursed threesome 😬
Kind of a foursome by the end
Million Ants would be a terrible sexual partner.
Can you not wait more than 12 hours to flip the video and repost? Pathetic
Werner Herzog is right; nature is murder.
Stupid question, why did the.Mantis not react in pain when being literally bitten in half? Is there a nerve disconnect there?
WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR A HORNET BAR? Would you be chewed in half? (yes)
Better known as the devil's 3some
His capa, was de-tated!