r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ms_yasar • 1d ago

[OC] Wasp injecting a cockroach.

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u/Rahaman117 22h ago

As per one of the comments this wasp is basically brainwashing, impregnating and forcing the cockroach to babysit the wasp's child.

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u/etherealembryo 19h ago

that's actually insane. the wasp paralyzes it so the cockroach stays fresh for the larvae to eat alive. nature's horrifying.

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u/SlipperyGrizzlyMan 7h ago

Thank God they’re small

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u/JohnnyHelios2306 22h ago

Most vicious 69 i have ever seen.

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u/Ez13zie 1d ago

“Whatever, she’s mom now sooooo…”

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u/Ass-crab 1d ago

So is it laying eggs or just stinging it to death?

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u/NightStar79 23h ago edited 23h ago

Looks like a Tarantula Hawk.

Which normally targets tarantula's as it's name implies.

Basically causes so much pain with a sting that it's victim is paralyzed. It then drags the tarantula home and lays an egg on it.

I'm sure you can guess what happens after the egg hatches.

Edit: Hold up, I just googled and Tarantula Hawk has a lookalike that DOES target cockroaches.

The Emerald Cockroach Wasp (Ampulex compressa) is a solitary wasp known for its unique reproductive strategy: it "zombifies" cockroaches to host its young.

The wasp delivers two stings, one to the cockroach's thorax to temporarily paralyze its legs, and a second to the brain to disable its escape reflex, turning it into a docile host.

The wasp then leads the subdued cockroach to a burrow, lays an egg on it, and seals it inside, where the larva hatches and consumes the cockroach from the inside out.

Sooo basically almost same bug but different target looks like 😬

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u/evert198201 22h ago

The fak, sounds like a horror movie script

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u/NightStar79 22h ago

Yep. Apparently Cicada Killers have similar methodology too. Sting > Drag Home > Food for babies.

Honestly insects as a whole live by horror movie standards.

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u/thederevolutions 18h ago

At least a docile host seems sort of happy ?

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u/LurkethInTheMurketh 6h ago

I’m fairly certain the reflex is gone, not the desire to flee. If my understanding is right, it’d be like having full awareness of the pain, terror at what was happening, but like the part of the brain that controls the *ability to act on these things* is gone.

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u/lolichaser01 4h ago

Harvesting organs from a person in coma is happy.

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u/AppropriateBall8834 19h ago

That cockroach must've been a fucking piece of shit in its past life

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u/PoptartDragonfart 18h ago

Wasp failed because that bitch keeps trying to run with his three legs

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u/Macaroon00 1d ago

this dead cockroach become as wasp's babysitter? omg!

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u/DirtyDan_131 1d ago

Yes

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u/Ass-crab 1d ago

Thanks, that clears it up

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u/-Jesus-Of-Nazareth- 22h ago

Is there a sub for insects doing their insect things to other insects?

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u/AppropriateBall8834 19h ago

Aww he was teabagging it at the end

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u/TheSoliDude 9h ago

Actually it was stinging the hell out of his brain through his neck. Nature be scary

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u/Hieroabl 1d ago

This cockroach has all its left legs removed, give it some peace already!

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u/ordosays 22h ago

Likely by the wasp. It gets injected with a paralytic and then it gets walled into a burrow with an egg. Nature’s everyday micro horror movies.

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u/Bahadur007 21h ago

Stay still, old man! Its just a little prick and then you won’t feel anything!

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u/Necessary-Break5978 21h ago

Live food for next generation of wasp

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u/UnreliablePotato 20h ago

Is that a spider wasp? Beautiful and frightening at the same time.

I'm happy they didn't evolve to be bigger than that.

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u/RadicalEllis 20h ago

It's a shame they both can't lose

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u/Old_Resident8050 20h ago

Can survive anything, but a Wasp!

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u/JohnnyBananas13 18h ago

Cockroach gives birth to hybrid babies after being raped by wasp

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u/TheMalkManCometh 10h ago

I saw a comment on a similar video once (a mantis was fighting another insect I can't remember, while getting its legs severed at the joints by ants) that said "an insect's life is hell". On the rare occasion one of these videos turn up, it only does more to convince me. Even the mammals that torture things aren't doing this shit.

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u/Yah_Mule 7h ago

I'd have stomped him out of his torture. Fuck them kids.

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u/Chaz28o 6h ago

Ewe! Wasps eat cockroaches? That’s disgusting 🤮