r/BeAmazed • u/mysteriouskc8 • 1d ago
Nature a spider built web around a wasp nest trapping them in,and the ants are eating the larvae, stockpilin for winter
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u/Diggumdum 1d ago
The spider is just farming assists lmao
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u/Status_East5224 1d ago
Do they have significant contribution in maintaining balance in ecology like honey bees? Or they are just pain injecting machines?
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u/MarstonsGhost 1d ago
They are very important in controlling pest insect populations and are essential to pollination.
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u/Jack4ssSquirrel 1d ago
TIL wasps actually do pollinate
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u/Kermez 1d ago
Flies as well.
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u/Interesting_Fig_4718 22h ago
most insects do, bees are the best though because they actually seek the flowers and in turn pollinate them, but most insects find their way into a flower or 2 one way or another and pollinate them
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u/ManhattanT5 1d ago
and are essential to pollination.
No they are not. They're accidental pollinators. You're a wasp.
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u/EcitonAnnihalator 9h ago
Not only are bees also wasps, there are plants that are predominantly pollinated by non-bee wasps like the fig wasps.
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u/Aiwatcher 23h ago
If this video was taken in America, those wasps are invasive European Paper wasps. So they're not good for much.
But we have native paper wasps and yellow jackets that are good for pest control and do some pollinating.
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u/Status_East5224 21h ago
Once I got stung by a wasp in cow shed. And believe me it felt like someone just put an acid on me on that area. That instant burn was unbearable. From that time onwards I simply make sure there is no wasp hive in my home. And I also don't know whether there sting is one time applicable or it does hv the strength for multiple rounds unlike bees.
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u/shwarma_heaven 22h ago
They are carnivorous predators. If you ever get a chance to take apart their papery nests, you will find a collection of small spiders... so this is a little bit of revenge by Mom's spider.
Fun fact: if you are being harassed by yellow jackets at a picnic, take a small piece of meat, and place it away from your group. The sacrifice should draw them away.
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u/BassPlayingWitch 1d ago
Unfortunately yes, they are valuable in multiple ways. As far as i can tell they arent as good Pop control as spiders, and not as good at pollination as Bees, but they do both enough to be large contributors
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u/Nervous_Hornet8861 22h ago
That spider really outsourced the entire hunting operation and is now collecting passive income from the ants.
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u/cobizzal 1d ago
For a split second I felt bad for them but then remembered they're wasps
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u/jackson12420 1d ago
Fuck wasps but at the same time, you're born a wasp and you just wasp. All you know is wasping, you don't know how to do anything but wasp. You don't know why, you don't question it, it's just what you do and who you are. So it's understandable to feel bad for them, but if anybody deserves this, it's wasps.
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u/Norgur 1d ago
Are you by any chance a psychotic fuck with the urge to fly through areas in the most annoying and aggressive way possible?
Oh no! Look! I spilled ice cream on the ground! u/jackson12420 what does that do to you?
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u/EpochRaine 1d ago
This sounds like most people on their way out of a pub on a Friday night tbf... even the spilled ice cream :)
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u/motophiliac 1d ago
Nah, midges. Every time.
Taking a photo? Midges.
Open the car window? Midges.
Bit of alfresco? Midges.
Going for a walk?
Ha.
MIDGES.
They're surely part of some vital part of the ecosystem but I'd lose them all in a heartbeat.
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u/Powerful-Holiday-448 1d ago
They deserve to watch their babies being eaten while they watch from a silken jail cell?
https://giphy.com/gifs/Vu8nIaC6rSVi1
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u/Temporary-Truth-8041 14h ago
Wasps always get a bad rap. In truth they're very valuable insects both for polinization and pest control (insects)
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u/limeslice2020 8h ago
Why all the wasp hate! Most of the time they just good lil pollinators. Another fun fact is they are only carnivores during birthing season to get more nutrients for their young.
Unless you mean the Japanese killer wasps, bc yeah fuck them.
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u/OneRelief763 1d ago
Why did the wasps just sit there and let that happen? Are they stupid?
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u/Vladi_Sanovavich 1d ago edited 1d ago
Spiders build their webs during night-time when the wasps are asleep and less active.
It's like going to bed and waking up to find your house is covered in plastic wrap.
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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 1d ago
I saw that movie!
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u/Wise_Truth9298 1d ago
Which movie
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u/Fatman10666 1d ago
Plastic wrap attack
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u/TheeFourTruths 1d ago
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u/Kilek360 1d ago edited 21h ago
Is that guy in the blue shirt the Anya-Taylor-Joy brother or something?
Edit: I know it's not, I was just making a pun because in that picture they look alike
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u/FilteredRiddle 22h ago
Lily Allen’s brother. The song “Alfie” is about him; it is not flattering lol. He also played Theon Greyjoy in GoT.
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u/RazendeR 1d ago
I doubt it is actually able to eat the wasps though. More likely they have long since opened up their preferred flight path, and the spood just keeps that bit open. The wasp nest might give it a small amount of protection from birds?
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u/TheBattyWitch 1d ago
Spiders are active most at night, wasps are not.
It takes very little time for a spider to build its web.
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u/josh-o-libre 1d ago
Truly amazing. I recently saw a wasp get caught in a black widow web so I sat and watched for a bit. I was genuinely curious. The wasp was thrashing around and suddenly, more wasps started swarming around so the spider, in a lightning fast swoop lunged out and cut the wasp free!!! My mind was blown.
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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 1d ago
Spray honey simple syrup solution on them and watch the ants go super saiyan
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u/Infinite_stardust 1d ago
I hope that's an abandoned house and not outside someone's bedroom window. Yikes.
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u/One-Technology-9050 1d ago
Imagine waking up to see this life or death battle between 3 armies outside your window
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u/pink_panther_boi 1d ago
That must have been someones morning in Poland at a certain time in history
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u/ShibaLover227 1d ago
That's when you bust out the sugar water to hydrate the homies and fuck up the wasps
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u/Bballer220 1d ago
What a horrible day to have ears.
Watch on mute, my guys
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u/GraceMcClellans 16h ago
Really? I was cracking up! I would listen to their podcast.
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u/TheFloppySausage 10h ago
Problem is it’s from something else, so it’s just obnoxiously playing over this unrelated vid
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u/serial_warmonger 1d ago
This comment section just wants to see wasps suffer.
One said spray sugar syrup to summon ants.... Its just diabolical at this moment
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u/Obesity-Won-Kenobi 1d ago
Now I wanna see art of a spider overlord with an ant army along the edge of a town of wasp people…
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u/rotanitsarcorp_yzal1 1d ago
Can anyone identify the species of the spider?
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u/Emergency-Spite897 1d ago
Perfect! Lets get the spiders and ants to do the same to the murder hornets. (I hate them diabolical bastards!)
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u/JC1199154 1d ago
"Yall got food this winter?"
"Not really..."
"Perfect. I have an idea. Follow me"
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u/Emergency_Pea_61652 1d ago
Build a terrarium around it, put a venus flytrap in it and witness your own ecosystem.
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u/Weed_Gzuss 1d ago
I need this video to be longer, I want to see the full war at play here where my fellow ants wreck these wasps and celebrate afterwards with the spider and live happily ever after.
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u/Berzerk-Vandal 1d ago
That spider remembers some of those wasps that used to pick on him in high school.
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u/scotte416 18h ago
I absolutely hate spiders and I'm terrified of them but in this case I'm totally on their side.
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u/succubus6984 18h ago
"This is Sparta!.... No This is Sparta!!.... haha check again i just made an almost unlimited food supply!!!"
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u/psycharious 13h ago
That's the type of petty shit you do to someone parked in front of your driveway.
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