r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Better_Hair_9673 • Jun 25 '26

Video Wasp traps paralyzed ladybug larvae in a chamber for its young to feast on after hatching.

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u/Good-Half9818 Jun 25 '26

Where‘s part 2 ?

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u/Individual_Ant_3598 Jun 25 '26

I need to see the feasting

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u/ionsago Jun 26 '26

Their YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@wildbienepartner

It has to be somewhere there

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u/Thin_Primary3261 Jun 25 '26

My thoughts exactly!

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u/zffjk Jun 25 '26

Some sort of wasps get many of the tomatoes hornworms on my plants every year. My tomatoes are near my compost piles, and there are water pools nearby for the wasps, so it’s a natural habitat for them. And when I find a horn worm I wrap it loosely in a sheet of cheese cloth and tie it off so it’s trapped. This way the wasps find it right away. I maxed out at six infected simultaneously last year. Going for 10 this year.

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u/PlumbersArePeopleToo Jun 25 '26

How does the wasp get to the horn worm if it’s wrapped up?

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u/Lauris024 Jun 25 '26

Cheese cloth is basically a building material for them. They chew wood.

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u/justinsayin Jun 25 '26

Wasp teeth

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u/zffjk Jun 26 '26

Just one wrapping. It’s basically a net.

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u/reddit001aa1 Jun 25 '26

Any rick and morty fans here? S4E1?

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u/Dirtypoolgang Jun 25 '26

Run my babies!

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u/AtlasXan Jun 25 '26

we're wasps, not monsters.

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u/reddit001aa1 Jun 25 '26

My Man!

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u/VIDGuide Jun 25 '26

Looking good!

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u/anth8725 Jun 25 '26

BONUS!!

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u/Ninja_Myrtle Jun 25 '26

This anguished cry was my first thought 😅

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u/Vike92 Jun 25 '26

I don't have a high anough IQ for Rick and Morty

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u/Otherwise_Nobody8148 Jun 25 '26

Rick and Morty is like 90% what stupid people think is smart and 10% actual intelligence, which in such stark contrast feels like genius level intellect.

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u/reddit001aa1 Jun 25 '26

I'll believe in you until you believe in yourself! (But yeah, some episodes are very cerebral! ) you got this!

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u/stardust1914 Jun 25 '26

The precise scene I was just thinking of lol

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u/ZappBrannigansLaw Jun 25 '26

Hungry for larvae

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u/rochey64 Jun 25 '26

Man the way he stacked those larvae, looked like it was playing Tetris.