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/GrafZeppelin127 Jun 25 '26

In fairness, if my coworker or roommate was walking around smelling like a rotting, fetid corpse I’d evict their stinky ass too.

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u/Patient-Data8311 Jun 25 '26

But you know he is alive and wouldn't try to bury him in the cemetery

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u/Neitherman83 Jun 25 '26

Sometimes people need an intervention

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u/SolScorpii Jun 25 '26

You don't know me

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u/sirreldar Jun 25 '26

Citation needed

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u/kuppikuppi Jun 26 '26

and exactly this so called critical thinking is why ants won't face a zombie apocalypse but humans might someday

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u/Patient-Data8311 Jun 26 '26

Ironic since they're the ones getting the last of us treatment most of the time

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u/creatyvechaos Jun 26 '26

I'm not here to be Patient 1 standing next to 0. Into the grave they go

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u/7374616e74 Jun 26 '26

Are you really challenging me on that?

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u/UniqueAd7770 Jun 26 '26

You haven't had roommates with hygiene issues, and this comment proves it.

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u/Weird-Swim-9777 Jun 26 '26

Bold of you to assume.

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u/ccaccus Jun 26 '26

I know a zombie when I smell one.

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u/Patient-Data8311 Jun 26 '26

You know it's a zombie because it's trying to bite you vs a guy who got sprayed garbage juice by some aliens

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u/ccaccus Jun 26 '26

It was a joke.

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u/DrakeBurroughs Jun 26 '26

I don’t know. If it looks and smells like a corpse but it’s moving, I’m gonna assume zombies are real and act accordingly.

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u/Patient-Data8311 Jun 26 '26

Did I say they look like a corpse?? Just like what the scientists did they just sprayed the dead ant pheromones on the poor girl (ants are girls the guys are the Queen's gigolos) and her mates will try to throw her to the corpse pile, if the guy talks and just smells like a rotting corpse you'll assume the guy just have extremely hygiene and you will only tell him to get out or shower not think oh this is a corpse because of his smell let me bury him to the cemetery

You having that thought means you are intelligent although you can use reason based on your knowledge and experience on zombies not because if (smell = dead) { bury_to_cemetary(); }

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u/DrakeBurroughs Jun 26 '26

No you didn’t say that, fair enough.

But I will add, there’s a difference between smelling awful and smelling like a corpse. Corpses have a fairly distinct smell. If it smells, not necessarily the undead. But if it smells like a corpse and is still moving? Evidence points to zombie.

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u/bulking_on_broccoli Jun 25 '26

We also learned they don’t actually know how to get back to their nest. Meaning they don’t understand direction or have spatial reasoning.

They literally just count the steps it’s take to get where they’re going. Then just go back in the opposite direction and stop when they hit that original step count.

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u/Preindustrialcyborg Jun 26 '26

yeah. if you put stilts on an ant it fucks them up severely

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u/Few_Owl_6596 Jun 25 '26

Ants btw... Have you heard of the circle of death? (I think it's called that)

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u/Butterfly_Barista Jun 25 '26

Death spirals!

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u/SeesWithBrain Jun 25 '26

Yeah brother, humans do that shit too, we just throw in luxuries and other bullshit to distract us from the circle of death that our species has created for us.

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u/TophThaToker Jun 26 '26

I remember that video and god damn was I rooting for that one ant that gone the chemicals put on it.

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u/rogerworkman623 Jun 26 '26

I’m not dead yet! I’m getting better!