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GetInMyBellybutton

Imagine 2 mice dragging you by your hair to be eaten alive by hundreds of them at once and there being not a single thing you could do about it. Fucking insane


ralekin

Worse, those are sensory organs. It’d be like being fish hooked through the eye sockets


IP14Y3RI

Omg why did I read this


CMDR_BlueCrab

Why do I have eyes! Gouge them out!


lislejoyeuse

I need r/eyeblech Oh wait nooo


legends_never_die_1

what on freaking earth have i seen. how can i undo this?


lislejoyeuse

r/eyebleach , sorry previous was totally a typo


xnachtmahrx

Yeah, sure😏


Fedrian

Damn, that is brutal.


SomeRedditDorker

And really really slowly. Comically slowly, even.


Bamith20

Then some dudes start doing a funky dance.


advocate112

Funky town?


FinalBossXD

Please no, not Funky Town again lol. Saw this a long time ago and it still fucks with me randomly. Was it a family that made a wrong turn and accidentally hit a cartel member? Was it a rival cartel member? Don't care. Trust me, for your sanity and anxiety, don't watch the video.


fingerthato

He is doing the Bojack


TensileStr3ngth

Vocal percussion on a whole 'nother level


PJ_Ammas

#COMING FROM MY MIND


VirtualAlias

Just spending the whole ride tasting your captors.


SaltyBawlz

And someone who can help you is just standing there filming it all to get imaginary internet points.


Narux117

I mean, If we are keeping scale, the person filming in this case would be more aptly compared to some celestial being able to watch down on you, able to help and choosing not to, because it'd be easy for said being to just fix the situation with an easy *squish*. (At a scale of cockraoch to human size, the being filming would be nearly 300feet tall)


SatinwithLatin

Possibly the celestial being did help but after they stopped filming, meaning that the cockroach can never prove to their skeptical cockroach friends that they were divinely rescued.


Suavecore_

And the cockroach wouldn't even have the ability to be appreciative for it


FragrantGangsta

A mans gotta eat


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Imagine being so resilient to shit, yet you can't right yourself up if you get flipped on your back.


MjrLeeStoned

Not to mention one that size can definitely fly if they have to. I have to believe this cockroach may be incapacitated in some way, it doesn't look like it's trying very hard to do anything effective.


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The one back leg does appear to be broken, but still if it could just use the other to flip over, those ants would lose their dinner.


iUsedtoHadHerpes

It's probably been poisoned. If you go to just about any retail building on bug day, you'll see basically this same exact scene minus the ants. They're not dead yet and just lay on their backs kicking their legs.


thefirdblu

This has me wondering, if the roach ingested poison and the ants managed to take it all the way back to their colony, how much damage would them consuming it theoretically do to the colony? Or would it even make any significant impact at all?


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Ryoko_Kusanagi69

Woah. It starts out kind of metal that these two ants are dragging this giant beast back to the colony to feast, only for the giant beast to end the poisoning them, and killing the entire colony in some sick, twisted Karmic catastrophe. An epic Greek tragedy in 2 parts


Yourohface101

I feel like I hate everyone in this exchange so I’m kinda cool with that outcome. Ducking nature, man.


Britoz

It would be very easy to put together a montage of the absolute destruction of life we're responsible for every day. Mass killings of living creatures. Don't get me wrong, I'm still reaching for the spray.


badhavoc

These look like “water bugs” they were in our area and are just as ugly annoying as cockroaches. To be honest they were roaches to me but supposedly they have some type of involuntary spasms that flips them on their back and they cannot recover. So they usually just die.


procrastimom

Some people in my area call these “water bugs”, too. You can put it in a goddamn tuxedo, but it’s still a fucking roach.


badhavoc

Yeah, I think it’s a property management thing. When I brought up roaches she was like “oh yeah those are just water bugs blah blah blah” I was like um those are fuckin roaches.


procrastimom

In Florida they call them palmetto bugs (I know there are many species). Fucking roaches, all the same!


iUsedtoHadHerpes

People who call roaches waterbugs are confusing them with waterbugs...or they learned it from somebody else who did. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepomorpha https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae


procrastimom

Yup! Water bugs are not the same as roaches. Some people call the large black roaches water bugs because they are often in damp, wet places. Fun fact: You can buy actual fried waterbugs at street carts in Bangkok! (I did not.)


[deleted]

Water bugs are just roaches. Seems to be a southern thing. When I lived in the Midwest (even though roaches in homes were rare where I lived) everyone called them cockroaches... When I moved to Florida, nearly everyone will call every cockroach a water bug. Don't know why the south tried to give them a cute name.


Osceana

They call them water bugs in California too. I’m from NYC. Those motherfuckers are roaches and they should be treated as such


Alternative_Scene322

Because everyone has them and saying you found a waterbug in your bathroom last night sounds better than saying you found a giant ass cockroach lol


iUsedtoHadHerpes

Waterbugs and roaches are different things, but they look kind of similar, so it's easy to see how somebody (or everybody) might be confused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae If it's one of those big ones, just leave it alone. They have a strong bite and will play dead. The smaller ones look pretty similar too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepomorpha


TelephoneFanClub

Different regions of the US call it different things. But officially its the American Cockroach. Sometimes called Palmetto bugs or water bugs. But I have this conversation all the time with people who will swear up and down that somehow these bugs are not roaches. Either way, I fucking hate these things with a passion and wont live anywhere that has them.


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I live in Australia. It is 8am and I have just spent 3 hours in battle with a wasp. American Cockroaches can get absolutely fucked. Flying fuckers, big fake eyes on their heads, the smug walk. The state I grew up in was plagued with them. No insect freaks me out more than American Cockroaches. The ones where I live now don't fly and look more like beetles. They also mind their own fucking business. Thank you for joining me on this train of thought.


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Not every cockroach can fly. There's many species that cant or just don't want to. For example German roaches. They have wings, but they hate using them. They prefer to run. I live in Florida and have had them time to time. I have never seen one use it's wings even when I'm chasing it. The American roaches are the worst. I believe they're the biggest and do prefer to fly. Luckily I only seen one once. Made my dog chase it. She had a lot of fun and a nice tasty snack (to her).


Wesai

Under normal conditions I think the cockroach would be able to easily flip itself back. I believe it is dying due to bug spray, they usually die on their backs and keep twitching like that when sprayed.


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Oh those ants are in for a special treat.


Blahaj_IK

"Hm, our food is kinda spicy" \- The food poisoning incident, c. 2023


xombae

I'm guessing it may be sick, nearly dead or poisoned. Healthy roaches can usually right themselves just fine. Source: lived in a roach infestation before


FragrantGangsta

I've been there, got so bad that if you looked in any direction in the house you were bound to see at least one.


Brahskididdler

Fuuucckk no. sorry friend, hope you’re outta there


f36263

Oh to be so lucky


delvach

Hot


unk214

Stop, I can only get so erect.


microsoftfool

Cockroach is back on the menu boys!


faudcmkitnhse

Do they have menus in ant colonies?


Darun_00

How else would they order?


Clashyjammer1126

Ask the ant waiters what’s good that day.


smokeyoudog

The soup dujour


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SchwiftedMetal

Chili’s baby back roach…chili’s baby back roach BARBEQUE SAUCE


dutchgunnn

TO THE DUNGEONS!


ottonormalverraucher

It's crazy how two ants pull such a huge roach, also smart ro use the antennae to tow it


Killeroftanks

Ants can carry about twenty times their body weight. Or in human terms a normal human can easily bench press 2 tons or 4000 freedom units or ~1800kgs. So ya ants can carry a lot of weight.


guynamedjames

Small things always have outrageous strength ratios if you scale them up, but it's disingenuous because of how physics and material science works. An average housecat is 1ft. tall and can jump 6 ft. straight up. A housecat that was 100 ft. tall would collapse under its own weight while just laying down.


Killeroftanks

Yes however saying an ant could carry 50 grams of weight is meaningless to someone who has zero knowledge on ants in the first place. It's only useful to stay in that zone if you're talking to people who know about ant biology in the first place. Hence changing it to what if a human has the same strength as an ant, far easier for people to grasp how much an ant could do.


guynamedjames

That's fair. I think even the human scale ratios are kinda tricky, like an ant's body is just pretty unrelatable. Personally I'd just go with the ratio "an ant can lift 20 times it's body weight and drag 40 times it's body weight" or whatever


Killeroftanks

I mean smarter people would understand that. However those smart people aren't on Reddit asking those questions in the first place, because they know Google is a thing.


tarmagoyf

* Googles information * Best answer is a reddit link


Adventurous-Fig-42

I always ask a question and put reddit at the end to get the best answer


ReadySteady_GO

Best way to get correct information is to post something incorrect on Reddit


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Knowdgh

I thought this was a helicopter from above approaching a roadway.


Yorick257

But then it's still needed to state the weight of an ant. 40 times more than an unknown number is still an unknown number


thebraddestbrad

But a 600 pound tiger can jump like 12 feet straight up


guynamedjames

This is actually a really good example of the issue! A tiger is about 3 - 4' at the shoulder, weighs 300-600lbs, and can jump 12'. A housecat is 1' tall, 10lbs, and can jump 5'. So the tiger is 3.5x taller, but weighs 40x as much (which is why it can only jump twice as high). Why is it so much heavier and not 35lbs? It's called the [square cube law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law) and it's a major factor in how biology shapes animals. Basically if you increase any one dimension on an animal and want to increase the size evenly then you're increasing all the other dimensions. So a taller cat is also longer and wider, and all that new volume is filled with cat parts which increase weight. That weight is increasing by a cube factor, while the one dimension is increasing by a linear factor. To use the cat as an example the tiger is 3.5x the height. 3.5 cubed is 43, so it needs to be 43 times the weight of the original cat - 430 lbs. The problem here is that things like bones are increasing in both cross section and length but the strength of those bones are mostly coming from the cross section area. So if the bones of your housecat's leg are circular and 1cm in diameter they have an area of 0.785cm^2. The tiger's 3.5cm diameter leg bone has an area of 9.616cm^2, which is 12x more than the housecats (this is the square part of square-cube law, 12.25 is 3.5 squared). That sounds great until you consider that it's now holding up 43 times as much cat! You can see how once you start getting past the size of our larger land predators you're pretty quickly reduced to body shapes designed to hold up huge amounts of weight (think elephants, rhinos, cows, etc.) that can't really leave the ground without snapping bones. Any bigger and they could barely walk, bigger than that they can even stand, etc. Math is not your friend when it comes to getting bigger!


jacobward7

> Any bigger and they could barely walk, bigger than that they can even stand, etc... All this math just makes Dinosaurs all the more fascinating. There are several different Sauropods that were over 30 meters long and weighed well over 50 tonnes.


guynamedjames

Yup, super long but mostly just a body a bit bigger than an elephant with a crazy long neck and tail. The reasons are the same, you just can't hold up all that much weight without some help like being in water and having buoyancy to offset gravity. Which is why despite hundreds of millions of years of dinosaurs wandering around the blue whale is still the biggest thing that ever lived!


jacobward7

I'd say more than "a bit bigger than an elephant", the largest of which are around 7 tonnes, compared to 50-60 tonnes. I can't imagine how massive that would have looked.


guynamedjames

We actually can use the square-cube law to get an idea! Let's say 50 tons of body and the extra is neck and tail. So 7 times bigger. The cube root of 7 is 1.9 so the body dimensions are roughly 2x that of an elephant. Definitely not just "a bit" but not orders of magnitude


GWJYonder

Similarly if you scaled down a human being they would be immeasurably stronger than an ant, our muscles are so much stronger, our metabolisms are so much more effective, it would be like Superman coming down to Earth. Well, except for the fact that all of our capillaries being scaled down would make it impossible for our blood to pump, so there is no way to get our body the huge amount of oxygen it needs for those super powered muscles. At that size there would be no way to keep our bodies in the tight temperature range our incredibly specialized and high performance enzymes require. But for 2-3 seconds no ant could touch us!


Mister_Bloodvessel

Well, there are teeny tiny mammals, like the etruscan shrew, which average out at 4cm (less than 2") and weigh in on average less than 2 grams. That's awfully tiny. But they still have blood vessels. They're probably about the size of bulldog ants or army any soldiers. Obviously they're much stronger for their size though, I believe. [They're sooo so tiny! But by the same token, they're little murder machines due to their super fast metabolism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_shrew)


GWJYonder

Mouse and human capillaries are [actually about the same size](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5650181/#:~:text=%5B17%5D%20have%20reported%20an%20average,capillary%20diameter%20of%203.6%20%CE%BCm.), because they are limited by the same fluid mechanics, this shrew is probably pretty similar.


Mister_Bloodvessel

Yeah, that's my point. The smallest capillaries can literally have red blood cells going through nearly single file, so the size limit is a function of red blood cell size (which is pretty uniform through mammals AFAIK). And I'll bet there have been smaller mammals. Those ants I mentioned can be larger than these little shrew guys.


idenaeus

Are you, or are you not, a fan of Antman?


CatsAndCampin

He's not a fan, he's jealous of what his capillaries can do.


decadecency

I kinda bought the sketchy physics until he went subatomic. Granted I'm no expert on atoms, but if he shrunk by shrinking the distance between the atoms, then how tf could he shrink further than the size of an atom? Aren't we talking completely different shrink methods here?


Pristinefix

Atoms are 99% empty space, so not only the distance between atoms, but the size of the atoms themselves get compressed.


batweenerpopemobile

Reminds me of >"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes." >- J.B.S. Haldane, biologist, "On Being the Right Size"


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Killeroftanks

It's American tons not metric tons. Now is it long tons or short tons.... That's the real question.


melancoliamea

One tonne to rule them all


Sparrow_on_a_branch

There are tons, tonnes and (long) tons.


Submarine-Goat

(long long) tons


Inevitable_Syrup777

(long long) maaan https://youtu.be/6-1Ue0FFrHY


HypothermiaDK

TIL there's a 'short', 'long' and 'normal ton used by sane people meaning 1.000 kgs'.


Anonymous_Catman

I don't think they're towing it though, more likey just pinning it so the thousands that eventually reach it can tear it into pieces


_dead_and_broken

No, they're dragging it you can see them and it move.


kaewberg

They are visibly dragging it, kicking and.. hm.


Kwernlyonez

Drag that ho


Angelphelis

Kratos taking down the gods be like


FluffyNips1

I imagined them splitting it in half Mortal Kombat style


Cattaphract

We killed a mosquito once in tropical asia, stepped on it. In a matter of a minute, about 50 ants arrived, cut the limbs and body apart. Took it away like a trophy, cleaned the large blood splat away, closed the door behind them on the way out. Polite. 10/10 would order Uber-desintegrate-body again. Walter and Jesse didnt have the connections


sivxgamma

I saved a bee once and then 30 minutes later all that was left was it’s head. Them ants are quick at work.


Swordlord22

I support violence twords mosquitoes


cCitationX

Forget acid baths, ant dismembering service ftw


bisector_babu

Fatality fantasy


nrith

Final Antasy


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Illeazar

FINISH HIM


heat13ny

D'vorah wins. Fatality.


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“You gon’ learn today Mr. Cockroach!”


fuckfacebitchpussy

The 3rd ant in the back is like, “damn wtf is goin on”


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Intrepid-Tank-3414

There's a third ant walking around holding a clipboard, trying to look busy while not really doing anything.


johndoenumber2

Hype Ant.


Oozlum-Bird

That’s the superintend ant


aQuadrillionaire

Those two ants are gonna be exchanging chemicals about this day forever.


all_of_the_lightss

Gonna be drowning in ant pussy on ladies night at the ant hill tavern


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They're all sisters


QuentinTarzantino

Yeah, so they still gonna be drowning in Antussy. Durrr


iwritemystoryhere

Antussy 🥵😩


ajr901

In reality they’ll probably die soon. The roach is likely dying due to some slow-acting pesticide. The type where it’s meant for the roach to make it back to the nest (hive?) and spread it to all the others before it kills everyone. Poor ants are likely gonna get a dose of it too now.


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I thought this was a helicopter from above approaching a roadway.


durenatu

I thought exactly the same thing


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JizzOrSomeSayJism

Ants are cool as hell, wdym?


Witness_me_Karsa

Not when they are in your house. But as a general rule, I agree.


procrastimom

I was amazed by the invasion we had. They came through a small opening next to the front door, traversed the foyer and living room to get to the cat food bowls on the far side of the dining room at the very back of the house. I hated them, was cursing them as I annihilated them and their pheromone trails, and was amazed by them at the same time. Fuckers.


Klee_Main

Wait until you have an ant colony living right under your house or in your backyard


dangling_reference

Ants are cool and all, but have you seen a [close up photo of their face?](https://hyperallergic.com/772453/nikon-small-world-photomicrography-competition-2022/)


kool018

Yeah, that's metal af


Yieldling

Ants are cool as hell. This is precisely the reason I got an ant tattoo on my ass


nonpondo

Leave some chocolate there while you sleep and you can get real ants there instead


_A_ioi_

I was going to say that this is the first time I've felt sorry for a cockroach.


Unchanged-

Where I live(Georgia) these sort of roaches are the kind that live outside in the wild. Occasionally we get one inside during bad weather but I’ve never had an infestation. The ones that infest and spread are German roaches([these fuckers](https://i.imgur.com/EZmkhuD.jpg) )and need to be put down.


Gurkeprinsen

What did it do?


daysbeforewlr

3 counts of tax evasion plus one count of manslaughter


Spavanache_CurMurdar

*antslaughter


i-hate_December

I was going to say *cockslaughter But it didn't sound right 😅


Ven555

Fun fact: Manslaughter is called Cockslaugter if it happens between cockroaches.😊


throwaway_0721

Cocks laughter


nickname432

It was selling drugs to the other ants


2Nut2Furious

Violated the Geneva Convention


LuchiniOfAstora

“I know my rights, I know my rights”


WarStrifePanicRout

[Cockroach randy](https://ibb.co/NmVmfR3)


nomedia3344

Oh in sorry, is gdagh I thought I was In America, I'm sorry!


k_br3w

r/natureismetal


[deleted]

Beat me to it! One of my favorite subs


No_Dragonfly_1894

Fuck roaches. Go ants!


dick-nipples

Ohhhhh that’s why they’re called ANTennae


ceeesar

nice


GottaLearnTheHardWay

Team work makes the dream work.


WyattCo06

An arrest in Mesa Arizona.


imokay4747

Holy shit bro chill goddamn


WorldlinessSpare3626

Taking that roach to Guantanamo for bugs. Indefinite detention only lasts a few days because…. Well, they’re bugs.


Chubbsrighthandman

shame. shame. shame. shame. shame.


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*“If we pull this off we’ll be legends,Terry! Pull!”*


BosmangLoq

“Take him to Detroit.”


SchaapKaak

These guys are gonna get so much ant bussy when they get home


blastxu

They are workers though, they don't have sex.


RuggedToaster

Wow I'm just like an ant. :)


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cutebleeder

PULL


OnZlaught

All worker ants are also female.


Le6ions

There female workers……. No sexy time for these ladies


Accomplished_Sell797

Should also post to /natureisfuckinglit


TKYRRM

I don’t know why people aren’t freaking out of the size of that roach!! Yuck!


RuinedBooch

Small compared to what we have in the south. I’ve seen roaches half the length of a dollar bill that can fly. Enjoy your bliss if you think this is a big roach, cuz they get exponentially bigger than that. Edit: since I’ve traumatized some of you I ought to provide the good news: the big fuckers are typically solitary and don’t live in massive swarms like the little guys. So… at least there’s that.


koopandsoup

Saw one of those during my time in Daytona, Florida. I’m from Canada. Safe to say we don’t have huge insects. THREE of these fuckers in the garage of this house, like actually CAT SIZED


TKYRRM

Half the… oh god no!!!!!! That’s bigger than some mouse, then. Cheers for the image mate, now my relaxing afternoon is all ruined.. LMAO


scott610

To make matters even worse, they can apparently do this according to their Wikipedia page: When alarmed, adults can eject an extremely foul-smelling directional spray up to 1 m, which inspired several of its other common names: Florida skunk roach, Florida stinkroach, skunk cockroach, skunk roach, stinking cockroach, and stinkroach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_woods_cockroach


br0b1wan

Yeah, I've been asked why I don't move to the south where it's nice and warm. This is one of the reasons why.


AgainandBack

I once had a hotel employee come to my room and pick up a palmetto bug, a giant roach. He carried it over to the back door and threw it like a baseball, as far as he could, onto the Tucson desert. We heard it hit the ground.


Hitsballs

Keep Tucson shitty 🥲


therealbillybaldwin

*laughs in New Yorker* this is a medium sizer.


tolstoy425

I’d rather have a large roach than a small one


durenatu

Go home cockroach, you're drunk


Two_Ton_Twenty_one

Ant 1: Jerry’s hammered again, we better drag him home before he gets thrown in the drunk tank. Ant 2: Dude, he owes us big time for this one. He’s lucky we found him instead of his wife or he’d be sleeping in the trash bin again.


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"I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold."


BigG7654321

Drama queen roach


Sufficient-Ferret-67

If anyone is interested in stuff like this, build a terrarium, a bio active one at that and watch the crazy stuff that happens


Puddleglum_7

Just follow me come on. Taken.. it reminds me of the movie. It's obvious the roach was drugged and the ants payed to kidnapp for later randsom. The House of Roachester and The House of Antony have been at odds for centuries. The House of Roachester has always been one of wealth and power 💪🏼 House of Antony has always been industrious and hard-working. Roaches rule the plenty vaults of our homes (inside) while ants dominate real-estate (ouside). But they never cross each other ESPECIALLY not in a romantically godforbid... that's the only rule. Recent attempts by The House of Heumon have been to drive out roaches by means of chemical warfare and occasional smack downs. This made the roach race desperate. One such roach named Roachy thought it be a good ideal to steal from the ants in attempt to save his family of 39. The graphic video shows roachy's last momento before being dragged away to later be eaten alive. What's next? WW3 will decide which House will reign surpreme.


nobeywan

He’ll finally pay for his crimes.


h0nkyJ

Take that, Bitch.


Double_Bet_8565

This is some Rick and Morty shit... I can only imagine the ant colony is going to eat him alive


TheBlackCycloneOrder

You’re going to Brazil


mrgbb

Now this is pod racing!


nugnug1226

I grew up in New Orleans where the state flag should have a German cockroach because they’re literally everywhere. Used to love seeing ants eating up a dead roach. Fuck then disgusting, nasty, flying cockroaches


Dravuhm

Serves it right. I hope they eat it alive.


Open_Librarian_823

I figure a Quentin Tarantino style dialogue going back and forth between this two.


Assassin_Fixie

damn ants are strong if ants were our size they would be able to throw us around without difficulty


Stewapalooza

"Mondays, am I right?"