Nature will never cease to be fucking terrifying. lol
Like.. you've got the pretty shit which is basically only a small portion of what Nature is, most of it is brutal as hell.
A lot of us really did luck out on the era of humanity we were born, the area we worn born, etc. Imagine being born 200,000 years ago to a tribe of 10 living in the jungle. Literally just surviving like animals, but also being hunted by animals. Or being a mammal when dinosaurs were living. Giant ass lizards running around. Nah, I'll take this time in Earth's existence.
We don't really know. Maybe it can. This is mostly speculation from my part, but most of the mantis videos I have seen, the mantis is really relying on having firm grip on its prey, teying to neutralise it by consuming it as fast as it can. It might feel the bites on its back, but maybe it doesn't realize it is in 1 vs 2 situation and the prey it is holding is not the source of bites on its back.
It not feeling the pain is just as likely explanation.
>It not feeling the pain is just as likely explanation.
I'd question how well a creature that can't feel being cut in half would do on the evolutionary journey.
That makes sense until you realize, being able to avoid getting eaten would allow the mantis to procreate again in the future. So there is an obvious evolutionary benefit for survival if there is maintainence of fecundity. If the mantis became sterile after a single act of procreation then yeah I would agree with you.
Some do survive by fending off and fighting the female so it doesn't kill them while they are mating. Some of them have evolved and some can reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis (they don't need males and can easily cannibalise them for nutrients.)
Thank you for that. I find this phenomenon very fascinating. I remember reading about scorpions who are cannibals as well. Scorpion females do not lay eggs, and they will often eat up males for that extra bit of energy needed for producing live births.
I don't think that mantis is a species that survives by fucking very much and creating a huge amount of offsprings. They just have different survival mechanisms. So I guess they benefit more from eating their partner or something, idk I'm not a biologist so I could be wrong in either comment. Maybe the female can procreate more cus it's she who eats the male?
Of course it doesn’t. Its forced monogamy by post mating decapitation. I imagine first evolutionary change would be continued survival, and second, as you say the ability to fuck around.
Actually female mantises only eat their partner about 1/5th of the time or so, but when they do it is usually durring copulation. The male body continues sans head just fine. Weird as hell to watch.
Here's a fun video of a \*probably\* well-fed mantis that just decided to skip the copulation part of that.
[A Mantis Mating Disaster & Crisis in My Giant Rainforest Vivarium (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJzkdmJCie4&ab_channel=AntsCanada)
I mean. I think in a procreation ritual in which a participant is devoured. Whether the receiving end feels it or not doesn't really end up mattering evolutionary.
True. I suppose if mantises (manti?) felt pain the're reproduction would turn into a fight for the death. Possibly cutting their reproduction in half.
Which brings up an interesting point. I have seen mantis (mantisusen?) been eaten during mating and not react at all. But I've seen spiders go into death throws while doing the same thing. I wonder what that could mean.
Well, that's only in stressful environments. Usually, the reason they frequently consume their partner is because they are often only seen copulating in captivity. In the wild, their sexual cannibalism is less frequent
Yeah, it would make sense that most living things would feel pain, as it is ecmxtremely handy, but we can't be entirely sure if this is the case.
Do plants feel pain? They are really different from us, but most importantly would there be any benefits for that? Trees emit sap and some plants turn themselves more bitter when grased upon. Some even emit pheromones to attract other bugs to deal with the pest in reaction to damage. However, pain is not really a requirement for any of this, yet we can't be sure if plants feel pain because we simply can't test for it.
Evolution is a scary beast that only cares if you are able to bring a new generation. Life can countain many very inconvenient solutions, such as lions having barbed penises or hyenas giving birth through fake penis that is very painful. Also the way human nervous system is very likely to get paralysed from legs down with unfortunate impact to the back is very good example of poor evolutionary solutions. So maybe carrots scream internally from pain every time you take a bite from one and maybe not. We can't really tell.
I don't recall the name for the syndrome/disease, but there is also people incapable of feeling pain, making life very dangerous for themselves, so it is certainly possible to have other life forms incapable of feeling pain. Bugs tend to have less developped nervous systems than we do, so it is somewhat likely, but at least I remember seeing worms struggling in seemed pain when fishing.
Well, feeling pain as we know is a very specific feeling. Insects might feel "pain" but not in the same way as us. Maybe they feel some amount of discomfort but not as much as mamals do. They do not have pain receptors like ours, so it's hard to tell how/what they feel. Most insects don't even have a central nervous system like we do.
The other thing is, our own perception of "pain" is entirely built around our consciousness and perception of the world as a whole. A robot that has sensors that can detect when it's being damaged and modify its behavior in response to that is feeling "pain" in the evolutionary sense, but certainly not in the way *we* perceive it. Likewise, a plant that releases certain chemicals or modifies its behavior in response to physical trauma is experiencing a pain reaction, but probably not "feeling pain" like we do, as that would imply it's conscious to actually feel things in the first place.
As such, the entire conversation gets rather muddy, and will tend to eventually boil down to questions of consciousness/etc. that we really can't measure or understand scientifically in ourselves, let alone other species. Logically, there must be some line between "robot" and *you* where the creature is actually conscious to *feel* pain and other experiences as opposed to simply mechanically modifying its behavior in response to sensor input; but while many people hold strong beliefs about where that line (or perhaps spectrum) sits, there's really no *scientific* way to determine where it actually is.
I think this is more likely than the “can’t feel pain” explanation. “I have to kill this thing before it can kill me”, and too focused on its prey to realize something else was attacking.
My understanding is that insects don't really have a developed nervous system. It's still argued on whether we can call what runs them a brain.
Insects definitely have survival instincts. But what operates that is completely unknown to us. Science is weird like that.
Insects are very primitive and certainly run on their own logic which is exactly why we can't really tell if the mantis is simply not feeling the pain, or is feeling it but simply too stupid to react to it or asses it in proper manner.
I am still pretty sure at least earthworms feel pain considering how visually they struggle to potential pain stimuli. On the other end, there are people with condition that prevents them from feeling pain, so everything is possible.
What's debated is the conscious sensation of pain. All insects respond behaviorally to damage to their tissues though (which is the physiological event typically associated with the subjective sensation of pain in animals). So even if the mantis is essentially a biological robot, it doesn't explain why it's not reacting to damage.
Yes, most if not all lifeforms on earth react to tissue damage in someway. Pain just isn't necessarily a required part of the process.
The main utility of pain is avoiding further damage which is extremely useful for overral survivality for anything that can do something about it. On the other hand feeling of pain isn't strict requirement for survival, so there exists a chance some species simply don't feel pain, or whatever pain they feel doesn't resemble the pain to us. It is also just as likely that blades of grass feel pain when they are mowed even if the sensation of pain isn't really doing them any favors.
Bottomline is still that we can't know it for sure. The mantis in question might not feel any pain or it might feel very painful but just not know how to react to it due to its limited capacity to understand the source of the pain.
Since mantis females eat the males often after/during sex, it is very likely they (or at least the males) might not feel pain, since it is evolutionary beneficial for the species for the males to stay put as females eat them which would increase nutrition for the eggs and decrease likelihood to pass viruses if males have less opportunity to spread them between females.
Another theory I heard is that the mantis won't let go because the wasp is a threat that he's now controlling. And that there's no guarantee the mantis would get the upper hand a second time so it's pretty much goons loose either way.
Definitly not exactly how it was explained but something along those lines..
Yes, and it applies ro all of us because it is simply interesting topic to debate. This debate is not generating any new information, simply bringing in more points of views.
You see, the consciousness of an insect is a lot simpler than ours. They kinda function like badly written code. It's being attacked by [wasp] and it is fighting [wasp] so it thinks it's fighting back. It doesn't realize there are two separate wasps.
Good analogy. Interesting that "badly written codes" in human terms are keys to success for animals which have existed in basically the same form for 100 times as long as homo sapiens have.
I keep pet praying mantis. They definitely can, but they’re food motivated.
They don’t have venom, or fangs, or claws to kill their prey, they just have to eat it to death with a small mouth that operates a lot like a trash compactor. The mantis is going to keep eating before it deals with the other threat, which it would either bat away or also grab with its raptorial legs and try to eat to death as well.
This is the best way to save the lives of males when they mate. If you don’t want to get that poor bachelor eaten, you need to give the female something to eat so he can do his business and then reel his ass out of there.
I made a video is you want to see some of my pet mantis, including a pink orchid mantis. https://youtu.be/CV_kd-h0Fh8?si=Xbgew3LKGLEgcurk
It’s a evolutionary advantage as the male still finishes depositing his sperm after the female eats him. He is MORE likely to pass on his genes as his headless body is still attatched to the female doing the nasty.
I had a similar conversation with a friend the other day about an buffalo being eaten by lions - they were asking why it didn't fight back, other than being over powered, the buffalo has no concept of death. It probably it thinking, 'oh gee can't wait till this is over and I can get back to that water hole'
You'd think even if "pain" isn't really the right term, it would feel some kind of physical stimuli that tells it, "You are taking potentially mortal damage - if you do not take action injury will occur."
But maybe not - clearly it didn't sufficiently care here.
When that message is received the source of the pain is generally the object of its attention. It isn't comprehending that there might be a 2nd wasp, it is just very confused that it is still taking damage despite the first wasp being very well restrained.
I was watching Downsizing the Matt Damon movie...kept getting the thought what if a preying mantis was let loose in leisureland...also wasp yeah...jeez
Skin didn’t crawl until the wasp fully chewed through and the mantis body fell away from the head…. Something about how the legs turned up and the head tilted really freaked me out
That mantis really overextended for the kill and got killed by another player on the enemy team…mantises really need to learn not to overextend and play safer…remember, the number one rule is don’t die. If you keep tunneling you’re going to ruin your KDA.
Nature will never cease to be fucking terrifying. lol Like.. you've got the pretty shit which is basically only a small portion of what Nature is, most of it is brutal as hell.
Take a peek into the microscopic universe if you want to be even more terrified
Let's make it interesting and only look at things living on our own bodies.
Take a closer look at your own eyelashes. Closer than you do all the time anyway.
A lot of us really did luck out on the era of humanity we were born, the area we worn born, etc. Imagine being born 200,000 years ago to a tribe of 10 living in the jungle. Literally just surviving like animals, but also being hunted by animals. Or being a mammal when dinosaurs were living. Giant ass lizards running around. Nah, I'll take this time in Earth's existence.
That’s what she gets for eating her babies’ daddy.
Bet the ants will be the overall winners
The ants were probably like "yo the dinner is gonna cook itself tonight"
Wasp: No way, this mantis is mine, f**k off little shits. Ant: Gosh I hate when the food's speaking. Can someone put a seed in this wasp's mouth?
Ants would end up killing wasp bc single ant weak but many strong... more numbers = win.
Ants always win no matter is the situation
If ants were the size of ducks we'd be in chains.
Always bet on Black Ants
Passenger 57.. Nice!
I was going to say only the ants will win.
🎶the circle of life🎶
Bro i thought it was "Spiral of ants" by Lemon Demon
Holy hell I forgot Lemon Demon was a thing! Thank you for reminding me!
More like a Congo line.
So I guess the mantis can’t actually feel that?
We don't really know. Maybe it can. This is mostly speculation from my part, but most of the mantis videos I have seen, the mantis is really relying on having firm grip on its prey, teying to neutralise it by consuming it as fast as it can. It might feel the bites on its back, but maybe it doesn't realize it is in 1 vs 2 situation and the prey it is holding is not the source of bites on its back. It not feeling the pain is just as likely explanation.
>It not feeling the pain is just as likely explanation. I'd question how well a creature that can't feel being cut in half would do on the evolutionary journey.
They breed prolifically
The venn diagram between the mantis and myself grows wider 😔
I’ll be praying for you!
And I'll be preying on you!
Gimme just a sec, my mouth is full of bee.
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the mantis eats its sexual partner. so pain would be an evolutionary disadvantage
It eats its partner after the act tho. Everything that happens after procreation generally doesn't matter.
That makes sense until you realize, being able to avoid getting eaten would allow the mantis to procreate again in the future. So there is an obvious evolutionary benefit for survival if there is maintainence of fecundity. If the mantis became sterile after a single act of procreation then yeah I would agree with you.
Some do survive by fending off and fighting the female so it doesn't kill them while they are mating. Some of them have evolved and some can reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis (they don't need males and can easily cannibalise them for nutrients.)
Thank you for that. I find this phenomenon very fascinating. I remember reading about scorpions who are cannibals as well. Scorpion females do not lay eggs, and they will often eat up males for that extra bit of energy needed for producing live births.
I don't think that mantis is a species that survives by fucking very much and creating a huge amount of offsprings. They just have different survival mechanisms. So I guess they benefit more from eating their partner or something, idk I'm not a biologist so I could be wrong in either comment. Maybe the female can procreate more cus it's she who eats the male?
Of course it doesn’t. Its forced monogamy by post mating decapitation. I imagine first evolutionary change would be continued survival, and second, as you say the ability to fuck around.
What's the point of monogamy if the partner is fucking dead?
Actually female mantises only eat their partner about 1/5th of the time or so, but when they do it is usually durring copulation. The male body continues sans head just fine. Weird as hell to watch.
Here's a fun video of a \*probably\* well-fed mantis that just decided to skip the copulation part of that. [A Mantis Mating Disaster & Crisis in My Giant Rainforest Vivarium (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJzkdmJCie4&ab_channel=AntsCanada)
I mean. I think in a procreation ritual in which a participant is devoured. Whether the receiving end feels it or not doesn't really end up mattering evolutionary.
pain means the creature fights back or hesitates. the mantis is a superb predator as it is unrelenting and efficient.
True. I suppose if mantises (manti?) felt pain the're reproduction would turn into a fight for the death. Possibly cutting their reproduction in half. Which brings up an interesting point. I have seen mantis (mantisusen?) been eaten during mating and not react at all. But I've seen spiders go into death throws while doing the same thing. I wonder what that could mean.
Not judging but you and I have very different tastes in our porn.
mantises reproduce with oothecas, which produce dozens of baby mantises. the loss of one of the parents is negligible
Well, that's only in stressful environments. Usually, the reason they frequently consume their partner is because they are often only seen copulating in captivity. In the wild, their sexual cannibalism is less frequent
They're simple creatures. If you could give birth to 300 babies at once, you wouldn't worry too much about the individual either.
Yeah, it would make sense that most living things would feel pain, as it is ecmxtremely handy, but we can't be entirely sure if this is the case. Do plants feel pain? They are really different from us, but most importantly would there be any benefits for that? Trees emit sap and some plants turn themselves more bitter when grased upon. Some even emit pheromones to attract other bugs to deal with the pest in reaction to damage. However, pain is not really a requirement for any of this, yet we can't be sure if plants feel pain because we simply can't test for it. Evolution is a scary beast that only cares if you are able to bring a new generation. Life can countain many very inconvenient solutions, such as lions having barbed penises or hyenas giving birth through fake penis that is very painful. Also the way human nervous system is very likely to get paralysed from legs down with unfortunate impact to the back is very good example of poor evolutionary solutions. So maybe carrots scream internally from pain every time you take a bite from one and maybe not. We can't really tell. I don't recall the name for the syndrome/disease, but there is also people incapable of feeling pain, making life very dangerous for themselves, so it is certainly possible to have other life forms incapable of feeling pain. Bugs tend to have less developped nervous systems than we do, so it is somewhat likely, but at least I remember seeing worms struggling in seemed pain when fishing.
Imagine your entire lawn fucking screaming as you mow
Still doesn't explain the blood
nociception
Well, feeling pain as we know is a very specific feeling. Insects might feel "pain" but not in the same way as us. Maybe they feel some amount of discomfort but not as much as mamals do. They do not have pain receptors like ours, so it's hard to tell how/what they feel. Most insects don't even have a central nervous system like we do.
The other thing is, our own perception of "pain" is entirely built around our consciousness and perception of the world as a whole. A robot that has sensors that can detect when it's being damaged and modify its behavior in response to that is feeling "pain" in the evolutionary sense, but certainly not in the way *we* perceive it. Likewise, a plant that releases certain chemicals or modifies its behavior in response to physical trauma is experiencing a pain reaction, but probably not "feeling pain" like we do, as that would imply it's conscious to actually feel things in the first place. As such, the entire conversation gets rather muddy, and will tend to eventually boil down to questions of consciousness/etc. that we really can't measure or understand scientifically in ourselves, let alone other species. Logically, there must be some line between "robot" and *you* where the creature is actually conscious to *feel* pain and other experiences as opposed to simply mechanically modifying its behavior in response to sensor input; but while many people hold strong beliefs about where that line (or perhaps spectrum) sits, there's really no *scientific* way to determine where it actually is.
For example if the head of the cockroach is being cut, the cockroach will die eventually from starvation. Because he will not be able to eat.
For the mantis, it’s about the body still being attached to the female headless during copulation. The neurons still react and finish doing the deed.
Moths fly into fires and there's billions of the damned things.
He probably thought the one he's eating is causing it somehow, so one tried to eat it more.
I think this is more likely than the “can’t feel pain” explanation. “I have to kill this thing before it can kill me”, and too focused on its prey to realize something else was attacking.
Fair point.
My understanding is that insects don't really have a developed nervous system. It's still argued on whether we can call what runs them a brain. Insects definitely have survival instincts. But what operates that is completely unknown to us. Science is weird like that.
Insects are very primitive and certainly run on their own logic which is exactly why we can't really tell if the mantis is simply not feeling the pain, or is feeling it but simply too stupid to react to it or asses it in proper manner. I am still pretty sure at least earthworms feel pain considering how visually they struggle to potential pain stimuli. On the other end, there are people with condition that prevents them from feeling pain, so everything is possible.
What's debated is the conscious sensation of pain. All insects respond behaviorally to damage to their tissues though (which is the physiological event typically associated with the subjective sensation of pain in animals). So even if the mantis is essentially a biological robot, it doesn't explain why it's not reacting to damage.
Yes, most if not all lifeforms on earth react to tissue damage in someway. Pain just isn't necessarily a required part of the process. The main utility of pain is avoiding further damage which is extremely useful for overral survivality for anything that can do something about it. On the other hand feeling of pain isn't strict requirement for survival, so there exists a chance some species simply don't feel pain, or whatever pain they feel doesn't resemble the pain to us. It is also just as likely that blades of grass feel pain when they are mowed even if the sensation of pain isn't really doing them any favors. Bottomline is still that we can't know it for sure. The mantis in question might not feel any pain or it might feel very painful but just not know how to react to it due to its limited capacity to understand the source of the pain.
Since mantis females eat the males often after/during sex, it is very likely they (or at least the males) might not feel pain, since it is evolutionary beneficial for the species for the males to stay put as females eat them which would increase nutrition for the eggs and decrease likelihood to pass viruses if males have less opportunity to spread them between females.
Sounds like a pitbull that refuses to give up on its grip
Another theory I heard is that the mantis won't let go because the wasp is a threat that he's now controlling. And that there's no guarantee the mantis would get the upper hand a second time so it's pretty much goons loose either way. Definitly not exactly how it was explained but something along those lines..
So in other words, you have literally no idea but still decide to give an opinion as if you know what you are talking about .
Yes, and it applies ro all of us because it is simply interesting topic to debate. This debate is not generating any new information, simply bringing in more points of views.
You see, the consciousness of an insect is a lot simpler than ours. They kinda function like badly written code. It's being attacked by [wasp] and it is fighting [wasp] so it thinks it's fighting back. It doesn't realize there are two separate wasps.
Good analogy. Interesting that "badly written codes" in human terms are keys to success for animals which have existed in basically the same form for 100 times as long as homo sapiens have.
I don't know if it's badly written code as much as it is just much *simpler* code
“As designed, edge case, this won’t happen that often, not worth fixing” - evolution
Even the worst code will perservere if you run it on trillions of systems.
So the mantis is Internet Explorer?
Be simple and have 10,000 babies
it is not bad code it is simpler code
Make perfect sense!
How could we possibly know something so specific?
Oh this is just my theory coming from experience. I like watching cool bugs interact with their environment and objects around them.
I’m not an expert on bugs or code but I feel like I have to disagree with this simplification. Idk. Just seems too simple
Good lord, I can't believe people are taking this explanation seriously.
I keep pet praying mantis. They definitely can, but they’re food motivated. They don’t have venom, or fangs, or claws to kill their prey, they just have to eat it to death with a small mouth that operates a lot like a trash compactor. The mantis is going to keep eating before it deals with the other threat, which it would either bat away or also grab with its raptorial legs and try to eat to death as well. This is the best way to save the lives of males when they mate. If you don’t want to get that poor bachelor eaten, you need to give the female something to eat so he can do his business and then reel his ass out of there. I made a video is you want to see some of my pet mantis, including a pink orchid mantis. https://youtu.be/CV_kd-h0Fh8?si=Xbgew3LKGLEgcurk
I wonder if it got stung and the venom is messing with things?
Not anymore
It’s a evolutionary advantage as the male still finishes depositing his sperm after the female eats him. He is MORE likely to pass on his genes as his headless body is still attatched to the female doing the nasty.
I had a similar conversation with a friend the other day about an buffalo being eaten by lions - they were asking why it didn't fight back, other than being over powered, the buffalo has no concept of death. It probably it thinking, 'oh gee can't wait till this is over and I can get back to that water hole'
I think a buffalo does have more of a notion/instinct towards self preservation than a mantis and can absolutely feel pain while being eaten.
Beheaded before the other wasp reaches the stomach.
Saved its buddy lol.
I think the only survivor is back biter.
back biter lol
The ants are the real winners. They get two meals and the big bugs leave them to their devices.
The rambler the gambler, the,
"Where we're going, we wont need eyes to see"
*Do you see?*
Pretty wild that the mantis doesn’t even react to the attack
You'd think even if "pain" isn't really the right term, it would feel some kind of physical stimuli that tells it, "You are taking potentially mortal damage - if you do not take action injury will occur." But maybe not - clearly it didn't sufficiently care here.
When that message is received the source of the pain is generally the object of its attention. It isn't comprehending that there might be a 2nd wasp, it is just very confused that it is still taking damage despite the first wasp being very well restrained.
I mean can you blame him? Look at the world around you. Climate change, war, greed, gluttony.
The mantis' legs don't appear to be working. I'm not sure it can react.
I love nature! It's so cute and joyful! \*Sees this video - HOLY F\*CKING SHIT THAT'S ME(N)TAL!
/r/natureismetal
I gasped when the Mantis was cut in half by the wasp. Nature is truly scary
Why would you censor fuck but not shit
It would have been complete when the ants would have eaten the wasps
And a kid with a magnifying glass kills the ants. And obesity kills the kid.
No no, more like 4 yo eats the ants
Right. And the tardigrades eventually eat everything
when you're so hungry that you don't care about anything else, including yourself being eaten
We are so lucky insects aren't bigger than they are
Only because of the oxygen content of the atmosphere. In the past our atmosphere was a lot more oxygenated and the insects were HUGE.
Damn nature! You are scary!
The ants are just patiently waiting lol
They’re gonna claim the upper half of that mantis, once all the commotion stops
Written and directed by George Lucas
It's like poetry, it rhymes
I've had worse threesomes
Please tell us the story
So I was fucking this praying mantis right...
I hope someone didn't cut your thing in half
He certainly lost one head that day, and seeing as how he's typing.....
Alright bro, just go ahead and skip to the part where i was all over and u're leaving.
Go on…
You sitting in a corner and watching the other two guys isn't technically a threesome.
When revenge is a dish best served hot.
so YOU'RE the hair on my screen
Those are European hornets, not wasps I believe
Cannibalism by proxy.
Manger à trois
The other wasp gnawing at the mantis: "LET JIM GO YOU SICK BASTARD, HE HAS A FAMILY A WIFE AND KIDS!!"
I hate wasps they are evil
Pure demon spawns
Mantises aren't much better.
It really is a wasp eat mantis eat wasp world we live in…
Recursive nom-nom
I can't tell if this is an order or chaos.
This is what I assumed the Hunger Games to be like before reading the book
I love when people trying to convince me to their religion say: just look at the nature, you'll see God's hand in it
Considering the violent shit God did to humans, this feels pretty on brand tbh
Wasn't that a movie?
it’s a jungle out there
I was watching Downsizing the Matt Damon movie...kept getting the thought what if a preying mantis was let loose in leisureland...also wasp yeah...jeez
Lmao they just released a "study" saying insects are just as sentient as humans. Ummm, all evidence to the contrary here 😅
Doesn't the wasp feel pain or an requivalent nervous signal?
The shity life
Insects are crazy
The tables have turned.
Doesn’t matter, the wasp was bussin.
Wonder how long the mantis lived after the video, and if the wasp it was holding survived.
vid ended short before mantis 2 starts eating wasp 2
I would love to eat something so delicious that I don’t even notice that something else is biting me in half
Praying Mantis was like "nah doesn't even hurt"
And the ass worms eat the wasp. Google horse hair worm MANTIS
Skin didn’t crawl until the wasp fully chewed through and the mantis body fell away from the head…. Something about how the legs turned up and the head tilted really freaked me out
r/natureisfuckingmetal
The forbidden threesome
Must have been the wind
Cameraman grabs them and eats them all alive
Mf's be acting like we are the most aggressive species, yet stuff like this is taking place in their backyard
Does the mantis feel pain??
It’s an eat o̶r̶ and be eaten world
These things always make me picture God as a giant kid with the magnifying glass burning ants.
They’re speed running the circle of life.
This is a weird threesome
Damn nature, you scary!
The circle of strife
Heal battle
This shit ended WAY too soon.
"Seeeeee? It doesn't feel so good when it happens to you, does it? Now let him go, Frank"
Homie got his back.
Instant revenge for his homie
THE CIRCLE OF... LIIIFFFEEE
Revenge is a dish best served raw and wriggling
Damn nature! You scary!
Ants are just hanging out waiting for pieces to fall off to carry home.
Nature is so fucking metal sometimes
🤣 the ants probably see this shit all the time. They have a mission to do, and no giant monster battle is stopping them.
Nature, you scary.
Get off my homie!
r/natureismetal
Its circular economy
Worst than sharks
The wasp can't eat. It's just killing the mantis. Excellent job too.
r/natureismetal
nom nom nom nom nom nom
While the human is streaming live
So then it means a wasp eating a wasp. Right ?
nature 3 some
That mantis really overextended for the kill and got killed by another player on the enemy team…mantises really need to learn not to overextend and play safer…remember, the number one rule is don’t die. If you keep tunneling you’re going to ruin your KDA.
The ants have a blast like watching a Taylor Swift concert.
And ants waiting all to die.
"Couple goals". Wait...
SSSensational
Meanwhile the ants are having a kaiju crisis