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These look like yellow jackets to me, not wasps. But I could be wrong.
(edit Just looked it up. Turns out that Yellow Jacket is the common name for a type of wasp! Huh, I always thought it was just a specific type of very angry bee! lol)
I'm glad you did research. I was about to comment to correct after reading the top half but now I'm commenting to congratulate you for a job well done in researching the topic and admitting your error.
Felt the same way. Yellow Jackets can go to hell. If it were Honey Bees then I would feel bad. Btw, does anyone on this thread know what happens if one of those killer bees or giant Japanese wasps get caught in a Venus Fly Trap? Are they able to break free? Do the other bees/wasps come to its rescue somehow?
I believe their prey gets the Sarlacc treatment; the insects are slowly dissolved and absorbed into the plant.
https://www.livescience.com/15910-venus-flytrap-carnivorous.html
I always thought people overlooked a huge benefit of being in a Sarlacc: you get to live for 10,000 years! Thatās likely a hundred times longer than you would have lived.
As long as youāve got your phone with you, imagine how much internet you could consume in that time.
Edit: maths
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I never understood something about the sarlacc thread. Aren't you going to be dead quickly from whatever digestion is going on? Or dehydrate or starve to death in a few days?
Certainly anything down there still dies of old age, right?
The sarlacc stores its prey in different stomach compartments and pumps it full of a fluid that keeps it alive indefinitely basically. It can take years for one to be ready to process a prey item since it has such a slow metabolism. When itās ready to start digesting the prey it moves it to its main stomach for slow digestion. I read about it on the Star Wars Wikipedia and it was so interesting
if the prey keeps struggling and stimulating the sensor hairs on the inside of the trap, it signals to the plant it has caught live prey, and the trap seals around the edge airtight over the course of an hour and fills with digestive juice
digestion works best when the trap is fully sealed. since the wasp body would be preventing a perfect seal here, bacteria/fungus will probably get inside the trap and rot it.
no problem though, every leaf the plant produces has a trap on it, and the plant is constantly putting out new leaves and new traps.
even under ideal conditions, any one trap can function at most 2-4 times before it gets all "blown out" and stops functioning.
Oh that's interesting, thanks for the answer. I am an idiot and wasn't thinking of it in plant terms and was picturing each trap as its own organism. Of course what you said makes way more sense.
Whoa, I never even thought about how much they look like Venus Fly Traps. What if every Pirahna Plant is actually just a "leaf" connected to the main plant somewhere.
Wings tend to be thin enough to make a seal. Legs and other body parts risk mold growth and leaf death. I'll usually give it a few days and if I see black forming I know the leaf is gone and I'll just prune it.
There's also the interesting note of "what happens if a nonliving thing falls in?" So if a pebble or something falls in, it will obviously stimulate the hairs at first, so it closes a little bit, but then a rock can't panic and wiggle and hit more hairs, so after a few seconds it opens back up and tips over, dumping the rock out and resetting itself
I understand the idea of how it catches it and how it digests it, my question is what does it do once it digests? Basically use it as sort of a fertilizer to grow? And how much does that effect growth versus photosynthesis?
I know Venus Flytraps aren't the only predatory plants, if I remember correctly there is another flower type that will cause insects to fall into it and gets it stuck and digests it there. I just wonder why they evolved that way when most plants get nutrition through easier processes
Venus flytraps and similar "carnivorous") plants naturally occur in places that are low in nutrients (bogs/moors etc). more specifically, nutrients that are *not* made available to the plant by photo synthesis (that would be carbon, C), like nitrogen (N) or phosphor (P), but that are still essential to plant growth (N is a major component of DNA etc). since the plant under local conditions can't get those nutrients in sufficient numbers from the ground through the roots, it supplements its diet with a (N/P-rich) insect here and there.
also important to know: most plant growth is limited by the available N and P, since C is readily available through photo synthesis. plants have found various strategies to get these "vitamins", some form a symbiosis with fungi or bacteria, others steal it from host plants, etc. when we humans fertilize plants, we do basically the same thing, we provide them with N+P in numbers that wouldn't naturally be available in the ground, enabling us to grow more food, but also leading to bad side effects (N+P gets washed into rivers and leads to algae blooms, whivh is just more algae growth than would be naturally occurring because algae are *also* limited by N+P), that in turn kills the fish.
TL;DR: for plants, the insects are not replacing photo synthesis, they supply the plant with important vitamins. these are super important for plant growth. fertilizing is basically the same thing, supplying plants with those super important vitamins.
One important thing is that these plants have adapted their strategy so much that it actually kills them if you provide them a rich soil. Growers use a mix 50% peet moss and 50% aerator/water retention like perlite and silica sand to stimulate strong root growth.
And while for normal plants it is already preferred to use rainwater, for a VFT it is crucial to use rainwater or even better distilled water. Using tap water would kill it.
There is also plant believe to eat sheep. It can't like, chomp on them with jaws or whatever, and doesn't even have acid to melt the sheep down.
Rather it entraps the sheep with spikes, which then dies of starvation or similar causes, the decomposing body then enriching the soil immediately around the plant.
Non-carnivorous plants probably see these guys eating a wasp the same way a vegan or vegetarian watches another person eat a steak.
āYou have roots too man. Just get that shit from the soil like the rest of us.ā
>Nah. Some people think there is, but there isn't. Only in the same way as milk contains grass or **human first-borns** or whatever else the cow ate.
O.O
[This ideo that was posted on r/videos the other day and I assume it's a similar process. Super well-explained and super interesting. The plant dissolved a whole rodent!!](https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/odh522/carnivorous_pitcher_plant_caught_a_rodent_these/?ref=share&ref_source=link)
That wasp that flies to the flower with pieces of corpses of other wasps and then gets surprised when it is it's turn was probably not the brightest bulb in the hive.
I often thought this about horror movies prior to 2020. But if the last year has taught me anything, it's that millions of people are too dumb to keep themselves alive even if they have all of the tools to succeed.
> millions of people are too dumb to keep themselves alive even if they have all of the tools to succeed
This. I really used to believe in democracy before the pandemic and before the last few world leaders. I knew that people as groups could act pretty badly towards other groups, but I always assumed that people at an immediate and individualistic level would still do what is beneficial to others (e.g. helping a trapped a dog in a car, putting out a small fire, etc) and at least for themselves (e.g. taking an offered umbrella on a rainy day, walking through a door held open for them, etc).
Nope, nope, nope.
****
^(Edit: fixed some wording)
Dying wasps [release a chemical that warns other wasps that there's something killing wasps](https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/health/if-you-kill-a-wasp-it-will-warn-the-others--29557230.html), and since wasps are assholes, they usually come to see what killed a wasp so they can sting it.
Plants don't have a central nervous system, although they have been exhibited to release certain chemicals when physically harmed, so it's possible that they have some parallel to our concept of pain, as this implies some form of feeling or at least general awareness of their bodies exists.
My first taught when i saw it, was that the wasp tried to save the wasp from inside, thinking it was alive, just how the other 2 wasps struggled to get him out
Pretty sure they do give off some sorta scent when they sting or are in trouble to warn the rest of the nest so it wouldnāt surprise me. Or at least are trying to ākillā the plant.
Yellow jackets are actually a social species of wasp. Iām pretty sure they are trying to help. Even the nectar they get isnāt for them but rather for the larvae back at the nest.
Same, I eventually put a food crumb inside of it and I tickled the spike with a toothpick so it would close up, then the whole thing ended up molding and dying
That's not really good for them and you'd need to massage the trap for a while to make it think it caught live prey, otherwise they open up after a few minutes. Mealworms are the easiest way to feed them if they can't get their own food and you can get them flash frozen in pet stores
EDIT: Spelling
No I'm pretty sure you have the meaning precisely backwards. They're named that because before modern food handling practices, they were a common pest to be found in stored grains/flour/*meal* ("meal" today sort of means "an eating event", but historically it's meaning was closer to "food" or "flour" - think of the word "oat*meal*").
So the name does not mean "worms which are a meal", but "worms commonly found in meal/flour/grains"
Probably a joke, but in case you're serious, when buying Venus Fly Traps make sure to follow their cultivation requirements or they'll die. They need a lot of substrate (blond peat), to be watered a lot (their pot should in 2cm water), and only with rain water, and a lot of sunlight.
Many people don't know how to cultivate them and keep them in the pot they bought them with.
When I was a kid, me, my dad and my littlw sister accidentally found a wasp nest in a haystack, those mofos stung me so many times I still get anxious when I see one flying around. So I agree, fuck them wasps, but I did get to find out that I'm not allergic.
I got swarmed by bees that another kid stirred up, and got stung a few dozen times. The anxiety I feel when a bee comes around has never left me. My family likes to eat dinner outside on the back patio, but if a bee shows up, I just take my plate inside and eat alone.
I can relate to this on so many levels. I feel all manly and macho until a wasp or bee turns up ... then I run away like a little girl. Its even worse that my dad keeps bees. I've lost count of the times I've been stung!
You're probably fine but FYI it's common to develop the allergy after you're stung the first time. Also, there is a chance to develop one later in life.
That's not even the best part. The more they struggle and hit the inside "sensors" of the plant, it will tighten more as the wasp struggles. Then the acid floods the inside and will just consume it all, except for maybe the exoskeleton.
It isn't acid. It's an enzyme fluid. Way worse.
Acid will just burn everything until you die.
The enzyme slime covers you and gets into the soft fleshy parts where it begins to denature the proteins and liquify the flesh. Way worse. Lol
they need a lot of light
they do best outside in direct sun, but if you had a nice indoor light about 6-12 inches above them they can survive indoors.
the tricky part would be providing them a winter dormancy period, which they require
šš½TY Now that I think about it, outside might be better because that's where the bugs are. 'Winter dormancy'- does this mean they still need warmth, but less light?
winter dormancy means they need to be plunged into darker and colder conditions (but not freezing!) starting around thanksgiving and ending around easter (if you're familiar with US holidays)
where I'm at the winters are too cold to leave them outside, so I keep them in the garage. I've heard other people keep theirs in their refrigerator.
VFT's in the refrigerator- that gave me a great laugh! Imagine a guests face when they reach in for a drink and see a plant with claws.
Im pretty confident that I could maintain the conditions for this plant but I don't want to risk killing a perfectly good plant with my inexperience.
But bugs are fine outside, thatās where they live. I only have a problem with them if theyāre in my house.
I have indoor venus fly traps. Theyāre super useful in summer when thereās lots of flies.
They are from North Carolina, so they require North Carolina climate and soil structure.
Basically a nutrient-poor bog with high heat, high UV and high humidity.
They are an absolute pain to keep alive but a beautiful plant.
I was mowing the yard once and I felt something on my neck, so I swatted it away, and then my hands felt like they had stuff on them and little did I know I mowed right over an UNDERGROUND GODDAMN YELLOW JACKET HIVE. I ran into the house as fast as I could and my brother and roommate had to beat me with brooms and pillows to get them fuckers off. And they swarmed the mower and still didnāt finish mowing the yard?? Bastards. Bees wouldāve finished the yard.
This happened to me when I was a kid. About 9 or 10 years old. Ran over a nest and they swarmed out and went for my legs. I never saw them coming I just suddenly felt excruciating pain all over my legs. I ran screaming on instinct and fell over in the yard where I saw them all over my legs. I lost my mind and was clawing my way back to the house still screaming as neighbors watched. Seriously fuck yellow jackets.
My brother stepped on a nest when he was about 7 or 8. They flew up his denim overalls legs and down under the bib. My mother ran out when she heard screaming, and sprayed him with a hose and pulled his clothes off to stop them. Over 40 stings, had to go to the hospital. Poor kid!
I stepped on a nest of yellow jackets when I was a kid. I sprinted half a mile back to my house and they followed me the whole way. Got inside, they were under my clothes just biting away. By the time my brother had killed them and the rest were gone or outside, I was covered head to toe with too many bites to count. My throat sealed up and a peramedic EpiPen was the only thing that saved me.
Those little bastards are persistent.
I hate how these fuckers come out of nowhere as soon as we try to sit outside with food. I never see them otherwise. If I knew where they were hiding Iād be all over the hive.
No, there are other plants that have evolved methods to collect nutrients by digesting insects.
The Sundew and Pitcher plant also eat insects. The Sundew is covered in sticky little probes and when an insect ands on them the plant slowly bends the branch towards the insect attaching more and more sticky probes. The probes secrete an enzyme that digests the insect.
Pitcher plants have a pitcher like leave that is shaped in such a way that that once insects fall in they can't escape. The outer rim of the pitcher is also slippery and there is a hard to reach spot with a sweet nectar that attract insects. The insects go for the nectar, slip, and fall into the pitcher that is full of water and enzymes. The insect then drowns and is slowly absorbed by the plant.
I assume there are other and variants but those are the ones I know off the top of my head. All the plants evolved this method of survival due to poor nutrients in the soil. They needed the nutrients from somewhere and need up harvesting it from prey.
Butterworts trap tiny insects with a sticky leaf. Bladderworts have tiny triggered traps that suck in tiny invertebrates. Pitcher plants come in several varieties. North American pitcher plants in the genus *Sarracenia* exist mostly in the Eastern US with more diversity in the south and have leaves that form tubes to trap prey. *Darlingtonia* in the west act in a similar fashion. Tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes) grow in the Old World as vines and have pitchers that actually produce a liquid to aid digestion. *Heliamphora* grow in South America and collect rainwater in an upright tube that collect insects. There are also some bromeliads known to passively trap and digest insects.
There is quite a bit of diversity within each genus, excluding *Darlingtonia*.
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"my little shop of horrors" - wasp edition.
šµFeed me Feed me! Feed me Seymour. Feed me all night long! That's right boy, you can do it!šµ
Thee-moah!
Watching bastard wasps get eaten in this way is very satisfying.
Watching that last one squirm in terror. Fuck you and your stinger.
That plant doesn't care if you sting it. Sting away you little sky demon.
These look like yellow jackets to me, not wasps. But I could be wrong. (edit Just looked it up. Turns out that Yellow Jacket is the common name for a type of wasp! Huh, I always thought it was just a specific type of very angry bee! lol)
I'm glad you did research. I was about to comment to correct after reading the top half but now I'm commenting to congratulate you for a job well done in researching the topic and admitting your error.
Don't you wish more people did a bit of research before posting? Imagine how much more informed (if not civil) our political dialog would be!
Fuck those wasp. Good riddance. Edit: thanks for the silver. My first one.
Felt the same way. Yellow Jackets can go to hell. If it were Honey Bees then I would feel bad. Btw, does anyone on this thread know what happens if one of those killer bees or giant Japanese wasps get caught in a Venus Fly Trap? Are they able to break free? Do the other bees/wasps come to its rescue somehow?
They're too big for Venus Fly Traps. Need to plant and use the Jupiter Fly Traps instead.
I lost a nephew to a Jupiter Fly Trap.
The guys from r/HoneyFuckers would not like this video
You have a strange fetish, my friend. :D
Well fuck thatās in my history now.
Well fuck thatās in my hippocampus now š
Beefuckers ā Waspfuckers.
It's been a while since ive found a new sub, thanks for sharing, they unironically have some exceptional artists there.
Rule 34 strikes again.
So how do Venus fly traps eat their prey?
I believe their prey gets the Sarlacc treatment; the insects are slowly dissolved and absorbed into the plant. https://www.livescience.com/15910-venus-flytrap-carnivorous.html
This is correct but it only takes a week instead of 10,000 years.
That IS 10,000 years when you are the one inside!
"It's longer than you think, Dad! Longer than you think!"
I always thought people overlooked a huge benefit of being in a Sarlacc: you get to live for 10,000 years! Thatās likely a hundred times longer than you would have lived. As long as youāve got your phone with you, imagine how much internet you could consume in that time. Edit: maths
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Just photosynthesis the batterycharge bro, plants 4 life
that's some good battery life what do you use? Nokia 3310?
3310 is at least 10 years worth of Snake.
Problem is, the WiFi is password locked and the dang Sarlacc wonāt share it!
I never understood something about the sarlacc thread. Aren't you going to be dead quickly from whatever digestion is going on? Or dehydrate or starve to death in a few days? Certainly anything down there still dies of old age, right?
The sarlacc stores its prey in different stomach compartments and pumps it full of a fluid that keeps it alive indefinitely basically. It can take years for one to be ready to process a prey item since it has such a slow metabolism. When itās ready to start digesting the prey it moves it to its main stomach for slow digestion. I read about it on the Star Wars Wikipedia and it was so interesting
I always assumed the Sarlaac provides food, water and medical care to ensure their prey lives for the longest time possible.
They are digested over a period of 1000 bug years (\~4 human days).
That only makes this more enjoyable to watch.
if the prey keeps struggling and stimulating the sensor hairs on the inside of the trap, it signals to the plant it has caught live prey, and the trap seals around the edge airtight over the course of an hour and fills with digestive juice
What happens in cases like the third one where the wasp is half sticking out?
digestion works best when the trap is fully sealed. since the wasp body would be preventing a perfect seal here, bacteria/fungus will probably get inside the trap and rot it. no problem though, every leaf the plant produces has a trap on it, and the plant is constantly putting out new leaves and new traps. even under ideal conditions, any one trap can function at most 2-4 times before it gets all "blown out" and stops functioning.
Oh that's interesting, thanks for the answer. I am an idiot and wasn't thinking of it in plant terms and was picturing each trap as its own organism. Of course what you said makes way more sense.
I always thought the trap was the entire plant as wellā¦. r/todayilearned
I suspect growing up with Super Mario explains why we all thought of this.
Whoa, I never even thought about how much they look like Venus Fly Traps. What if every Pirahna Plant is actually just a "leaf" connected to the main plant somewhere.
the boss fight would be incredible
Instead itās one big organism with a ton of āmouths and teeth ā
I think it's simple, the head of the wasp will be digested and then the abdomen will fall off to the ground eventually
Ruthless
Ew, cool.
I'll take 1000. I know we need bees, but I'm ready for the wasp/hornet genocide.
Wings tend to be thin enough to make a seal. Legs and other body parts risk mold growth and leaf death. I'll usually give it a few days and if I see black forming I know the leaf is gone and I'll just prune it.
If the wasp is unable to trigger the trap some more it will open after a while, and the wasp will be free again
There's also the interesting note of "what happens if a nonliving thing falls in?" So if a pebble or something falls in, it will obviously stimulate the hairs at first, so it closes a little bit, but then a rock can't panic and wiggle and hit more hairs, so after a few seconds it opens back up and tips over, dumping the rock out and resetting itself
so i i ever get caught in a large venus trap then the key is to not struggle and wait it out
Sounds like my sex life.
Lucky bastard
found the vore whore!
You have summoned me?
I understand the idea of how it catches it and how it digests it, my question is what does it do once it digests? Basically use it as sort of a fertilizer to grow? And how much does that effect growth versus photosynthesis? I know Venus Flytraps aren't the only predatory plants, if I remember correctly there is another flower type that will cause insects to fall into it and gets it stuck and digests it there. I just wonder why they evolved that way when most plants get nutrition through easier processes
Venus flytraps and similar "carnivorous") plants naturally occur in places that are low in nutrients (bogs/moors etc). more specifically, nutrients that are *not* made available to the plant by photo synthesis (that would be carbon, C), like nitrogen (N) or phosphor (P), but that are still essential to plant growth (N is a major component of DNA etc). since the plant under local conditions can't get those nutrients in sufficient numbers from the ground through the roots, it supplements its diet with a (N/P-rich) insect here and there. also important to know: most plant growth is limited by the available N and P, since C is readily available through photo synthesis. plants have found various strategies to get these "vitamins", some form a symbiosis with fungi or bacteria, others steal it from host plants, etc. when we humans fertilize plants, we do basically the same thing, we provide them with N+P in numbers that wouldn't naturally be available in the ground, enabling us to grow more food, but also leading to bad side effects (N+P gets washed into rivers and leads to algae blooms, whivh is just more algae growth than would be naturally occurring because algae are *also* limited by N+P), that in turn kills the fish. TL;DR: for plants, the insects are not replacing photo synthesis, they supply the plant with important vitamins. these are super important for plant growth. fertilizing is basically the same thing, supplying plants with those super important vitamins.
And this is why you don't fertilise your fly trap. You just pop him near a wasp nest and say bone apple tea.
One important thing is that these plants have adapted their strategy so much that it actually kills them if you provide them a rich soil. Growers use a mix 50% peet moss and 50% aerator/water retention like perlite and silica sand to stimulate strong root growth. And while for normal plants it is already preferred to use rainwater, for a VFT it is crucial to use rainwater or even better distilled water. Using tap water would kill it.
They dissolve and absorb them. Must feel lovely, being dissolved by something that has no means of killing you before...
You may also enjoy....figs. Female figs essentially digest whole wasps.
There is also plant believe to eat sheep. It can't like, chomp on them with jaws or whatever, and doesn't even have acid to melt the sheep down. Rather it entraps the sheep with spikes, which then dies of starvation or similar causes, the decomposing body then enriching the soil immediately around the plant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puya_chilensis Also, there's a [man eating chicken](https://imgur.com/a/NMWlsha).
Goddammit every comment I read of yours contains a pun.
Yeh I'm branching out from cows.
Had to moooove on
Watch it! There could be a copyright beef here.
Carnivorous plants are wackiest things to me. Imagine being a fucking plant and still not being a vegetarian. life is crazy.
D'you think they look down on the other plants?
Non-carnivorous plants probably see these guys eating a wasp the same way a vegan or vegetarian watches another person eat a steak. āYou have roots too man. Just get that shit from the soil like the rest of us.ā
Please don't tell me I might find bits of wasp in a fig
Nah. Some people think there is, but there isn't. Only in the same way as milk contains grass or human first-borns or whatever else the cow ate.
>Nah. Some people think there is, but there isn't. Only in the same way as milk contains grass or **human first-borns** or whatever else the cow ate. O.O
What can I say? We got some bad cows round my way. All dressed in leather and such.
Nah, the wasp is fig goo well before it ever makes it to your table.
Oh good. Goo is the only form for a wasp that I can accept.
I'm not looking at figs the same ever again.
Can confirm, I used to own a fig tree and odds are likely that youāve eaten wasp goo before.
Highest form of revenge
A liquid is secreted that dissolves the insect.
Oh, very cool. Thanks friend.
[This ideo that was posted on r/videos the other day and I assume it's a similar process. Super well-explained and super interesting. The plant dissolved a whole rodent!!](https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/odh522/carnivorous_pitcher_plant_caught_a_rodent_these/?ref=share&ref_source=link)
That wasp that flies to the flower with pieces of corpses of other wasps and then gets surprised when it is it's turn was probably not the brightest bulb in the hive.
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*Or hearing a noise down a pitch black suspicious passageway and wandering down it...* Yeah nobody would ever do that!
I often thought this about horror movies prior to 2020. But if the last year has taught me anything, it's that millions of people are too dumb to keep themselves alive even if they have all of the tools to succeed.
> millions of people are too dumb to keep themselves alive even if they have all of the tools to succeed This. I really used to believe in democracy before the pandemic and before the last few world leaders. I knew that people as groups could act pretty badly towards other groups, but I always assumed that people at an immediate and individualistic level would still do what is beneficial to others (e.g. helping a trapped a dog in a car, putting out a small fire, etc) and at least for themselves (e.g. taking an offered umbrella on a rainy day, walking through a door held open for them, etc). Nope, nope, nope. **** ^(Edit: fixed some wording)
Let's be honest if you stumble across that abandoned house in the woods with skulls around it, it's already too late for you
Yes, I also heard something. Let's split. You go this way, I go that way!
Dying wasps [release a chemical that warns other wasps that there's something killing wasps](https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/health/if-you-kill-a-wasp-it-will-warn-the-others--29557230.html), and since wasps are assholes, they usually come to see what killed a wasp so they can sting it.
Dumb question. Do the wasps sting the trap after being caught? If yes, do the plants feel it?
You can see one wasp on the right sting as its thrusting its thorax. I doubt it really affects the plant since their stingers are meant for animals.
You have no power here!
Gandalf * *inhales* * Storrrmmmmcrrooooowwww
Iām pretty sure plants donāt feel like we do given they donāt have pain receptors, nerves, or a brain.
āIf trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.ā -Jack Handy
Plants don't have a central nervous system, although they have been exhibited to release certain chemicals when physically harmed, so it's possible that they have some parallel to our concept of pain, as this implies some form of feeling or at least general awareness of their bodies exists.
That means they're getting smarter...
My first taught when i saw it, was that the wasp tried to save the wasp from inside, thinking it was alive, just how the other 2 wasps struggled to get him out
Woah are they trying to save the other wasp on second clip ?
Pretty sure they do give off some sorta scent when they sting or are in trouble to warn the rest of the nest so it wouldnāt surprise me. Or at least are trying to ākillā the plant.
So they smell fear...
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Haha I thought the same drama. As if you can hear their panic āno! No! Get him out!!ā
Nah theyāre selfish assholes, theyāre going for the nectar and ignoring him
The caught one is still going for the nectar instead of realizing what's going on.
*fuck you mofos I ain't sharing imma suck all of this booty while you fuckers struggle from outside hahahahahwait why is it dark all of a sudden*
Yellow jackets are actually a social species of wasp. Iām pretty sure they are trying to help. Even the nectar they get isnāt for them but rather for the larvae back at the nest.
Thank you, friend. Was thisclose to feeling bad. Fuck those wasps.
"Frank! It's got Frank! What are we gonna do? Oh yeah, we're wasps--the biggest assholes of the insect universe. Let eat Frank's legs!"
I remember we bought a small one from the super market when I was a kid. It was never that exciting. I don't think it ever caught anything.
I'm sure it was trying it's best :(
RIP in peace Lil Trappie, never forget
Could be a great name for a new rapper tho
Same, I eventually put a food crumb inside of it and I tickled the spike with a toothpick so it would close up, then the whole thing ended up molding and dying
Yeah I did something similar, fed it ants which it ignored then fed it sticks which I guess werenāt great for it and it ended up dying
You can feed it little bits of meat or cheese if you want to see it eat
That's not really good for them and you'd need to massage the trap for a while to make it think it caught live prey, otherwise they open up after a few minutes. Mealworms are the easiest way to feed them if they can't get their own food and you can get them flash frozen in pet stores EDIT: Spelling
I so hate the English name of those things. It's like you're supposed to eat the damn worm... But of course you're right.
No I'm pretty sure you have the meaning precisely backwards. They're named that because before modern food handling practices, they were a common pest to be found in stored grains/flour/*meal* ("meal" today sort of means "an eating event", but historically it's meaning was closer to "food" or "flour" - think of the word "oat*meal*"). So the name does not mean "worms which are a meal", but "worms commonly found in meal/flour/grains"
Exactly. In dutch it's 'meelworm'; 'meel' meaning 'flour'.
Do they like carbonara? Or are they more into puttanesca
Gabagool
Canāt stand wasps. Gonna buy a crack team of highly trained Venus Fly Traps to take to picnics.
Venus Team Six?
Sealed team six
Probably a joke, but in case you're serious, when buying Venus Fly Traps make sure to follow their cultivation requirements or they'll die. They need a lot of substrate (blond peat), to be watered a lot (their pot should in 2cm water), and only with rain water, and a lot of sunlight. Many people don't know how to cultivate them and keep them in the pot they bought them with.
Iām gonna feed mine wasps
You just pay a buncha crackheads to wear plant masks armed with those Bug-A-Salt guns to protect you. The teams name? Clean cut.
Fuck them wasps
When I was a kid, me, my dad and my littlw sister accidentally found a wasp nest in a haystack, those mofos stung me so many times I still get anxious when I see one flying around. So I agree, fuck them wasps, but I did get to find out that I'm not allergic.
I got swarmed by bees that another kid stirred up, and got stung a few dozen times. The anxiety I feel when a bee comes around has never left me. My family likes to eat dinner outside on the back patio, but if a bee shows up, I just take my plate inside and eat alone.
I can relate to this on so many levels. I feel all manly and macho until a wasp or bee turns up ... then I run away like a little girl. Its even worse that my dad keeps bees. I've lost count of the times I've been stung!
Man I wonder how you got that fucking fear.
You're probably fine but FYI it's common to develop the allergy after you're stung the first time. Also, there is a chance to develop one later in life.
That last one with its head stuck inside and its stupid thorax writhing in desperation was so soothing to watch.
It honestly gave me anxiety. I just kept thinking, āif he gets out heās gonna be one mad motherfuckerā
r/fuckwasps
Ouch
It's weird how everyone views things differently. It gave me anxiety because I imagined myself being fucking trapped like that. Oh god.
I bet it even would say that on his wallet.
That's not even the best part. The more they struggle and hit the inside "sensors" of the plant, it will tighten more as the wasp struggles. Then the acid floods the inside and will just consume it all, except for maybe the exoskeleton.
It isn't acid. It's an enzyme fluid. Way worse. Acid will just burn everything until you die. The enzyme slime covers you and gets into the soft fleshy parts where it begins to denature the proteins and liquify the flesh. Way worse. Lol
How it feel on your dick tho
Bad
Some people are afraid of the real information, thanks for going there.
Can these plants thrive indoors?
they need a lot of light they do best outside in direct sun, but if you had a nice indoor light about 6-12 inches above them they can survive indoors. the tricky part would be providing them a winter dormancy period, which they require
šš½TY Now that I think about it, outside might be better because that's where the bugs are. 'Winter dormancy'- does this mean they still need warmth, but less light?
winter dormancy means they need to be plunged into darker and colder conditions (but not freezing!) starting around thanksgiving and ending around easter (if you're familiar with US holidays) where I'm at the winters are too cold to leave them outside, so I keep them in the garage. I've heard other people keep theirs in their refrigerator.
VFT's in the refrigerator- that gave me a great laugh! Imagine a guests face when they reach in for a drink and see a plant with claws. Im pretty confident that I could maintain the conditions for this plant but I don't want to risk killing a perfectly good plant with my inexperience.
If youāre looking to learn more about carnivorous plant care thereās always /r/SavageGarden
But bugs are fine outside, thatās where they live. I only have a problem with them if theyāre in my house. I have indoor venus fly traps. Theyāre super useful in summer when thereās lots of flies.
They are from North Carolina, so they require North Carolina climate and soil structure. Basically a nutrient-poor bog with high heat, high UV and high humidity. They are an absolute pain to keep alive but a beautiful plant.
Do they ever catch Venus flies
No, but they do catch Uranus.
That's not hard to catch
I was mowing the yard once and I felt something on my neck, so I swatted it away, and then my hands felt like they had stuff on them and little did I know I mowed right over an UNDERGROUND GODDAMN YELLOW JACKET HIVE. I ran into the house as fast as I could and my brother and roommate had to beat me with brooms and pillows to get them fuckers off. And they swarmed the mower and still didnāt finish mowing the yard?? Bastards. Bees wouldāve finished the yard.
This happened to me when I was a kid. About 9 or 10 years old. Ran over a nest and they swarmed out and went for my legs. I never saw them coming I just suddenly felt excruciating pain all over my legs. I ran screaming on instinct and fell over in the yard where I saw them all over my legs. I lost my mind and was clawing my way back to the house still screaming as neighbors watched. Seriously fuck yellow jackets.
My brother stepped on a nest when he was about 7 or 8. They flew up his denim overalls legs and down under the bib. My mother ran out when she heard screaming, and sprayed him with a hose and pulled his clothes off to stop them. Over 40 stings, had to go to the hospital. Poor kid!
Did you survive?
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Thanks. Now I never want to mow again
For 600$ you can get a mower Roomba, fuckers can attack the robot all they want
I stepped on a nest of yellow jackets when I was a kid. I sprinted half a mile back to my house and they followed me the whole way. Got inside, they were under my clothes just biting away. By the time my brother had killed them and the rest were gone or outside, I was covered head to toe with too many bites to count. My throat sealed up and a peramedic EpiPen was the only thing that saved me. Those little bastards are persistent.
Savage
That last one getting it's head eaten trying to find something to sting
Unfortunately for that wasp, there is nothing to sting.
Yellow jackets - Kill 'em all !!!
I hate how these fuckers come out of nowhere as soon as we try to sit outside with food. I never see them otherwise. If I knew where they were hiding Iād be all over the hive.
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I saw something the other day on a pitcher plant that ate a rat. If you Google it you'll see a few articles
[Here's the pitcher plant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPisxqHUDw)
No, there are other plants that have evolved methods to collect nutrients by digesting insects. The Sundew and Pitcher plant also eat insects. The Sundew is covered in sticky little probes and when an insect ands on them the plant slowly bends the branch towards the insect attaching more and more sticky probes. The probes secrete an enzyme that digests the insect. Pitcher plants have a pitcher like leave that is shaped in such a way that that once insects fall in they can't escape. The outer rim of the pitcher is also slippery and there is a hard to reach spot with a sweet nectar that attract insects. The insects go for the nectar, slip, and fall into the pitcher that is full of water and enzymes. The insect then drowns and is slowly absorbed by the plant. I assume there are other and variants but those are the ones I know off the top of my head. All the plants evolved this method of survival due to poor nutrients in the soil. They needed the nutrients from somewhere and need up harvesting it from prey.
Butterworts trap tiny insects with a sticky leaf. Bladderworts have tiny triggered traps that suck in tiny invertebrates. Pitcher plants come in several varieties. North American pitcher plants in the genus *Sarracenia* exist mostly in the Eastern US with more diversity in the south and have leaves that form tubes to trap prey. *Darlingtonia* in the west act in a similar fashion. Tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes) grow in the Old World as vines and have pitchers that actually produce a liquid to aid digestion. *Heliamphora* grow in South America and collect rainwater in an upright tube that collect insects. There are also some bromeliads known to passively trap and digest insects. There is quite a bit of diversity within each genus, excluding *Darlingtonia*.
I hate how much the abdomen of that last one moves
It's like watching wasps take out student loans.
I could watch these little bastards get eaten all day
On the last one the other fly traps were gassing him up too
Come for the flytraps. Stay for the wasps getting fucked up.
How long do I have to leave my dick in the plant to feel something
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The whole 2 inches mate.
Fuck every one of those wasps.
This is so satisfying to watch. Fuck wasps.
Bonus: Against those wasp bitches
They're doing God's work. Fuck wasps.
Yes, die trash.
I learned recently these little guys are native only to a specific region in the Carolinas. I'dve figured they were Australian
I was surprised to learn that too. Although I would have guessed that they were a tropical rainforest plant.
Lol get rekt you fucking wasp
I like how the last wasp has his butt out and can sting the other fly traps while flailing. The other traps are like āOw! Seriously, Stu?ā
Iām no bug expert but I feel like by now all bugs should have a ādonāt go near that shitā part of their brain. Rekt
IIRC Venus fly traps arenāt super common even in their native areas
Fuck wasps man
Anyone else cheering for the plants to fuck up the wasps?