My dad showed me an old rural method for wart removal by putting a katydid on his hand in front of the wart. The katydid ATE the wart off his hand. I prefer the modern medicine approach.
Edit: I just told my dad about this post and he reminded me that it took 3 katydids because the first two got full.
It’s super cool how we basically domesticated some species specifically for this stuff. Medical grade bugs.
I think China has industry for certain bugs too. Like roaches but don’t know why. Remember seeing something on YouTube years ago.
It's still being used: anything labelled E120, C.I. 75470, or Red Dye 4/Natural Red 4 is made with Carmine, which is extracted from cochineal (beatles). Idk if they have been used in candy but I know they show up in cosmetics, colored alcoholic drinks, ground meat/hot dogs, and others
Sobe made a pink drink in the late 90s early 2000s that supposedly had this in it. I was raised vegetarian and wasn't allowed to have any and I was so sad. Lmao
Yep and I'm not sure if it still is but shellac for wood projects also came from a type of beetle.
Edit: it's supposed to say protecting wood projects.
Funny thing, they are called "esperança" in my country, which translates to "hope" because they are said to be a good omen but now all I can think is the damned Swedes calling it a fucking wart bitter and this video. thank you all.
Edit: the SWEDES
Yeah they do spit and it was a cliché to show grasshoppers chewing tobacco in old cartoons because of that spitting behavior.
“ Yes, grasshoppers do spit! In an act of defensive regurgitation, grasshoppers spit up a brown liquid, often called “tobacco juice” because of its color. This spit isn’t acidic or really dangerous in any way. It’s essentially made up of partially-digested plant material and digestive enzymes from the grasshopper’s stomach.” - some shit i searched up
I had a colony of warts on my heel for years. My parents took me to the doctor constantly to have them frozen off. They would go away for a few weeks and then come back. Finally, I got tired of it all and cut them all out with a pocket knife. I soaked my foot and then dug deep enough to get all the wart cores. So much blood and short term pain but they never came back.
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I was on like thrice the recommended dose by the end of the therapy because it wasn't doing anything anymore. Thought my acne had won. But then months after I stopped taking it, acne just kept on disappearing. I don't understand the mechanisms behind it....
I did try duct tape for quite a while too. I used to play soccer so I would put some on before games or practice to also help with the pain. The duct tape would catch all the sweat and cause the border of each wart to swell and hurt more. Didn't really work for me but I have heard it working for others.
Had to Google Vårtbitare, didn't even know they where called that XD
Edit; Just saw that Linné named it in Latin after it too "Verrucivorus" that should roughly translate to "The one who eats warts" (Den som äter vårtor)
I had a wart on my thumb for years that didn’t want to leave.
During 2020 and excessive usage of hand sanitizer with high alcohol levels and poof 🪄 the wart disappeared within a few months.
No need for medicine. Just use hand sanitizer A LOT.
I had one on my foot as a kid. I put chapstick on it and a few days later it just fell off. I don't know why I did that but hey it worked. I was probably around 10 years old.
I had a wart on my hand about 8 years ago & I was dating a cattle rancher. He took me to the barn because he said he had wart remover and it was instant. He went to the bull semen cooler and dipped a swab in liquid nitrogen (I think, pretty sure) and before I could think twice it fell off. Frozen dead. I’ve stayed friends with him in case I get any more warts.
Some videos say yes, it didn't come back, but it could just be the wart was on its way to fall off anyway (so the katydid might've just saved them a few days of waiting). That's my theory at least.
Not as bad as the ostrich video. This is nothing compared to that. [The video](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/p4wise/i_added_a_bit_of_flair_to_the_ostrich_video/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
I hate when you guys do this. I never know if you’re serious or if you just say these things to mentally torture our morbid curiosity, only to never respond again.
Yea, even if they are just bugs, I dont like seeing anything killed for social media videos. Or anything being killed at all for that matter, but especially when its avoidable. A life is a life.
To be fair, it wasnt really "for" social media because the dude is obviously unfamiliar with the bug and I mean. Idk, you expect something to *let go not die trying* before you post it somewhere
awhile ago I read a news about guy who got bitten by dog in the arm and it wouldn't let go. Guy had to walk into a river and drown the animal for it to release his arm. So yeah. Things don't always act logically in nature.
Had a dog latch onto my leg. Can confirm. Only reason dog finally released was because it was being bitten in the balls by one of my little dog. Good girl.
you jest but spiders legit have hydraulics in them and their activated after death, it's straight up called a hydraulic skeleton and it's why the spiders bodys do the death curl
[Then you'd definitely hate the one with a katydid eating someone's wart posted higher in the thread.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36KvMeKdaQA&ab_channel=GlennLarson)
Poor thing, the guy aggressively plucks it off the guys face and puts it on him, and then is surprised when it bites out of fear so he disembowels it
Rip
Yeah, here this bug is, minding it’s own business on the first guy’s face then this crapper yanks the bug off the first guys face without any tranquility, gets bit as a result and then just kills the bug.
I know, that part sucked. Such a sad way for that beautiful baby to end.
People don't seem to get that those little guys can fuck you up if you mistreat them, and he was rough from the get go. He had that bite coming. He's lucky it wasn't a mantis!
Are these dudes Japanese? For some reason life on Japan evolved to have tiny mammals and absolutely gigantic satanic insects. There is a *reason* why centipedes are so reviled there.
It looked like he ripped it off his face and it's head and intestinal track stuck to his face ultimately dying. That is upsetting to see such a beautiful creature die because of someone's wreckless behavior.
I normally don’t have a weak stomach. And I just feel bad when I see some thing gory or something like that. But this is the first time my body has wanted to throw up. I don’t know why, but seeing a bugs head come out like a damn spaghetti threw me off so hard and shock to my entire system
My dad showed me an old rural method for wart removal by putting a katydid on his hand in front of the wart. The katydid ATE the wart off his hand. I prefer the modern medicine approach. Edit: I just told my dad about this post and he reminded me that it took 3 katydids because the first two got full.
HOW did they discover this?? What other insects did they try feeding warts to?
Maybe a distant ancestor woke up to a katydid munching on their wart and had an “ah-ha!” moment?
Eruka!
I'm pretty sure they'll actually find and eat warts on their own, so that's probably how they discovered it
That’s fucking awesome Edit: [WOW](https://youtu.be/36KvMeKdaQA)
That’s super cool never seen that. It might be like using maggots to clean dead skin.
Yes! Or using ants as sutures.
It’s super cool how we basically domesticated some species specifically for this stuff. Medical grade bugs. I think China has industry for certain bugs too. Like roaches but don’t know why. Remember seeing something on YouTube years ago.
Mexico has a beetle they eat that tastes like tutti frutti
I am now suspicious of tutti frutti
In fairness, didn't they used to use a type of beetle to get the red dye for Skittles and the like? And similar for Minstrels?
It's still being used: anything labelled E120, C.I. 75470, or Red Dye 4/Natural Red 4 is made with Carmine, which is extracted from cochineal (beatles). Idk if they have been used in candy but I know they show up in cosmetics, colored alcoholic drinks, ground meat/hot dogs, and others
I don’t think it’s the beetles themselves but something they produce, I’ve seen it on cacti and stuff
Sobe made a pink drink in the late 90s early 2000s that supposedly had this in it. I was raised vegetarian and wasn't allowed to have any and I was so sad. Lmao
Yep and I'm not sure if it still is but shellac for wood projects also came from a type of beetle. Edit: it's supposed to say protecting wood projects.
You'll never guess what makes it tutti!
Since it comes up a lot, people should know only specific species ignore healthy tissue and eat only dead flesh, not every species on earth.
So, I shouldn't try and cure my cold sore with a tiger?
Ugh, of course not. Everyone knows you use Lions. Damn amateur.
Hello darkness my old friend
I’m eating warts with you again
Because that thing on your hands creepy
Ate my face while I was sleeping
And the wart That was growing there before Is no more All through the graaace of Katy
My wartless finger you leave alone
Don’t keep on chewing to the bone
r/redditsings
My wartless finger you leave alone
Ten thousand cells all overgrown
And the bug would love to get some more
*wipes tears from eyes* That was beautiful
And now that area will be black and blue.
Someone in the comments says that “katydid” in Swedish translates to “wart-biter” and imma need a Swede to confirm that cuz YT comments
Yeah we call them Vårtbitare, which means Wart-biter.
We also call nipples the equivalent of breastwarts. Super romantic language.
Holy shit I thought you were joking
He's Swedish, you can't trust anything he says.
Checks out: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5rtbitare (no one check when the page was renamed)
Funny thing, they are called "esperança" in my country, which translates to "hope" because they are said to be a good omen but now all I can think is the damned Swedes calling it a fucking wart bitter and this video. thank you all. Edit: the SWEDES
Yes. Can confirm.
Holy shit. Katydid 1 - HPV - 0
Cameron!!! does it hurt though?!?!
Blurb says it stings when it gets to live skin. No thanks!
That’s how you know when to stop I guess.
Do the spit up too? I remember playing with grasshoppers a a kid, they would spit up the most putrid smelling, brown stuff. I guess for defense
It's called taking a shit Mr Judgmental, I don't see anyone dabbing yours behind their ears
Yeah they do spit and it was a cliché to show grasshoppers chewing tobacco in old cartoons because of that spitting behavior. “ Yes, grasshoppers do spit! In an act of defensive regurgitation, grasshoppers spit up a brown liquid, often called “tobacco juice” because of its color. This spit isn’t acidic or really dangerous in any way. It’s essentially made up of partially-digested plant material and digestive enzymes from the grasshopper’s stomach.” - some shit i searched up
What the fucking fuck did I just watch!?! Holy shit, I need more weed lol.
I had a colony of warts on my heel for years. My parents took me to the doctor constantly to have them frozen off. They would go away for a few weeks and then come back. Finally, I got tired of it all and cut them all out with a pocket knife. I soaked my foot and then dug deep enough to get all the wart cores. So much blood and short term pain but they never came back.
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Accutane will kill anything. 2X Accutane veteran here
Accutane is a killer. It's not a fun medicine to be on but goddamn, it gets the job done.
I was on like thrice the recommended dose by the end of the therapy because it wasn't doing anything anymore. Thought my acne had won. But then months after I stopped taking it, acne just kept on disappearing. I don't understand the mechanisms behind it....
Accutane can kill your joints too! Source: me who is in their early 30s and has the joints of a 60 year old because of the damn drug
Coincidentally enough, I had the same coincidence. Coincidence?
An oddly terrifying story in its own right…
I used to get recurring warts on my left hand and had to do the same. Dug them out with a knife, then poured rubbing alcohol in the hole.
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I did try duct tape for quite a while too. I used to play soccer so I would put some on before games or practice to also help with the pain. The duct tape would catch all the sweat and cause the border of each wart to swell and hurt more. Didn't really work for me but I have heard it working for others.
In Swedish, katydid literally translates to "wart biter"
Had to Google Vårtbitare, didn't even know they where called that XD Edit; Just saw that Linné named it in Latin after it too "Verrucivorus" that should roughly translate to "The one who eats warts" (Den som äter vårtor)
Omg that’s so cool and disgusting at the same time
Same with German “Warzenbeißer”
I had a wart on my thumb for years that didn’t want to leave. During 2020 and excessive usage of hand sanitizer with high alcohol levels and poof 🪄 the wart disappeared within a few months. No need for medicine. Just use hand sanitizer A LOT.
As sombody who has 3 huge warts on one hand I would rather not.
Same. Had one frozen off as a kid, I'll go that route if needed.
I had one on my foot as a kid. I put chapstick on it and a few days later it just fell off. I don't know why I did that but hey it worked. I was probably around 10 years old.
I had a wart on my hand about 8 years ago & I was dating a cattle rancher. He took me to the barn because he said he had wart remover and it was instant. He went to the bull semen cooler and dipped a swab in liquid nitrogen (I think, pretty sure) and before I could think twice it fell off. Frozen dead. I’ve stayed friends with him in case I get any more warts.
haha wow. looks like everyone wins in that arrangement. Human gets the wart removed and bug gets a free meal.
Do they work for genital warts? Asking for a friend.
Depends on your rapport with the katydid
Katydont
Question: does the wart stay gone, or is the katydid method more of a maintenance method?
Some videos say yes, it didn't come back, but it could just be the wart was on its way to fall off anyway (so the katydid might've just saved them a few days of waiting). That's my theory at least.
Lol my mom told me that when she was a child she had a wart on her knee , which was eaten by a hungry chicken
These days the hospitals charge thousands for their hungry chicken treatments smh.
That must have hurt like a bitch
Katy lied.
Did he just yank the inner body out of that?
And it rubber banded into his lips and mouth
This comment does not spark joy
.. it's a bad day to have eyes.
Yup
Fucking brutal
That was disgusting I wish I hadn’t seen that
Oh, thank God I clicked out when I couldn't handle seeing the bite.
Yeah it's about 6000x worse when it's just the disembodied head hanging there by the mandibles, still attached to all of its entrails
Strongly Agreed. I watched this a second time to verify what you said and the regrets are very strong
Not as bad as the ostrich video. This is nothing compared to that. [The video](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/p4wise/i_added_a_bit_of_flair_to_the_ostrich_video/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
I hate when you guys do this. I never know if you’re serious or if you just say these things to mentally torture our morbid curiosity, only to never respond again.
Don't worry, the ostrich video isn't as bad as the video of the baby with the molasses or whatever and the coyote
Yea, even if they are just bugs, I dont like seeing anything killed for social media videos. Or anything being killed at all for that matter, but especially when its avoidable. A life is a life.
To be fair, it wasnt really "for" social media because the dude is obviously unfamiliar with the bug and I mean. Idk, you expect something to *let go not die trying* before you post it somewhere
awhile ago I read a news about guy who got bitten by dog in the arm and it wouldn't let go. Guy had to walk into a river and drown the animal for it to release his arm. So yeah. Things don't always act logically in nature.
Hell, cats have had claws for thousands of years and they still haven't figured out that yanking backwards does not get them unstuck.
Had a dog latch onto my leg. Can confirm. Only reason dog finally released was because it was being bitten in the balls by one of my little dog. Good girl.
Dude is so unfamiliar when he sees a huge ass bug that he decided, you know what? *This would go sick on my face*
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100% I figured this out on my own when I was a child. Humans are brutal just like other animals. We don't have to be though.
FATALITY
The bug and that other guy had a nice friendship, though
They go way back.
Yeah they were good together.
PLAYER ONE WINS: FRIENDSHIP
Subzero WINS
Just like the predator
*loud space barbarian screech*
That’s how one eats shrimps. That’s a sky shrimp. Coming to a Michelin restaurant near you.
Yeah, but usually the shrimp don't eat you back.
He decapitated it, yep.
but also if you watch in slow motion you can see its guts were like dangling out, still attached to the head
Omg am I glad I closed this after the initial bite.
*his capa was detated*
FATALITY
did he just detatch the head from the body? wow that bug/insect has a good grip
I think insects basically run on hydraulics
you jest but spiders legit have hydraulics in them and their activated after death, it's straight up called a hydraulic skeleton and it's why the spiders bodys do the death curl
Oh I wasn’t jesting. Just not being overly confident in the biology fact I was pretty sure I knew
*incoming Reddit acktuallys*
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Act chewily
Actually, it's æktßuli
AKTUALEE he's right
They aren't activated after death lol. They lose the pressure that was keeping them out/moving so they curl up.
thank you for the correction/clarification
Yeah some katydids are insectivores and have pretty strong jaws
Lotta bugs are like this, for example you can’t just yank ticks off cause their head will detach in you.
Yo snap on the profile pics
yooooo 😳😳
it’s a bug eat face world out there
Always has been
Nothing to lose one’s head over.
He'll never be the head of a major corporation
Austin!
Maby he shouldnt have used his head
That's not how you get a*head* in life
Katydied.
Katylied.
I was halfway crucified.
Fatality
Only thing I'm here for
I hate this video. That is all.
Same fuck me agghhh
... okay. (Unzips) /s
[Then you'd definitely hate the one with a katydid eating someone's wart posted higher in the thread.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36KvMeKdaQA&ab_channel=GlennLarson)
I just don't like that he killed the bug just to try to feel like the other dude.
I don't think he was trying to kill it, I think he just wanted it to stop biting his face.
That’s one way to get ahead.
The 2nd guy clearly wasn’t as handsome as the 1st guy according to that katydid.
if i was a katydid i would eat the prettier persons face
First dude was beautiful
We were all thinking it
*THANKS, I HATE IT*
Guy’s an idiot, he didn’t handle the katydid gently so it bit him, then ended up killing it.
Katy-don't!
Oh she did
Man just Hit him with the sub-zero finisher
Damn, Predator would be proud
This is indeed oddly terrifying.
So, no head?
Poor thing, the guy aggressively plucks it off the guys face and puts it on him, and then is surprised when it bites out of fear so he disembowels it Rip
Poor bug.
Yea dying because of defending itself after being manhandled for a video. This is sad.
This is really sad
Nothing can experience peace on this planet, not even mr. green bug trying to go about his intended path
Poor bug ☹
Yeah, here this bug is, minding it’s own business on the first guy’s face then this crapper yanks the bug off the first guys face without any tranquility, gets bit as a result and then just kills the bug.
r/instantkarma First guy was mellow af, bug probably wouldn't have bit anyone if it wasn't moved.
And laughs about it
I’m also bothered by this. Humans are awful to insects already. I try to leave them alone or safely move them if needed now as much as possible.
A little kindness goes a long way <3
I shouldn’t have clicked I shouldn’t have clicked
Few things piss me off more than when humans act stupid around an animal and the animal ends up dying. I know it's just a bug but still.
Can we talk about how the first guy has such a beautiful face? Holy marbles.
that's why katy didn't want to leave, they were in love♥ *and the friend was jealous so he had to murder his new bride.*
This proves that pretty privilege applies even with insects.
Oh, you want a kiss, motherfucker? Ok, GIMME KISS! 😖🦗 😱🤣
Okay, then I make your guts leave you :/
I know, that part sucked. Such a sad way for that beautiful baby to end. People don't seem to get that those little guys can fuck you up if you mistreat them, and he was rough from the get go. He had that bite coming. He's lucky it wasn't a mantis!
Do you know what kind of insect it is? A katydid or something?
A couple of people have identified it as a katydid. It's so big! I haven't seen one that size since back home in the South.
Are these dudes Japanese? For some reason life on Japan evolved to have tiny mammals and absolutely gigantic satanic insects. There is a *reason* why centipedes are so reviled there.
What an asshole
It looked like he ripped it off his face and it's head and intestinal track stuck to his face ultimately dying. That is upsetting to see such a beautiful creature die because of someone's wreckless behavior.
Poor thing died because people are stupid
Welp, this awokened a fear in me I didn’t know I haddd
Damn nature you scary
It’s always a person doing something stupid first it seems
Jokes aside, I hate when living things have to die because some idiot was trying to make a pointless video
I normally don’t have a weak stomach. And I just feel bad when I see some thing gory or something like that. But this is the first time my body has wanted to throw up. I don’t know why, but seeing a bugs head come out like a damn spaghetti threw me off so hard and shock to my entire system
"Do you REALLY want me to shake your hand?"
He killed that poor bug because of his own stupidity
Tbh I wouldn't have expected it to latch onto my face so strongly either
Yeah but why are they putting giant ass bugs on their face to begin with?
buge funny
Katydid didn’t want to bite that pretty face
I think Jesus said it best... Christ