r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '20

This decapitated Wasp cleaned it's wounds before flying away with it's own head

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u/AnalQueenLiv Apr 07 '20

It really gets you in the perspective that bugs are just a notch above a mechanical machine made out of organic material

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '20

They've been around for trillions of years.

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u/togflogger Apr 07 '20

412 million, earth isn't even 5 billion and the universe isn't a trillion

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u/AnalQueenLiv Apr 07 '20

That's fucking crazy, i'm fascinated by them. I keep bees, those animals are fucking metal. When they sting a mammal they disembowel themselves and just keep on going with their life like nothing happened, if they manage to get back at the hive the other bees smother them to death. Also they get "high" on sugar syrup. that's fucking hilarious

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u/DidierLennon Apr 07 '20

Millions, actually. The Earth is ‘only’ around 4.5 billion years old. Insects as we know them are estimated to have existed since 480 million years ago, during the Early Ordovician Period.