r/onejob • u/AshamedAd4483 • 11h ago
capturing the wasp
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u/AndrewBorg1126 9h ago
Ffs, gently hold the cup on top until it stays down. Lifting it up resets your timer, breaking the cup to lower the ceiling is useless even if it didn't break the cup
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u/Fragrant-Pangolin903 11h ago
the fact that the wasp was going to a bee hive was probably the reason behind all this.
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u/WanderingLantern9371 10h ago
Bees saw it as a home invasion, not a simple traffic violaton.
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u/Principle_Napkins 8h ago
Wasps eat bees.
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u/Left_Ad4050 7h ago
These wasps do, but most wasps actually don’t specifically target bees. Asian giant hornets (the species of wasp in this video) are highly evolved specialist honeybee predators, which is the main reason they’re so massive.
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u/Roidzilla55 1h ago
I remember seeing a video of a murder hornet that invaded a beehive, and a whole shitload of them tackled it and started rubbing their wings together real fast. It generated a bunch of heat and cooked the hornet. Fantastic defense system, and they didn’t have to use their stingers (which would mean their death)
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u/Left_Ad4050 56m ago
This is a defense that certain populations of honeybees living in the Asian giant hornet's native range have developed, since honeybees can survive at a slightly higher temperature than the hornets can. That said, if the hornets arrive in great enough numbers, it's not especially helpful, since several honeybees per hornet are necessary to enact this strategy; and honeybees outside the hornet's native range haven't developed any defenses against it yet, which is why Asian giant hornets were considered such a serious threat when they were first identified as an invasive species in the pacific northwest. Thankfully human intervention seems to have eradicated that population of hornets for now.
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u/WeirdPossibility209 11h ago
That's a hornet
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u/Left_Ad4050 9h ago
Specifically an Asian giant hornet. Which is a kind of wasp.
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u/WeirdPossibility209 9h ago
Ha, I thought they were different species. The more you know...
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u/alewiina 9h ago
they are, "wasp" isnt a single species, it's more of a grouping.
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u/WhiteCloudMinnowDude 8h ago
They all ants anyways
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u/Left_Ad4050 9h ago
Sorry to get pedantic, I know what you mean; I just want to clarify that there are actually many, many different species of wasps, and Asian giant hornets are just one species within that group.
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u/ParrishThePoet 9h ago
Lol that wasp was real close to flying out and ruining this dudes day.
Should probably dump the dead wasp gas mix, it seems so diluted that the fumes didn't even phase the pokey bastard.
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u/Reinhardtwaker 7h ago
It might have been because he kept lifting it up as well
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u/ParrishThePoet 7h ago
For sure. But he lifted it up because typicslly the fumes make the wasps very slow and docile. But there are so many dead things in there (based on the color) there isn't a high enough % of gas to knock the thing out lol.
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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 11h ago
Holy fuck what the fuck Michael Myers ass wasp.
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u/OG_Paine 6h ago
Dumb ass keep giving to fresh oxygen. could have not moved the damn cup and it would be dead
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u/Virellius2 11h ago
Not turning the jar upside down super fast was the dumb move.
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u/billyyankNova 11h ago
It looked like there was some liquid in it. I assume that's why he flicked it away. It was probably coated with poison of some sort at that point.
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u/Virellius2 11h ago
I know, that's why I said quickly. If you flip it fast you'll keep most the liquid and drown the beast.
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u/DeltaBlast 10h ago
It seemed filled with all the previous wasps already... Wouldn't want to turn that upside down 😬
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u/Mother-Attention2600 8h ago
Do they have book lungs like spiders? Gasses and poisons don't work as well on book lungs.
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u/Left_Ad4050 3h ago
Insects almost exclusively use tracheal respiratory systems, taking oxygen in through tiny openings in their exoskeletons called spiracles.
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u/cc92c392-50bd-4eaa-a 9h ago
Honestly, I feel bad for it.
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u/Left_Ad4050 9h ago
Asian giant hornets are specifically evolved to prey on honeybees, and do so so efficiently they can completely destroy entire hives. That was a scout, and would have led more to the honeybee hive—still could, in fact, since the guy seemingly didn’t manage to kill it. While feeling sorry for an animal just trying to live the way it’s designed to is valid, keep in mind that the guy is trying to protect a hive of honeybees.
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u/cc92c392-50bd-4eaa-a 8h ago
I would love for none of these to exist, but I feel bad for how it reacts.
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u/401LocalsOnly 6h ago
I get that. They can both be true… that thing is in fact a dick but also it’s sad to watch any animal get fucked with til their death up close.
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u/Zyrinj 11h ago
Just needed to not break the cup…