Anyone know what kind of bug this is?
Anyone know what kind of bug this is?
Carpenter Ant.
It’s fucking huge, has wings, massive pincers and is not afraid of my giant swarm of spiders
In fact it’s actively walking straight into their webs and not being bothered by it and trying to find spiders to eat
This thing is crazy
Plumber Beetle
It will build you wonders and buildings of your dreams.
I have genuinely never been more afraid of an insect
This thing is off its head
Stick that bad boy into your penis hole OP,
For science of course.
I usually don't see winged ants until early July. What shithole country are you in?
What are the chances this thing is a government bug spy drone?
Bug is acting extremely strange
look at this guy... can you believe this??? preposterous
pipefitter wasp
Mud dauber.
They feed their young spiders.
Different ones are different colors.
Rape cricket
A turk?
exhaust spider, quite common
Carpenter Ant.
May be one of these, but that is a queen, you might want to kill that fucker, get it put it in a small container with something like gasoline in it and keep it outside.
They are like wasps, kill them and they exude a pheromone that attracts workers, so by killing it sealed, a colony is missing it's queen or no colony will be built meaning no fucking ants being everywhere in your home.
What sort of carpenter ant do you reckon it is? Because it doesn't look like the results of inputting carpenter ant into a search engine.
Are you sure that’s it? It does look similar but the one I saw had no yellow on it at all.
I would absolutely never kill an insect like this, it was honestly amazing to see in person. I kept the door shut tight and eventually the bug went away (I think) but it was huge and checked out every nook and cranny of my balcony for hours. Not sure where it is now, probably flew off
t doesn't look like the results of inputting carpenter ant into a search engine.
That’s what I thought too. It does look similar but whatever I saw had two giant fang pincer things that were way bigger than it’s head.
I didn’t even know bugs like this existed, scared to even leave the house now
I mean just look at its head. What the fuck was it.
I rescind my comment. Not a mud dauber. Not a wasp.
Bull ant
I think it might be some sort of trap jaw ant.
That looks much similar thank you
Here it is crawling under a thick web unaffected
Trapjaw ants, specifically the Odontomachus species, are relatively large ants, with workers typically ranging from 10 to 20 mm in length. Queens can be even larger, reaching up to 22 mm, and males are smaller, around 12 to 16 mm.
The one I saw today was about 80-100mm (not lying)
So it was either a fucking massive queen or a mating male
I don't know, just ask reddit, this is the only thing they're good for. Tell them your rough location. No it's not a fucking mud dauber wasp Jesus Christ. Looks like some kind of winged ant.
Man imagine having eyes that wide apart
Why is it cute though
Its a species of bull ant...
That sounds like a dobsonfly or maybe an antlion.
Sacabambaspis can imagine
That’s exactly what it was. You won
Lmao animals are aliens
Oh great
Good thing I didn’t put it inside my cock like that one anon suggested
What, exactly, was this ant doing that got you so alarmed?
Their bite is painful, they also jump pretty far. Been bitten before because I have a nest in my front yard
Well my cat and I were sitting on a couch having a nice time but my cat became very alarmed and wouldn’t stop meowing. He had noticed the ant and went to the door. When I went to see what the fuss was about this giant black organism with huge spiked pincers raced past and I finally got to see what he was worried about
Then the ant climbed up a wall and kept staring at me and doing weird shit. I think you had to be there but the way it just appeared and started acting like it owned the place was disgusting
I was surprised by how smart it was
I mean it was crawling up to high spots looking on cracks and corners for spiders
And I’m 20 stories high in a sky scraper so I don’t even know how the hell it got up here to begin with
It's a queen anon, of course it will act like it owns the place.
I have seen ants before and bull ants but this was much bigger
Probably seven or eight times bigger than the largest ant id ever seen
So I think it was a shock realising ants can grow that big
Why is it trying to start a colony on a skyscraper though if it’s a queen
Shouldn’t it be trying to fuck male ants in the dirt at a park or something
They fuck in the air anon, ants invented the mile high club, once they've had their freak on they land looking for a place to make a colony.
what the fuck am I watching
youtube.com
Bro it has wings, it can fly.
Something like one out of 17 invertebrates in the atmosphere is a spider. The tiny ones can shoot out a thread of silk and pull some static electricity bullshit and get up into the jet stream and just travel the world for a couple weeks.
So if you commit some horrible sin that results in your death, and you have to pick a lesser animal than a human to be reincarnated as, go with the flying spider. That's got to be trippy as heck.
go with the flying spider.
Several species of spider does that as adolescents, so if I were to do the karmic reincarnation thing, I'd go for one of the orb weaver spiders who does that.
The tiny ones can shoot out a thread of silk and pull some static electricity bullshit and get up into the jet stream and just travel the world for a couple weeks.
I have seen them do that and it’s very pretty (but from a distance haha)
However
Ballooning can be dangerous (due to predators, and due to the unpredictable nature of long-distance ballooning, which may bring individuals to an unfavorable environment).
As a ballooning spider you have no control over your trajectory and are entirely dependent on the wind. Every year billions of juvenile spiders die while ballooning as the wind leads them to land in dangerous places, like oceans, or roadways where they are crushed by a car.
For that reason I’d definitely not want to be reincarnated as a ballooning spider sorry
The ballooning spider has little control over where it travels and could end up landing on water, which has been thought to be unsuitable for its survival.
As I understand it “kiting” or “ballooning” only happens once as a very very young spider, and it’s done as a form of spreading the spider’s genetics over as wide of an area as possible.
Say you’re a mother giving birth to 50 children and want to spread them over as big of an area as possible. Basically they use kiting to ensure they can do that.
It’s usually a one off event immediately after birth, and the rest of their lives are then spent on trees or whatever.
Being a spider would suck ngl.
If I could come back as any spider it’d be one that could at least travel on water but not many can do that
and it’s done as a form of spreading the spider’s genetics over as wide of an area as possible.
Ballooning is the reason that orb weavers in north america and europe are a lot closer related than one would assume.