I'm glad this is an "insect-thing" and not a "human-thing!"
I wouldn't want to be food!

Very interesting and weird. I lol'd at the "im so pwned" comment. haha

That's messed up, and strangely beautiful at the same time.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Throbbin.

I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Why don't you put her in charge!?!?!

Bill Fucking Paxton ftw.

Hmmm the classification or tags on this video are a philosophical mess. We are claiming that an animal is evil by the method of which it preys on its food source? Are lions evil? Cockroaches spread all sorts of disease, why isn't it "good" to mess with them?

Meh, very cool video, but I don't agree with stating that it is in any way "evil." Nature is *nature

"The roach's breathing slows."

Isn't roach "breathing" mostly passive gas exchange?

>> ^ponceleon:

Hmmm the classification or tags on this video are a philosophical mess. We are claiming that an animal is evil by the method of which it preys on its food source? Are lions evil? Cockroaches spread all sorts of disease, why isn't it "good" to mess with them?
Meh, very cool video, but I don't agree with stating that it is in any way "evil." Nature is nature


Though listed as aggressive and territorial, Monster Manual lists wasps as "Always Neutral".

Lions as well.

Is it just me or did the roach shit itself @ 2:15 ??

>> ^ponceleon:

Hmmm the classification or tags on this video are a philosophical mess. We are claiming that an animal is evil by the method of which it preys on its food source? Are lions evil? Cockroaches spread all sorts of disease, why isn't it "good" to mess with them?
Meh, very cool video, but I don't agree with stating that it is in any way "evil." Nature is nature


I can't help but think of the Ichneumon Wasp, another parisitoid wasp about which Charles Darwin wrote:

"I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars"

I agree with you that the wasp isn't evil or even malicious. But it is, intentionally or not, cruel. And I think it's one of the best instincts of humans that we are often troubled by the cruelty and suffering we see in nature.

Evolution schmevolution! God(tm)'s beautiful creatures doing what they do best

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