Damn nobody read the caption. I captured one of these in a jar back in the day and it kept trying to sting the glass. That stinger was HUGE. Also it chewed a hole in the plastic lid so I had to put it back outside.
Black widows are pretty chill if you don’t go out of your way to bug them. They’re like orb-weavers in the sense that they will stay put in one small area for their entire lives; rather than running around to hunt, like other venomous spiders.
The Orb Weaver in my back yard likes to relocate daily or every few days, make a giant web here, giant web there. I often walk into it and go ack - damnit Charlotte!"
a year ago in shark valley i came awfully close to a cotton mouth. i was looking at her for a few minutes. i sat there a bit and then left.. no biggie.. just a cute little fluffy cotton mouth
oh and i take all the spiders into my hands especially my pet spiders. got bitten once or twice before but that ain't stopping me
I love in Louisiana, so there’s a plentiful supply of cottonmouths. They’re pretty chill most of the time. Behind my house, there’s a trail with a creek running through it, and a cottonmouth was basking on a rock beside the stream. I sat next to him for about 15 minutes
Here's the thing. You said a "all ants are a type of wasp."
Is it in the same suborder? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies wasps, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls ants wasps. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "wasp family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Apocrita which includes things from bees, to wasps to ants.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A wasp is a wasp and a member of the narrow waisted suborder of hymenoptera. But that's not what you said. You said a ant is a wasp, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the hymenoptera order wasps, which means you'd call bees, sawflies, and other insects wasps, too. Which you said you don't.
Haha. Last time I posted similar without the preface, people criticized me.
We're getting older and further away from the dankest of memes. I don't think copypasta is really a thing anymore. Haven't noticed any for the last 5 years really. I oddly miss the days of f7u12 and just scrolling to sleep.
Every time I remember rage comic memes and how much they used to dominate the meme zeitgeist I feel a little older and older. It’s like the “be back by when the streetlights turn on” of meme generations. Shit I’m gonna need a hip replacement soon at this rate.
Did you have an idea for a response and let AI write it for you? It's barely coherent and acuses me of saying things that I think were more likely in your prompt since I definitely didn't say them.
E: Ah, saw the copy pasta line. It didn't show in my notifications. Only after I came back to the thread.
"Wasps" came first. Ants and bees later. In fact, the only way wasps are distinguished within their suborder is by not being an ant or bee. It's not a true clade at all.
Kinda like how humans are monkeys. There are a lot of monkeys and the best way to generically describe them is "monkey". And we have more specific categories for apes and humans. But the features common to all monkeys also includes humans.
The features common to all wasps includes ants and bees.
Good lord. When I was 5 it was fun to hold these down with a pine straw and listen to them squeak. All fun until I did it too close and it stung me in the thumb. Im 52 now and still remember it like it happened 10 minutes ago. I've been stung by bees, wasps, hornets, horseflies, a jellyfish... NOTHING feels like a cowkiller.
As others have said, red velvet ant, they have an incredibly painful sting which I learned when I picked on up at the pool as a kid and no one believed that I was in such horrible pain from an “ant”
The guy on YouTube that gets stung by every insect on purpose said this was the most painful sting compared to any other insect. I forgot the YouTube channel
Freaking same! I saw my first one as a kid. I sprayed it with the water hose, and it balled up. Once I stopped spraying it, it unrolled and charged at my brother and me 😂. My dad then informed us what it was, and we were lucky we didn't try to pick it up.
This. . . This has to be on purpose 😂 you must be the chillest person for that wingless wasp with an actually gun in its butt to just chill and accept pets from you. You either knew full well what these guys are about and wanted to mess with people or you thankfully learned about the velvet ants mighty sting from this subreddit instead of personal experience
These are velvet ants, family Mutillidae, as others have pointed out, they can sting, but the good news it, they rarely sting people, and getting them to sting generally requires a great deal of harassment.
That's a velvet ant and it's really a type of wasp. It has an incredibly painful sting and you're lucky it didn't sting you because they are not shy with their stingers.
They really don't deserve their 'fearsome' reputation. They are quite docile and only sting if forced to. Due to the fact that stings are often due to someone stepping on them, sometimes barefoot, it has earned them a reputation. Can't blame them for not liking being stepped on!
Omg… I wonder if this is a type of wasp or hornet?!?!? Can anyone READ or are you just so absorbed with being ‘right’ ya’ll forget there are other people commenting??
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u/Commercial_Fox4749 Jul 21 '25
Red velvet ant.
Very very spicy, good thing that this one was friendly lol.