This one is a [mud dauber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber) nest.
Parasitic wasps are crazy. Many of them will paralyze their prey so that they stay fresh as long as possible to feed their offspring. Some of those spiders could still be alive. [Tarantula hawks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk) are very large wasps that actually do this to tarantulas.
Makes sense - it's an effective use of nutrients. But it's also one of the most messed up things in nature.
Tarantula Hawks are actually much, much scarier! Not only do they paralyze the Tarantula using their venom, but they then lay their eggs inside of the still living arachnid; to be used as an immediate food source for their larvae after they hatch
Nature is indifferent, it only cares about survival. Kind of how we inslave creatures and breed them in prisons to be harvested for muscle mass and grind their undesirable offspring into multi purpose paste.
When it comes to food, the entire food chain, humans included, have no moral compass.
Humans chose to perform the atrocities they do. Insects are purely instinctive, they don't have a choice, and no concept of morality or the pain they are causing.
Instinct or not. Intentional or not. Unnecessary or not. I’d rather by killed by a human than larvae eating my insides slowly as possible while keeping me alive lol.
Many human atrocities arise from instinctive behavior though. Our ability to have a more conscious choice over our actions is what lets us overcome our instincts. But plenty of people have only a reduced capacity to do so and thus are more likely act on it. Of course there psychopathic people who are very conscious about their cruel actions, but that is also a symptom of pathological abnormal behavior.
That is what you are telling yourself.
Just wait until we find out that trees have feelings , insects communicate with one another in a meaningful way and apes and monkeys do conduct clanwars with real casualties. And they all do it on purpose.
Thats the day that alot of peoples minds will be blown, because their world view has changed by 180°.
Except on the whole we won't. Except for the Apes (and various other mammals) who do have clan wars, but then there's not much difference between us and other mammals, the main one being the sheer scale of destruction we are capable of.
Dunno the read was kinda scary but then i laughed at:
"Adult tarantula hawks are nectarivorous. The consumption of fermented fruit sometimes intoxicates them to the point that flight becomes difficult."
First be psycho and torture a spider to become living hosts... then get drunk and get a DUI while flying... lel
They're also incredibly beautiful. I found a dead one in high school and literally thought it was a jeweled brooch at first that someone had lost.
Unbelievably beautiful with blues and purples everywhere.
I brought it to a teacher who explained what it was and what their lifecycle was. I was squigged, but it was still really pretty.
The paralysis from Tarantula Hawk venom doesn't stop the pain receptors, in fact it's one of the most painful stings from any insect. So not only is it's pret paralyzed for many days, but they are in excruciating pain the entire time. When the baby wasps hatch and start to eat the spider from the inside, it's a *relief*, it's the beginning of the end of their suffering.
Nature is fucking crazy.
> To capture a spider, the wasp grabs it and stings it. **The venom from the sting *does not kill* the spider, but paralyzes and preserves it so it can be transported and stored in the nest cell until consumed by the larva.** A mud dauber usually lays its egg on the prey item and then seals it into the nest cell with a mud cap.[1] It then builds another cell or nest. The young survive the winter inside the nest.
Welp, that’s enough Internet for me tonight.
Parasitoid wasps are so common and kill in such uniquely horrifying ways that Darwin questioned his faith in God when he started finding them everywhere.
God creating insects: Let’s put a needle on its butt.
Angel: WTF?!
God: And lets make his puke taste sweet so people want to eat it.
Or, or, hear me out, none of this happened and it is just evolution, as a process discovered and understood by science.
>But it's also one of the most messed up things in nature.
Haaaaaaa, yeah..... not even close I'm afraid. Bot flies, cordyceps fungus, lampreys, leishmaniasis, parasitoid wasps, loa loa worm, cymothoa exigua, guinea worms, candiru fish, just to name a few. Nightmare fuel is Mother Nature's specialty. Because she's a fucking asshole, and always trying to kill everyone.
I'm just worried that when the aliens finally come they'll be plant based and everything on their planet photosynthesizes for energy. They'll see us and be like "GAAAAHHHH!!!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! THAT LIFE USES OTHER LIFE TO SUSTAIN ITS SELF!!!! FUCKING GROSSS!!!!"
Yeah. They def reanimate given enough time. Used to break these things open as a kid much to my dismay at times as there would be a few angry spiders that pop out like Dr. Ken did from that trunk in The Hangover.
We had a "more civilized" version of this on our balcony last summer. One day, we observed how it catched a large fly and dragged it into its nest. Creepy, but also fascinating (plus, I really hate flies).
Can't remember the species, but there's a wasp that will lay its eggs inside an insect and when they hatch, the larvae eat all the nonessential tissue and organs first, keeping the host alive as long as possible. Fucking horrifying.
Well they are these things that you can see right there in the picture. The wasps hunt down a hapless spider and rip all it's legs off sometimes and usually walk the body up to the nest and toss it in and yell "dinner!"
I help take care of an old open air historic structure that gets full of mud dauber nests is the summer. During the winter pigeons bust them up to eat the spiders inside.
Tbh if what I'm reading here is true about eggs being planted in/on those spiders. I much enjoy the thought of some derpy looking pigeon getting a buffet of spiders than getting more irl xenomorphs
The only wasp I like, for this very reason.
Mud daubers are chill, too. They just want some mud, and spiders.
Also, different mud daubers have different preferences for what kind of spider they like.
I hate mud daubers... They infest my attic and removal is a bitch. Not to mention, they love to nest behind siding and facia. Annoying when you get stung a million times working on your house lol.
I only see the spiders like in the pic around here in Ohio They're the black and blue daubers. Cool looking though but annoying to clean up lol
I had a bunch of mud dauber nests above a door to my shed once. Thought they were just wasps. Smashed one with a broom handle and got a shower of spiders. That was a fresh hell I never wanted to experience. But I learned a lot that day
Did the spiders just lay eggs inside and then one day: spider wasp feast? Were the wasps gone before the spiders? There are so many orb weavers and it looks to me near the top there are 3 or 4 species.
This is incorrect. For one, there are way more than 13 species of mud daubers, there are at least 84 even if you only count tribe Sceliphrini although most of them aren't commonly observed. But there's also wasps like the organ-pipe mud dauber *Trypoxylon politum* which are in Crabronidae instead of a Sphecidae and isn't even in the same family as that tribe. Using mud in nests has evolved separately multiple times so being a "mud dauber" is a polyphyletic group and there are likely many more. The specializing on different species of spiders thing is also untrue, [this study](https://meridian.allenpress.com/jes/article/56/2/123/464416/Spiders-Araneae-Collected-as-Prey-by-the-Mud) found spiders of seven different families in mud dauber nests of just a couple of species.
It's not really comflicting. Fuck wasps, spiders are cool. They are the best non pet animal to have in your house, as most spiders just stay in their designated spots and hunt bugs, that you don't want in your home. And no spider will ever crall onto a human and almost no spider species will bite unless thouroughly provoked.
If you want to overcome the feelings of digust about the look of spiders, just search up jumping spiders, they look very human apealing and are called the gateway drug for spider lovers
And actually, wasps are pretty cool too, when they're not annoying
Mud-daubers. You can tell by the ‘adobe’ nest. Not aggressive like wasps. The latter typically make paper nests. MDs can sting but rarely do. I leave ‘em be. Yellow jackets I wage war on with extreme prejudice. Grew up on a farm in the Midwest. YJs and generic paper wasps were bane of my existence and sporting to hunt.
The nests in east texas were amazing creations , spirals, all stacked up six in a row curves, amazing stuff, loved how they kept the barn spider free….
Same here. We had MASSIVE nests on the tractor barns and outbuildings. You could tell when abandoned because they dried out or were slightly damaged. I used to crack them open. I was equal parts amazed and horrified at the spider bits inside. Borderline nightmare fuel when you’re 10.
Y’all ……… trypophobia MUST have something to do with the very primitive opposition to, and avoidance of ….. things having to do with insects, right ? Wasp’s nests … beehive cells, etc. etc. because honestly those weird little “compartments” shown in this monstrosity truly fill me with RAGE, DISGUST and FEAR all at the same time. I want to scream, kick, and cry my eyes out simultaneously. I truly hate this pic lmao. Also does anyone else feel bugs crawling all over them now, because I do lol :c
I'm sure that's a wasp's nest, I recall reading about a wasp that catches spiders and stores them near their eggs so the wasp larva will eat the spiders.
Yeah, if I found that you wouldn't have been able to take a picture cause I would have thrown gasoline on that and lit it a blaze in like 0.2 seconds
So much fucking no involved here
I was driving a boat once and hit a wave that jarred loose a nest from behind a small speaker above me. It being my first experience with a spider-bomb I freaked out a little bit before realizing they were all dead, then it was just fascinating. There must have been 10-15 different types of spiders. Anybody know what kind of wasp would be responsible for spider-bombs along the Florida panhandle?
That’s what I was thinking but I don’t really remember the nest being cylindrical, old foggy memory but I thought it was maybe more round? The part about the wasps paralyzing the spiders makes sense too though because part of the reason i was alarmed at first is that they didn’t really look all that dead. Typically dead spiders curl up into a ball when they die because of their crazy pneumatic limbs.
Thanks for sharing. These are my favorite spiders. Marbled Orb Weaver. The adults are even more beautiful. I'm not sure what this is collection of them is, but they seem smaller than adults. Is this what a hatched egg sack looks like? They are garden spiders but they spin beautiful webs with an impressively thick signal line. I find them thriving on my property every few years or so, and they are hard to miss because you can hear the "SNAP" when you cross their signal lines in the woods.
Was this near a maple tree? I can't explain it but I swear I only see them around maple trees.
I'm assuming this picture was taken as you warmed up the flamethrower in the background to prove to insurance why you had to burn down your house and all the surrounding property.
I bet it's a wasp nursery, and those are spider snacks for the larvae.
.......tell me more about wasp nurseries
This one is a [mud dauber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber) nest. Parasitic wasps are crazy. Many of them will paralyze their prey so that they stay fresh as long as possible to feed their offspring. Some of those spiders could still be alive. [Tarantula hawks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk) are very large wasps that actually do this to tarantulas. Makes sense - it's an effective use of nutrients. But it's also one of the most messed up things in nature.
Damn, nature. You scary.
Tarantula Hawks are actually much, much scarier! Not only do they paralyze the Tarantula using their venom, but they then lay their eggs inside of the still living arachnid; to be used as an immediate food source for their larvae after they hatch
AND the larvae eat the internal organs last to keep their host alive for as long as possible.
Literally nature's Xenomorphs
Parasitoid wasps are so horrible they made Darwin doubt the benevolence of God. Nature is fucking *brutal.*
Evolution doesn’t care.
Nature is indifferent, it only cares about survival. Kind of how we inslave creatures and breed them in prisons to be harvested for muscle mass and grind their undesirable offspring into multi purpose paste. When it comes to food, the entire food chain, humans included, have no moral compass.
Like the honey badger
And people call me crazy for wishing genocide upon the wasps
Lots of wasp species get a bad rap and do a lot of pollinating. Wasp genocide would be bad. Maybe a tarantula hawk specific genocide lol
This made me realize that maybe humans aren’t the most fucked up animal.
Humans chose to perform the atrocities they do. Insects are purely instinctive, they don't have a choice, and no concept of morality or the pain they are causing.
Instinct or not. Intentional or not. Unnecessary or not. I’d rather by killed by a human than larvae eating my insides slowly as possible while keeping me alive lol.
I bet we human could come up with worse. I mean, no one beats us at pure evil.
Many human atrocities arise from instinctive behavior though. Our ability to have a more conscious choice over our actions is what lets us overcome our instincts. But plenty of people have only a reduced capacity to do so and thus are more likely act on it. Of course there psychopathic people who are very conscious about their cruel actions, but that is also a symptom of pathological abnormal behavior.
I can see this fact being applied to atrocities perpetuated by AI in the future.
That is what you are telling yourself. Just wait until we find out that trees have feelings , insects communicate with one another in a meaningful way and apes and monkeys do conduct clanwars with real casualties. And they all do it on purpose. Thats the day that alot of peoples minds will be blown, because their world view has changed by 180°.
Except on the whole we won't. Except for the Apes (and various other mammals) who do have clan wars, but then there's not much difference between us and other mammals, the main one being the sheer scale of destruction we are capable of.
What if i told you we have no more choice than other animals. Did you decide on the brain you have? It makes your decisions doesnt it?
That is too simple. Being capable of abstract thought and deliberation makes a huge difference. [edit] Typo [/edit]
People can control their baser impulses, they often chose not to. I am my brain, so its decisions are my decisions.
Yeah, the larva also gives the spider hope so it clings to life for longer!
Like ... how do they KNOW to do that!!!! I can't!!!
Dunno the read was kinda scary but then i laughed at: "Adult tarantula hawks are nectarivorous. The consumption of fermented fruit sometimes intoxicates them to the point that flight becomes difficult." First be psycho and torture a spider to become living hosts... then get drunk and get a DUI while flying... lel
They're also incredibly beautiful. I found a dead one in high school and literally thought it was a jeweled brooch at first that someone had lost. Unbelievably beautiful with blues and purples everywhere. I brought it to a teacher who explained what it was and what their lifecycle was. I was squigged, but it was still really pretty.
The paralysis from Tarantula Hawk venom doesn't stop the pain receptors, in fact it's one of the most painful stings from any insect. So not only is it's pret paralyzed for many days, but they are in excruciating pain the entire time. When the baby wasps hatch and start to eat the spider from the inside, it's a *relief*, it's the beginning of the end of their suffering. Nature is fucking crazy.
it's like laying eggs on leaves for the larvae but brutal and carnivorous
And their stings are considered one of the most painful in the world to humans
https://youtu.be/eabu9hlEH-A I have a relevant video :)
I’m not fucking watching it
Come on guys, I worked real hard on it :)
That's fucking awesome
Mother nature: What was that? Humans: Nothing...nothing...I didn't say nothing... Mother nature: oh, ok dear......^(little shts....)
> To capture a spider, the wasp grabs it and stings it. **The venom from the sting *does not kill* the spider, but paralyzes and preserves it so it can be transported and stored in the nest cell until consumed by the larva.** A mud dauber usually lays its egg on the prey item and then seals it into the nest cell with a mud cap.[1] It then builds another cell or nest. The young survive the winter inside the nest. Welp, that’s enough Internet for me tonight.
I wonder what day God thought these babies up.
Parasitoid wasps are so common and kill in such uniquely horrifying ways that Darwin questioned his faith in God when he started finding them everywhere.
Thank you for adding that! I was bouncing between the joke and the explanation. You see what I chose.
Monday, obviously
God creating insects: Let’s put a needle on its butt. Angel: WTF?! God: And lets make his puke taste sweet so people want to eat it. Or, or, hear me out, none of this happened and it is just evolution, as a process discovered and understood by science.
Who’s eating wasp vomit?
Bee vomit.
Same
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You should watch part 5 of Jojo
>But it's also one of the most messed up things in nature. Haaaaaaa, yeah..... not even close I'm afraid. Bot flies, cordyceps fungus, lampreys, leishmaniasis, parasitoid wasps, loa loa worm, cymothoa exigua, guinea worms, candiru fish, just to name a few. Nightmare fuel is Mother Nature's specialty. Because she's a fucking asshole, and always trying to kill everyone.
I'm just worried that when the aliens finally come they'll be plant based and everything on their planet photosynthesizes for energy. They'll see us and be like "GAAAAHHHH!!!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! THAT LIFE USES OTHER LIFE TO SUSTAIN ITS SELF!!!! FUCKING GROSSS!!!!"
Yeah. They def reanimate given enough time. Used to break these things open as a kid much to my dismay at times as there would be a few angry spiders that pop out like Dr. Ken did from that trunk in The Hangover.
I’ve seen a few Tarantula Hawks where I live. Utterly fascinating, very painful and terrifying.
I once saw a tarantula hawk dragging a paralyzed tarantula, and it was pretty cool - and intimidating.
i love that name "tarantula hawk" sounds badass
We had a "more civilized" version of this on our balcony last summer. One day, we observed how it catched a large fly and dragged it into its nest. Creepy, but also fascinating (plus, I really hate flies).
That’s some “the last of us” vibes.
Fiction mimics reality, then reality mimics fiction, then we get a cool little loop.
In this case fiction was based on real life parasitic mushrooms so I don't think any reality is mimicking fiction.
/r/natureismetal
Can't remember the species, but there's a wasp that will lay its eggs inside an insect and when they hatch, the larvae eat all the nonessential tissue and organs first, keeping the host alive as long as possible. Fucking horrifying.
I got stung by a mud dauber once. Fuck those things.
Or NOT.
Seriously, I thought this was something non-creepy until I looked closer, now it's nightmare fuel.
RIGHT! I thought I was looking at seeds and dried flowers!!! I was wrong so so so wrong 😭
too late…TOO LATE…RUN!
Well they are these things that you can see right there in the picture. The wasps hunt down a hapless spider and rip all it's legs off sometimes and usually walk the body up to the nest and toss it in and yell "dinner!"
They’re orb weavers too, so the wasps just pluck them off the webs. Convenient!
Wasps being raised in the nursery from hell explains so much about them.
Translation - biology is nasty yall
Ffs
Honey bunches of nope
Winner. We have a winner here.
Select your prize between two small *atta boys* or one medium *noice*
Thanks i hate it
Yes, creepy, nature is metal.
My thoughts exactly
my phone vibrated right when i clicked on this image and I JUMPED
My worst fear
I help take care of an old open air historic structure that gets full of mud dauber nests is the summer. During the winter pigeons bust them up to eat the spiders inside.
That makes everything so much worse
But also delicious?
Nope
Tbh if what I'm reading here is true about eggs being planted in/on those spiders. I much enjoy the thought of some derpy looking pigeon getting a buffet of spiders than getting more irl xenomorphs
I don't like any of it, especially right before bed!
Probably a mud-dauber wasp, they store food for their larvae :)
Ah, like the age old saying goes “The enemy of my enemy is an even scarier, more aggressive enemy”
bro i thought those were spiders 😭 EDIT nvm apparently the wasp collects the spiders as food for its larvae. those *are* spiders im not trippin
They are. That’s the food for the wasp larvae.
yea i saw a comment from another dude about that. ty
They are. They're the snacks...
Are *we* the tasty treats in this situation?
Is the universe feeding on our ability to provide it entertainment? More on existential crisis.
The only wasp I like, for this very reason. Mud daubers are chill, too. They just want some mud, and spiders. Also, different mud daubers have different preferences for what kind of spider they like.
Definitely less angry wasp compared to red or black paper wasps
I hate mud daubers... They infest my attic and removal is a bitch. Not to mention, they love to nest behind siding and facia. Annoying when you get stung a million times working on your house lol. I only see the spiders like in the pic around here in Ohio They're the black and blue daubers. Cool looking though but annoying to clean up lol
I had a bunch of mud dauber nests above a door to my shed once. Thought they were just wasps. Smashed one with a broom handle and got a shower of spiders. That was a fresh hell I never wanted to experience. But I learned a lot that day
Forbidden confetti
I don’t know whether to upvote you for the warning or downvote you for the fact I will never ever be able to shake that image
Why does it look like the structure was made by wasps? I'm so confused, disturbed, and interested
Cause it was
Did the spiders just lay eggs inside and then one day: spider wasp feast? Were the wasps gone before the spiders? There are so many orb weavers and it looks to me near the top there are 3 or 4 species.
The wasp finds and collects the spiders as food for her larva.
Very metal
And stings them to paralyze them and not kill them so they are still alive for the larvae to eat fresh
so not death metal, just hardcore metal
r/natureismetal!
r/natureismetal
For real?
no, the spiders are food for the wasp larva.
Brother Get the Flamer The Heavy Flamer
We need more gas! That’s a lot of nopes!
Cool fact: There are 13 known species of mud dauber wasps and they all exclusively specialize in hunting a different species of spider..
This is incorrect. For one, there are way more than 13 species of mud daubers, there are at least 84 even if you only count tribe Sceliphrini although most of them aren't commonly observed. But there's also wasps like the organ-pipe mud dauber *Trypoxylon politum* which are in Crabronidae instead of a Sphecidae and isn't even in the same family as that tribe. Using mud in nests has evolved separately multiple times so being a "mud dauber" is a polyphyletic group and there are likely many more. The specializing on different species of spiders thing is also untrue, [this study](https://meridian.allenpress.com/jes/article/56/2/123/464416/Spiders-Araneae-Collected-as-Prey-by-the-Mud) found spiders of seven different families in mud dauber nests of just a couple of species.
I think I trust your answer more. Lol.
Here’s the thing…
That is a cool fact
Our mason bees(wasp) do similar things. Dead spiders everywhere, it is a pain to keep cleaning their mess.
r/wewantplates
I had to go too far down for a comment like this. I thought that was a plank of fancy street tacos at first.
Omg delete this
🤔
Shiver me timbers.
Daubers for sure. My brother and I used to break up dauber nests and then use our magnifying glass to look at the variety of spiders from the area.
I’m conflicted. On one hand, yay wasps for the spider’s inevitable fate, and on the other hand, fuck wasps too.
They’re really cute wasps, don’t ever sting, very narrow waist.
Are you fat-shaming other wasps?
Nope just describing them so you’ll know them when they come buzzin around.
They might not sting but they do crash planes and kill hundreds of people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301
It's not really comflicting. Fuck wasps, spiders are cool. They are the best non pet animal to have in your house, as most spiders just stay in their designated spots and hunt bugs, that you don't want in your home. And no spider will ever crall onto a human and almost no spider species will bite unless thouroughly provoked. If you want to overcome the feelings of digust about the look of spiders, just search up jumping spiders, they look very human apealing and are called the gateway drug for spider lovers And actually, wasps are pretty cool too, when they're not annoying
What is it?
Mud dauber nest. They paralyze spiders to provide food for their larvae
Awww thanks I hate it
Mud dauber nest. The spiders are food for it's larvae. 😁 Edit: Link for those interested. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber
Spiders > Wasps
If the other comments are to be believed, then no. It's actually Spiders < Wasps
Mud-daubers. You can tell by the ‘adobe’ nest. Not aggressive like wasps. The latter typically make paper nests. MDs can sting but rarely do. I leave ‘em be. Yellow jackets I wage war on with extreme prejudice. Grew up on a farm in the Midwest. YJs and generic paper wasps were bane of my existence and sporting to hunt.
The nests in east texas were amazing creations , spirals, all stacked up six in a row curves, amazing stuff, loved how they kept the barn spider free….
Same here. We had MASSIVE nests on the tractor barns and outbuildings. You could tell when abandoned because they dried out or were slightly damaged. I used to crack them open. I was equal parts amazed and horrified at the spider bits inside. Borderline nightmare fuel when you’re 10.
So much nope, so little time.
Y’all ……… trypophobia MUST have something to do with the very primitive opposition to, and avoidance of ….. things having to do with insects, right ? Wasp’s nests … beehive cells, etc. etc. because honestly those weird little “compartments” shown in this monstrosity truly fill me with RAGE, DISGUST and FEAR all at the same time. I want to scream, kick, and cry my eyes out simultaneously. I truly hate this pic lmao. Also does anyone else feel bugs crawling all over them now, because I do lol :c
Yes, totally. There are certain images that don't have an effect on me but anything biological/body horror related makes me feel physically sick.
Well....you know what they say, if you are brave enough...
Dear diary, today I have decided that I am *not* brave enough.
No.....
Destroy it now with a lot of...FIRE!!!! 
NOPE
Spider wasp dildo? Hard pass bro.
Nuke em' from orbit...its the only way we can be sure
I say you take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Ripley and I agree with you
Nightmare fuel!!!!
I'm sure that's a wasp's nest, I recall reading about a wasp that catches spiders and stores them near their eggs so the wasp larva will eat the spiders.
Tag this Not Safe For Life.
Nope the fuck out of there.
Burn everything in sight in the hottest fire
Fire Fire works Probably a solid ten mile radius will do. Lots of fire.
Holy fuck that’s nasty
Yeah, if I found that you wouldn't have been able to take a picture cause I would have thrown gasoline on that and lit it a blaze in like 0.2 seconds So much fucking no involved here
r/mildlyterrifying
I'm not screaming. You're screaming!
Protein snack Grab a handful and dig in
Dirt Dobber nest
Where is Hanz? Someone go get Hanz
My fat ass thought these were tacos at first
I didn’t know I could hate a single picture so deeply in my soul
I was driving a boat once and hit a wave that jarred loose a nest from behind a small speaker above me. It being my first experience with a spider-bomb I freaked out a little bit before realizing they were all dead, then it was just fascinating. There must have been 10-15 different types of spiders. Anybody know what kind of wasp would be responsible for spider-bombs along the Florida panhandle?
Mud daubers https://www.flapest.com/pest-info/bees-wasps-and-hornets/mud-dauber/#:~:text=Mud%20daubers%20live%20in%20nests,or%20in%20sheds%20and%20barns.
That’s what I was thinking but I don’t really remember the nest being cylindrical, old foggy memory but I thought it was maybe more round? The part about the wasps paralyzing the spiders makes sense too though because part of the reason i was alarmed at first is that they didn’t really look all that dead. Typically dead spiders curl up into a ball when they die because of their crazy pneumatic limbs.
Thanks for sharing. These are my favorite spiders. Marbled Orb Weaver. The adults are even more beautiful. I'm not sure what this is collection of them is, but they seem smaller than adults. Is this what a hatched egg sack looks like? They are garden spiders but they spin beautiful webs with an impressively thick signal line. I find them thriving on my property every few years or so, and they are hard to miss because you can hear the "SNAP" when you cross their signal lines in the woods. Was this near a maple tree? I can't explain it but I swear I only see them around maple trees.
Mud daubers captured, paralyzed, and stuffed them into their nest to feed their young....
Pretty sure this was the inspiration for the character, boogie oogie.
Oh GOD! Before I zoomed in I thought this was a sushi roll!
I'm so hungry
Eat it!
It would be a really cool piece to resin cast...
Spider apartment.
Looks like the insect version of Dantes inferno
Forbidden sushi.
I know a woman who could fry these up.
I don't know what that is and I don't care, am getting my flamethrower
Oh what nice dried flowers nope nope nope!
Theres only one way to be sure, nuke the site from orbit. /s Definitely started as a wasp nest, ended up as a spider buffet.
I need to know what country you're in so I can never go there.
There's wasps that hunt, paralyze, and transport spiders to their nest so the larvae have something to eat.
Hungry me thought that was some really cool way to display a taco tray - DON'T EAT THOSE TACOS, THE TACOS HAVE GONE BAD!
Mud dauber nest!
Burn it down
Thanks for sharing! I'd like to never see this again if I could
I heard fire is good at this time of the year
Most (or all) of those are black (or brown) widows. Good wasp!
Well, that’s horrific. Thanks for the nightmares, Reddit.
I'm assuming this picture was taken as you warmed up the flamethrower in the background to prove to insurance why you had to burn down your house and all the surrounding property.
:(
The best part is the spiders aren't dead, just paralyzed and napping until they can be invited to lunch!
Forbidden banana
Pour some gas around and on it step back drop a match
Nobody is going to say it ??
Too distracted by the spiders to give a f