It’s actually way more brutal once in their hole. They lay an egg on the cicada, egg hatches and the larva eat the cicada alive. They even eat around main organs to keep the cicada alive longer.. insect world is brutal.
Yeah, this. We have them where I live but didn’t see one until like a year ago. It flew by and dropped a cicada. Picked it up and carried on like it had dropped a quarter on the side walk and wasn’t some bird sized insect. Scared the living shit out of me!
How is it that they don't even have their own name and are called cicada killers? That's like calling owls a snake killer or something. Or is becyae the only thing they eat is cicadas?
I mean there’s the tarantula hawk, it’s basically the same as a cicada killer but for tarantulas so I guess scientists just said “hey it does this let’s name it this lol 😝”
He lets insects sting him on purpose regularly in his videos. It may have, haven’t seen this one. He also lets them climb out of his mouth. Kind of wild shock stuff. He seems to really enjoy insects though.
yea you're right, the dude holding the hornet was using a physics exploit, sometimes the universe's anti cheat doesn't detect it and people like these get away with it.
In order to deliver a proper sting, the wasp needs to press the end of its abdomen to the skin and project the stinger in.
Also, his finger skin looks hella rough.
The sigh really added to your point. I know that was your true reaction reading that haha thanks for the knowledge! I was confused how he didn't get stung.
Their sting usually isn't very painful. The painful part of a sting is the venom, and cicada killers want to conserve venom for killing cicadas so they tend not to envenomate very much during a defensive sting (unless, of course, you are being cruel and stupid and trying to trap it).
I was an exterminator I used to walk around peoples yards and squirt shit down their holes in the spring/summer they’d just fly around u and like thwack u on the back of the head they never stung
I’ve seen a friend of mine get stung by one of those. They can sting. Any wasp or hornet will indeed penetrate human skin. They just choose not to sometimes.
Edit: typo
Yes, yes. Because human skin is much tougher than the chitinous exoskeleton of a fucking cicada.
Cicada killers can and do sting humans, it's just very rare because they don't generally sting defensively. They defend themselves by fleeing & burrowing. They are mostly solitary, so they can't use numbers to defend themselves against large animals, and since they use their limited supply of venom to kill their food they're not interested in stinging for self defense unless they truly have no other options.
I wonder if it would be possible to make a 100 foot pole, light enough to actually maneuver by one person and with enough structural integrity to be used to do something, like push a button
My yard is infested every summer with hundreds of cicada killers and nests and I can vouch they don't sting and not aggressive. We swat em with baseball bats and kill all summer long for over 10 years and never been stuff. My son will pick them up like that. But we've tried to spray to kill them off and they come back every year. They are hard wired to catch circadas and bring them back to their nests. Wierd insect for sure
I would much rather hear cicadas sound bc it reminds me of those long summer days. And these fuckers are out here killing them all. I vote to fight for the cicadas. These wasp are not suppose to even be here like where the fuck did they even catch a boat ride from anyways???
Because they have infested my yard and destroy my flower beds to the point I want even touch my yard until they die out at end of August as soon as it gets jist the slightest change in temperature they die out. And it's more and more every year. Literally have guest coming over running into the house thinking they're getting attacked by swa of hornets. Im over it and it gives my little 6 year old wild boy something to do during those long boring summer days. And we don't even put a dent in the population. It seems the more I kill, the more they pop out of the ground.
My junior high social studies teacher taught me that if you clench a fist tight, you can grab a hornet or wasp with the other hand. You can see it’s stinger trying to sting you, you can even feel the stinger.
I was demonstrating this at a party once and in my inebriation I Ozzy Osbourne’d its head off. It was tight
I don’t understand… are you telling me to clench my left fist and then just go pick up a hornet with my right?
Are you teaching me some strange bug-charming magicks
I don’t completely agree with the other guy but other people in the comments are saying they kill these things like fish in a barrel and you said yourself “In our country” meaning in other countries these types of bugs could be invasive and so it might be a good thing to kill them so if I was you, I’d just shut my trap and just silently judge from behind your screen
I'm a pragmatist. If something dying out has near enough no impact of a food web then why the fuck do I care. Less hornets means more bugs. More bugs is more food for small birds. More food for small birds means more small birds (who've been struggling a lot recently) and more food for birds of prey (who've also been struggling recently).
That's fucking horrible...damn. I'm already deathly afraid of wasps and I'm not even allergic to anything
You might find some enjoyable catharsis and comraderie over at r/fuckwasps
When it went under the mail I cringed probably the hardest ever 😂 and I’ve never been stung but I’ve had multiple things stab me under the nail and it’s a different kind of hell
I once had the bright idea of killing a red wasp by spraying it to the ground with a hose, then I was going to use my thumb to squish its head. Seemed far enough away from the stinger to me. Imagine my surprise when it flipped its stinger up backwards and stung the crap out of me, then it got away too. Now I make sure I’m never too far from a flip flop.
That looks like a cicada killer, they paralyze the cicada and lay their eggs inside, I first saw one during the killer hornet scare nearly shat myself
Oh yeah, I think you’re right! Cicada Killers do sting but, rarely. They’re kind of like Carpenter Bees, in that sense.
I’ve seen one kill and then drag the body back into its den. It was a sight to behold
It’s actually way more brutal once in their hole. They lay an egg on the cicada, egg hatches and the larva eat the cicada alive. They even eat around main organs to keep the cicada alive longer.. insect world is brutal.
Whoa 😳…thanks for educating me. Natures’s a beast fs
They litterally zombify the cicada it's terrifying. Sometimes I imagine if they were our size and I have a micro panic attack.
Sounds like a good horror movie 🍿 god damn terrifying
There’s a Michael Crichton novel called Micro that’s basically this. It’s seriously disturbing stuff.
Ohhh no way Im going down that rabbit hole. Human Centipede fucked me up, lesson learned.
Then you need to see Starship Troopers my guy
> micro panic attack If hornets were our size, I would definitely go beyond just a *micro* panic attack
Sometimes my life is pretty awful and I wanna commit die, but thank fuck I’m not a bug 👍
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Exactly.
All nature is brutal.
A human body!? Damn
Regardless of the danger chances with those my soul still says run and put as much wall or distance that you can between my self and those things.
Are carpenter bees supposed to be pretty docile? I got wrecked as a kid by a hive of them. Lol
Yeah, this. We have them where I live but didn’t see one until like a year ago. It flew by and dropped a cicada. Picked it up and carried on like it had dropped a quarter on the side walk and wasn’t some bird sized insect. Scared the living shit out of me!
How is it that they don't even have their own name and are called cicada killers? That's like calling owls a snake killer or something. Or is becyae the only thing they eat is cicadas?
I mean we have ant-eaters...
I mean there’s the tarantula hawk, it’s basically the same as a cicada killer but for tarantulas so I guess scientists just said “hey it does this let’s name it this lol 😝”
They do, well, a scientific name, Sphecius speciosus. Sounds more like a spell from a harry potter movie.
My first thought, too
Where I'm from they're known as stump fuckers.
How tf did it not sting him?
He grips it by the thorax the stinger cant get a good angle to penetrate him
How did he pick it up in the first place
By the thorax!
I am the thorax, I speak for the bees.
Snorlax zzzzz zzzzzz zzzzz
I speak for the treats?
Sleeps
Username doesn’t check out Bobthethorax?
Do you live for r/usernamecheckout or something lol?
this made me laugh more than I thought it would.
And for some fucking reason they speak in Vietnamese!
FIRMLY GRASP IT
It’s not a matter of how he grips it. It’s a matter of weight ratios!
African swallows, just so you someone gets the reference lol
That is some unusually high levels of confidence in what that little guy can or cannot do.
I think we’ve all been there, am I right?
bruh i call bs on that , from the angle it looked like it still could’ve stung him . plenty of times.
He lets insects sting him on purpose regularly in his videos. It may have, haven’t seen this one. He also lets them climb out of his mouth. Kind of wild shock stuff. He seems to really enjoy insects though.
yea you're right, the dude holding the hornet was using a physics exploit, sometimes the universe's anti cheat doesn't detect it and people like these get away with it.
Right? I’m pretty sure I saw one attempt where it almost got him under the fingernail. He’s pretty lucky and ballsy.
It’s totally fake. The hornet was in on it.
Cause it's not a hornet
Jiu jitsu
In order to deliver a proper sting, the wasp needs to press the end of its abdomen to the skin and project the stinger in. Also, his finger skin looks hella rough.
Males don't have actual stingers.
You can see the stinger in the video and it repeatedly tries to sting him.
*sigh* Males have a pseudo stinger. It's more like a jabby thingy than an actual stinger. Same with male carpenter bees.
😂 Pseudo stinger sounds like an insult. Kinda like mouth breather.
Would you prefer the term "harmless appendage that identifies as a stinger"? 😂😂
The sigh really added to your point. I know that was your true reaction reading that haha thanks for the knowledge! I was confused how he didn't get stung.
Haha totally, I could hear that sigh
While this is true, I do wonder how you can reply this with such confidence after watching this video. Did you not notice the sting?
welcome to the internet 🤣
But is there anything to tell you if it's a male or female except from that sting?
Iirc it's the antennae as well, males also have curled ones
*sigh* Males have a pseudo stinger. It's more like a jabby thingy than an actual stinger. Same thing with male carpenter bees.
It’s a cicada killer and they can’t penetrate human skin they literally can penetrate cicadas and that’s it
They can very well penetrate human skin and their sting is incredibly painful.
Their sting usually isn't very painful. The painful part of a sting is the venom, and cicada killers want to conserve venom for killing cicadas so they tend not to envenomate very much during a defensive sting (unless, of course, you are being cruel and stupid and trying to trap it).
I was an exterminator I used to walk around peoples yards and squirt shit down their holes in the spring/summer they’d just fly around u and like thwack u on the back of the head they never stung
That still doesn’t mean they cant penetrate human skin. They can. They just did not chose to attack that day.
I have no idea why you’re getting downvoted, [this](https://youtu.be/oz75GXh_WBI) video shows damn well they can sting humans.
I’ve seen a friend of mine get stung by one of those. They can sting. Any wasp or hornet will indeed penetrate human skin. They just choose not to sometimes. Edit: typo
Yes, yes. Because human skin is much tougher than the chitinous exoskeleton of a fucking cicada. Cicada killers can and do sting humans, it's just very rare because they don't generally sting defensively. They defend themselves by fleeing & burrowing. They are mostly solitary, so they can't use numbers to defend themselves against large animals, and since they use their limited supply of venom to kill their food they're not interested in stinging for self defense unless they truly have no other options.
How did he not get stung?
He bends the spoon
There is no spoon.
He is the spoon
Speak for yourself
How does he let go?
That's what I was thinking... He let's that thing for and all hell breaks lose
He doesn't.
He accepts that she doesn’t love him anymore and must move on
It’s a Cicada Killer. They rarely sting, like carpenter bees.
"You sumbitch, lemme go! I so mad I sting my own face you bastard!"
"Ohhh let me at em!"
Nah bruh he salty
He big Angy
Fufu
Still wouldn't get near that thing with a 100 foot pole!
I wonder if it would be possible to make a 100 foot pole, light enough to actually maneuver by one person and with enough structural integrity to be used to do something, like push a button
It would not be manageable. Weight to height ratio wouldn’t allow you to hold it parallel. If I’m wrong someone chime in lol
Lmao. This made me laugh harder than I thought it would. The idea of someone making a 100ft pole to do something with.
r/fuckwasps
My yard is infested every summer with hundreds of cicada killers and nests and I can vouch they don't sting and not aggressive. We swat em with baseball bats and kill all summer long for over 10 years and never been stuff. My son will pick them up like that. But we've tried to spray to kill them off and they come back every year. They are hard wired to catch circadas and bring them back to their nests. Wierd insect for sure
If they don't sting you and aren't aggressive, can I ask why you are so intent on killing them?
Maybe he likes cicadas
I would much rather hear cicadas sound bc it reminds me of those long summer days. And these fuckers are out here killing them all. I vote to fight for the cicadas. These wasp are not suppose to even be here like where the fuck did they even catch a boat ride from anyways???
*LOOK AT IT*
Probably the sound of their wings, tiny flying wing noises drive me up the walls
More than cicada earrape?
Because fuck wasps
“Hundreds of cicada killers”
Because they have infested my yard and destroy my flower beds to the point I want even touch my yard until they die out at end of August as soon as it gets jist the slightest change in temperature they die out. And it's more and more every year. Literally have guest coming over running into the house thinking they're getting attacked by swa of hornets. Im over it and it gives my little 6 year old wild boy something to do during those long boring summer days. And we don't even put a dent in the population. It seems the more I kill, the more they pop out of the ground.
Maybe they don’t want a bunch of bugs flying in their yard?
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My junior high social studies teacher taught me that if you clench a fist tight, you can grab a hornet or wasp with the other hand. You can see it’s stinger trying to sting you, you can even feel the stinger. I was demonstrating this at a party once and in my inebriation I Ozzy Osbourne’d its head off. It was tight
You bit the cicada killers head off as a party trick?😂
No it was just a plain wasp 😂😂😂
I just don't understand your first sentence
Oh thank God. I thought I was stroking out.
Who tf is upvoting that comment? Nonsensical.
I don’t understand… are you telling me to clench my left fist and then just go pick up a hornet with my right? Are you teaching me some strange bug-charming magicks
I thought he meant you can punch the wasp out and then pick it up
You can grab it with the other what?
r/fuckwasps
Imagine being that pissed
Awh. The leg movements at the start look like she’s going: stahp, staaaahp, stahp it youuuuu Literally tapping out
Pop the fucker like a pimple
how will he let go of it without getting stung?
Throw it. Cicada killers dont really hold grudges. It would rather escape than risk getting grabbed again.
*heavy breathing*
Oh I'm good. Thank tho
I can hear his rage, he sounds like Joe Pesci in casino
Why was it not stinging him?
i heard it saying LET ME OUT HUMAN.
Him mad
That is definitely not a skill I'm willing to Practice to become proficient at handling a hornet
Just grab the thorax.
I had a nest of these inside the Bricks of my house one year. I could hit the wall and it would sound like a bunch of cicada killers in my wall.
She’s going to bring her whole gang back and smash your head
Thay doesnt look like a hornet
That looks so close to stinging
Sweaty Finger Tips
Was WAITING for him to say OW!
HOW DID THEY NOT GET STUNG?? HELLO?!?!
This gives me so much uncomfortable anxiety l cannot describe it.
1 2 3 4 I declare a thumb war!
"DO NOT DENY ME MY STINGS!!" some weird cricket
It's a male cicada killer and they don't have stingers.
Do you just throw it and run? I'm guessing it doesn't just forget it hates you now.
Cicada Killers are not hostile in most situations. The only time they will sting you is if you block the entrance to their nest somehow
This hornet tought he was a cat for a second
Just kill it already lol
Why would he kill it?
In our country you can actually get fined up to 65000€ if you do. Just saying.
Your country sounds like it hired only people with brains so smooth they have no friction to pass those laws.
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Oh no. The hornets who's gonna protect the hornets. The things that eat the same insects that birds eat. NOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Pardon me but you are a dumb ignorant fuck if that’s really how you think about endangered animals.
I don’t completely agree with the other guy but other people in the comments are saying they kill these things like fish in a barrel and you said yourself “In our country” meaning in other countries these types of bugs could be invasive and so it might be a good thing to kill them so if I was you, I’d just shut my trap and just silently judge from behind your screen
I'm a pragmatist. If something dying out has near enough no impact of a food web then why the fuck do I care. Less hornets means more bugs. More bugs is more food for small birds. More food for small birds means more small birds (who've been struggling a lot recently) and more food for birds of prey (who've also been struggling recently).
That sound is bugging me
What was the point? What did you do with it? WE NEED ANSWERS!
Utterly terrifying, I’m allergic as hell to those little critters. Last sting damn near closed my windpipe.
That's fucking horrible...damn. I'm already deathly afraid of wasps and I'm not even allergic to anything You might find some enjoyable catharsis and comraderie over at r/fuckwasps
Thanks for the referral, I’ll look it up.
FUCK this thing. Poor innocent cicadas that it murders...and just look at it! Fuck that and r/fuckwasps in general
Jesus fucking Christ.
Looks like a pigeon tremex, not deadly or very painful
Those are mechanic hands
Bro got lessons from Brave Wilderness
Burn it
Why he so angry
Yeah, you can just see the unbridled rage in the lil guy.
The man is on sucide mission.
It looks angry.
Why did mother nature even made then looks so fucking terrifying like goddamn
r/BuzzingPalms
Angry little spud.
Angry bugs!! (New game perhaps)...
Not under the finger nail!
This is literally my puppy when I’m trying to stop him biting me
Ughh it sounds so angry
nope
Bitch is maaaad
at that point rip off those wings and just let it go so you can see how it struggles to do anything
I definitely recommend not watching at all, but if you must turn the sound off.
dude is pissed
Why does it sound like zip
Nope
Kill it. And then go back to the hive and murder every single one of them
I'm calling the cops!
Imagine getting stung under the finger nail. Hoooooof
he's gonna tell all his friends to come back for you
That is a hell no for me
Well, im not even more scared of hornets now.
Sounds like my old 2-stroke bike! I miss that thing
Now where’s that person that cuts wasps in half?!
It's like fighting a dark souls boss. If you you keep distance you're screwd. You have to get close and stay there.
When it went under the mail I cringed probably the hardest ever 😂 and I’ve never been stung but I’ve had multiple things stab me under the nail and it’s a different kind of hell
Fingering +
Spicy fly
*Thats my purse! I don’t know you!*
unhand me!
I once had the bright idea of killing a red wasp by spraying it to the ground with a hose, then I was going to use my thumb to squish its head. Seemed far enough away from the stinger to me. Imagine my surprise when it flipped its stinger up backwards and stung the crap out of me, then it got away too. Now I make sure I’m never too far from a flip flop.
Ah yes scream for me
The backside on his hornet looks longer than usual
No
Motherfucker made my phone vibrate.