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procrastinatingBear
The wasps legit do this
maratheconover
so basically..that plant is defending itself. So in a way it has a mind of sorts. It can sense danger. Isnt that some form of sentience?
brendobaby
NATURE IS SO COOL
Schloobles
How nature do dat
BacktotheScience
BRUTAL!!! +1
OkayByeByebyebyebye
The annoyingly short gifs were totally saved by the interesting fact. +1 for lima bean brutality
TchallaVII
Another reason for me to fucking hate lima beans. God, do I hate them.
ImSoUnique
Calling in backup!
Scorpitickspiderobster
"Shit, guys, a caterpillar!" // (other limas) "Quick; make yourselves delicious!"
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
When sagebrush gets eaten it releases a gaseous hormone that gets picked up by tobacco plants, which can then prepare their defences.
SharkyMcSnarkface
Damn beedrills always screwing over my caterpies...
icantwaitforthepresent
This didn't have to be in .gif form but very cool none the less
Plastik
This devil plant calls in the hounds to murder baby butterflies
unresponsivenipples
THIS IS WHY "IT'S NOT NATURAL" ISN'T A GOOD ARGUMENT AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY. NATURE IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL OF WTF
qussow
Anyone else reminded of Horrifying Planet?
WitcherSchoolDropout
This still doesn't make me want to eat lima beans.
kimttar
Yes but if you do you will gain their power. When caterpillars are eating you, you will be able to release a wasp attracting fragrance.
nerdyvet
Humans: we aren't as special as we think we are.
nerdyvet
(clarification, it's not that we aren't special, but there's something special about most of nature's processes)
SingingMeAndCthulioDownByRlyehFhtagn
I coulda been a butterfly!
Ry1415
I saw this on Facebook earlier today!
Derrickjc
Watch out my fellow lima beans impending unavoidable death
tempoprofilo
Fuck lima beans.
Allhailstarlordourtruesavior
and some caterpillars have evolved to look like eggs have already been laid in them so the wasps overlook them
fakkingLEL
Damn nature. You scary!
azazn3969
Crazy how nature do that
GerPhi
Your lack of caps lock made me read that in a very calm tone
WeekendMashSomeTatoes
Well in #3 the wasp is having sexy time
fakkingLEL
You mean rapey time.
HellooooNurse81
skip to 2:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs
Dial7ToUndial
Sometimes I bet my wishes on another stranger, and you just granted it. I can't thank you enough, +1
BigLizardInYourBackyard
RulonianHarbinger
Take it away penny!
DavidKMagnus
That wasp-rape is horrific looking...
WoolyBullyDoesNotRhymeWithSully
And it's not even Wednesday
TemetNosce000
Wasp rape Wednesdays... Never gets old
WoolyBullyDoesNotRhymeWithSully
was referring to humpday (geico camel) but that's a helluva lot funnier
MrChiPigg
Caterpillar rape is real. No means no wasps!!!
microshaft
These caterpillars signed consent forms, it's all good bro.
SchwiftyGameOnPoint
Imagine, someone giving you a sandwich.When you eat it, he singles other guys who all signal a flying rapey monster who sneaks up behind you
HomelessToddler
So, being a hot girl who just ordered a sandwich at a Barnes and Noble with a Starbucks inside?
MrChiPigg
Now that's a terrifying thought.
SneakEFoxxe
It's more like you eat the guy, and with his last dying breath, he alerts his friends, who summon the rapeyflyingthing.
Millsslslsls
and it's more of a violent reverse c-section than anything sexual
ZachsAnomaiy
But is sex a reverse birth?
astrogeek
But does that happen fast enough to save the Lima beans?
pallentx
Losing a few leaves doesn't kill the lima plant, but this response keeps down the number of predators for the group and next generation.
SwissElectrician
its probably more about keeping the caterpillar-population in check, and not about catercide.
bfranks4life
Right?! I guarantee it doesn't, which raises the question how the fuck do plants know to do this if the ones that do it are devoured?
MetaphoricalFox
The caterpillar will not eat the first leave fast enough before the molecule is released.
bfranks4life
Yeah, but then he has to wait for the scent to diffuse, get the attention of one specific bug, then that bug has to not only lay an egg (1)
bfranks4life
In my excitement I referred to the plant as "he."
bfranks4life
(2) in the caterpillar, but that egg has to have an incubation period that isn't on the order of seconds, you know?
MetaphoricalFox
True. Now, Evlution and survival shows the strategy is not a bad one, so far. :)