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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?
Schloobles
How nature do dat
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.
BacktotheScience
BRUTAL!!! +1
icantwaitforthepresent
This didn't have to be in .gif form but very cool none the less
ImSoUnique
Calling in backup!
unresponsivenipples
THIS IS WHY "IT'S NOT NATURAL" ISN'T A GOOD ARGUMENT AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY. NATURE IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL OF WTF
OkayByeByebyebyebye
The annoyingly short gifs were totally saved by the interesting fact. +1 for lima bean brutality
bjaefdigselv
SharkyMcSnarkface
Damn beedrills always screwing over my caterpies...
procrastinatingBear
The wasps legit do this
qussow
Anyone else reminded of Horrifying Planet?
tempoprofilo
Fuck lima beans.
Scorpitickspiderobster
"Shit, guys, a caterpillar!" // (other limas) "Quick; make yourselves delicious!"
SingingMeAndCthulioDownByRlyehFhtagn
I coulda been a butterfly!
Derrickjc
Watch out my fellow lima beans impending unavoidable death
TchallaVII
Another reason for me to fucking hate lima beans. God, do I hate them.
Ry1415
I saw this on Facebook earlier today!
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)
Allhailstarlordourtruesavior
and some caterpillars have evolved to look like eggs have already been laid in them so the wasps overlook them
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
brendobaby
NATURE IS SO COOL
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
When sagebrush gets eaten it releases a gaseous hormone that gets picked up by tobacco plants, which can then prepare their defences.
Plastik
This devil plant calls in the hounds to murder baby butterflies
astrogeek
But does that happen fast enough to save the Lima beans?
SwissElectrician
its probably more about keeping the caterpillar-population in check, and not about catercide.
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.
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. :)
fakkingLEL
Damn nature. You scary!
WeekendMashSomeTatoes
Well in #3 the wasp is having sexy time
fakkingLEL
You mean rapey time.
BigLizardInYourBackyard
RulonianHarbinger
Take it away penny!
azazn3969
Crazy how nature do that
GerPhi
Your lack of caps lock made me read that in a very calm tone
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
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
MrChiPigg
Now that's a terrifying thought.
HomelessToddler
So, being a hot girl who just ordered a sandwich at a Barnes and Noble with a Starbucks inside?
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?