Watched a spider take down a wasp outside my window earlier, felt like Attenborough. Bushey, Hertfordshire.

Watched a spider take down a wasp outside my window earlier, felt like Attenborough. Bushey, Hertfordshire.
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  2. So I’m assuming the house is a smouldering pile of embers now, yes?

  3. David Attenborough saying fuck, I don’t know whether that would be disturbing or funny as hell

  4. There’s a moment where the wasp looks across at the camera, wonder what it was thinking other than “why is that mofo not helping me, I hope my children sting there arse tonight”

  7. And this is why spiders are absolute bros and deserve more respect 

  9. Equally that’s a False Widow and also needs to be killed with fire lol. I’d rather have wasps than those little fuckers.

  10. I gasped when you opened the window and put your arm out. Brave.

  13. How does the spider kill the wasp? Does it just bite the shit out of the wasp?

  14. As others have pointed out that’s 100% a false widow spider. Little tip, I had a false widow attack a wasp on a Web outside my garage last year, whilst they were fighting I took the sensible approach and grabbed a lighter and a trusty can of Lynx Africa and did our ecosystem a favour by immolation.

  15. He’s a feisty little fella. Look at his fangs! Don’t worry he’s harmless enough. 🇦🇺 🥲

  16. I reckon spiders get really fucking annoyed about having to wrap shit up every time they wanna eat

  19. I’m terrified of spiders, but this was fascinating to watch. That spider tearing the wasp in half was brutal!

  20. One swipe with a slipper for a buy one get one free bonus lol.

  21. I got bitten by a false widow on the hand once, it was shit, hand swelled up huge, hot burning pain like I had dipped my hand in acid.

  22. I felt bad for the wasp and hoped its suffering would end faster. Nature is cruel and proof that any idea of a benevolent god existing is nonsense.

  23. You should have narrated all the way through – the bit you do is great! New career – insect battle man!

  25. This….this is why I like spiders. 😌 They can kill wasps in my home any day!

  33. You know if that fucker got loose it would chase you and sting you cos its a little flying spiteful fuck.

  34. I had a spider live on my window last summer, it was great to watch him do this thing.

    I had a interview one summer, my spider buddy was living outside my window and during this interview it decided to have a fight with a huge bloody wasp. At one point the interviewer asked me what was so interesting that it was distracting me from the conversation. I really sholud have been honest that the wasp v spider fight was far more interesting that answering technical questions to some HR dipshit reading a script.

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    I got through the interview round, the feedback included “easily distracted by something outside”.

  35. Wasps suuuuck but damn I don’t wish this on any creature even assholes like the wasp

  37. That looks like an extremely painful way to go. Mentally and physically

  38. I’m annoyed that I feel even the tiniest bit bad for that damn wasp.

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