Decapitated wasp still alive... 2 Hours Later!

[tkoizumi]

Believe it or not, sympathy are a product of humans which cannot be understood by any other species. Do not be slave to your emotion and protray your feeling towards other living beings other than human because it's a waste of time. Our emotion are not the apex of expressions and stop being arrogant about your conscienceness and automatically think other animal requires or undestand your emotion. Especially to those PETA supporters.

[IHateThatMonkey]

one time my older brother was in the patio and there was a wasp flying by. all of a sudden a lizard jumped out of nowhere and bit the wasp's leg off. long story short the lizard dissappeared to whaere it came from and the wasp was left staggering on the ground

[SuperSonicDonk3y]

that is epic!

[menja2000]

It would still sting you

[aLieNcrYse]

The brain is probably in the middle of the wasp, you just decapitated his eyes.

[ajq1982]

I like the bs how you said "the wasp wasn't feeling well so I chopped his head off" like you're a wasp doctor. Come on you were just bored and did it for fun haha

[zNEKOMARUz]

@ajq1982 or it was already dieing......just sayin.

[timothyleeh1]

fucking weird

[jinxmike]

WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I FLY AWAY

[afbofficial]

Wasps have brains all over their body. Its not really a brain, its kind of a mini-brain that it has thats not soley in its head. Therefore it can live for a time without a head.

[mechasaultfreak2]

um dude no insect feels pain. they have no nerves,really

[crucialgordon]

animal cruelty? fuck a wasp.

[lewiis2000]

It depends where u chop it's head off

[wcfcarolina13]

This isn't Fox News, it's obviously fake. Guy in video should also be arrested for animal cruelty and for being a socialist.

...nah I'm just trollin

But that's a truly weird thing there, gave me the jitters. Perhaps wasps have more advanced nervous systems than other creatures? I'd think insects that fly must be packed with energy, so maybe it's kind of like when an Ipod goes awry and gets stuck in reset mode until it runs out of battery completely.

[TheWTFsauce]

I think wasp are one of the insects with a brain in the back or something like a second brain arent they? i could be wrong

[goatmilk257]

yes but if they couldent feel pain can they fell any thing?

[CanalTal]

Insects don´t have a soul... They´re like robots, natural robots...

[scaboo338]

lol tha is to coooollll

[gring022gw]

dead space!!

[kunstsein]

As far as i remember from bio class Insects don't really have brains in the sense we or other animals have, but rather multiple neural knots distributed in all body segments(besides legs i guess). These animals are amazing little robots.

And i don't think Insects feel pain.

[YouthComplex]

As stated before- insects do not experience pain. They are invertebrates, and have no nonicepters, which are found only in living creatures with a spine. Also, due to wasps' tiny brains, most function is in basic reproduction, feeding, defence and regulation of the organs. Very very very very little brain power is actually donated to thought. Small bugs, like wasps, literally have the same brain power as a person in a vegetative state.

[TheSemperfiusmc]

WHY THE H^&$ DID YOU CUT ITS HEAD OFF SICKO!

[JooSooConfusoo]

yes.finally i found the reason why paris hilton is able to walk, shit, fuck and talk shit even without a brain.

[lamiac2411]

Alot of insects can survive for hours or even days with no head, they are different from us. There is your answer Lol

[pivoterdennisavj]

i found a wasp in my garage and it didnt feel very well so to put it out of its misery i chopped its head off LOL

[KhmaiSouljia93]

Lol most insects are still alive even after being beheaded like roaches can life 2 weeks after its head is but off so yeah can still produces its lil offspring o.o but yeah thats kinda cool

[knoxklay11]

for all u animal activists out there, put the wasp in your shoes. dont u think IT would have done the same thing if u were in his shoes? they wouldnt be really soft about phenomena like this. feelings can get in the way of science.

[tbone604604]

Last month I swatted a wasp, and it was decapitated. I had to rush out the door, and didn't have time to clean it up. Upon returning home 2 hrs later or so, I noticed the same thing. Body still moving, and the completely decapitated head was still moving. Very strange.

[jehosephat10]

I did this, this morning one I found in my window and I chopped him right in half!, and the whole of his stinger thing was still moving along with the other half of his body so I youtube'd it pretty strange. =D

[bonkerz619]

cool video

[matanuialive2010]

you probably missed some of the head meaning that it would still have consciousness

its like cutting the top of someones head of,they would still have consciousness

ether that or its brain is in its body

[NevadasDesertRebel]

wow just when i thought liberal pussies on youtube couldnt get any dumber. these fucks care about a stupid wasp too? fucking idiotic cunts. its DEAD! it doesnt feel any fucking pain ITS FUCKING DEAD!!!!!!!!

[hulagirl1997]

wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wft!!!

[kimie010]

cool :D

[borninthe90sdecade]

lol dude if you really wanted to put him out of his misery then why didnt you stomp on all of him instead of pulling out a knife and carefully slicing a way at that tiny head?

[ShenziSixaxis]

Being curious is human nature. You thought you did something right, and it made you research this. No shame in that, even if you did kill something (IMHO, it only matters if it is a human, dog, cat, an endangered species, or something like that).

[commandercobra]

drsta84 suck a fucking fat cock you idiot fat shit dick dog dick skin condom. i wanna fuck ur eyes with my feet. sex with you will be rad

[TheIcaJerry]

i hate wasps so try to put him in the microwave...

[genio0417]

its body is in shock.

[hamtalker2007]

i got one over here that does to same thing, i tryed to kill him he is still alive after one hour, his head is alive and his body is too cool , i witnessed the same thing

[gansterlicous]

i got over a mill ants in my house i cut like 5 of them head off with sword and they live for a day

[bazzaldine]

your all freeks for even taking intrest in this!!! sad people!!!!!

[jimmybilbo]

@bazzaldine You clicked the link too, sparky.

[thecheezybuddycp]

cool!

[TheGreatShelnutt]

it might just be the nerves makeing him grasp things, and makeing his wings move. it happens in alot of other insects too

[12firefcross]

try hitting it and poking it lot of time

[thebroadcaster6513]

most of the brain stem was still in tact which caused it to still live

[Zeventwo]

i dont care for it being tortured, because he's one stinging motherfucker

[eastcoasttigress]

@Zeventwo I hate wasps so i would of probably ripped the stinger out and tortured it more!

[666moviefreak]

weird

[BlackWolfXul666]

Thats fucking creepy, lol!

[megaspiceM]

fail ibringdoom...they clearly have brains. what do you think regulates "some organs"??

[drsta84]

if you were so concerned about it not feeling good, why in the hell did you leave it for hours suffering more than it probably was, after u saw it was not completely dead u decided to film it? and make a game out of it seeing how long it "lasts" ?? yea u did the wasp a favor lmao.....

next time step on the damn thing or squash it.

when i was a little kid i beaheaded a wasp.. after i saw it was still alive and that didnt do the job i stepped on him...... and i was a kid lol.

[TalonTrax]

Very good point drsta84. After I went back and saw that he was still alive, I researched how it was possible. I read that it is believed that they do not have 'nociceptors' pain sensors, therefore cannot feel pain. Also, they do not have a central nervous system and was simply functioning based on what was still in tact. Although I wouldn't do this again, I did find it scientifically fascinating after I understood that, as far as I could tell, it was not experiencing pain.

[MauXbeats]

Wait you know how like a chicken can live for several hours even when its head is chopped off? Well same logic applies to wasp. And considering on what you had said in the research, it is possible that without pain, a wasp can live and still repeat what he does every day. Thus concluding that it will still flap its wing as well as clinging onto your pencil. But yes, it was interesting yet freaky. Nice video. 5 stars.

[MJ4everTheKing]

he didnt have a brain so he cant know if he is hurting or not.

[ReignbowBite]

@drsta84 science can not be guided by morals :)

[V1RUL]

@drsta84 YOU GOT FUCKING OWNED FUCKER!

[drsta84]

@V1RUL Grow up, son.

[drsta84]

well the body still had a connection to the insects brain ,the base of the brainstem prob controls reflexes and motorskills.

i loved how you said the wasp was not feeling well. so u put him out of its misery, understandable. but if u were so concerend about

[flyby321]

That is to weird :) and interesting ..goes to show their instinct capabilities aren't only in their brain..as 'autocon2002' noted.

Search YT for 'Experiments in the Revival of Organisms' ..where they revive a dead dead dogs head ..a bit different but strange none the less ;)

[agosti]

Headless roaches are capable of living for weeks. That goes to show that humans are pussies that don't even last 10 secs beheaded XD

[caseystarling]

Haha!

[slipknotfanalex21]

ya but we have 1 thing bugs dont have.

BEER

[fireflower5]

Today I killed a wasp and its head came off and its head was still alive an hour later.

[haydenSTAYGOLD]

its the same w/ tht chicken tht got its head chopped off - just enough of the brain stem - the part right at the base, forget the scientific name for it, that it can still function. only tht part is needed for motor coordination.

[IBringDoom]

insects don't have a brain. they have a heart, some organs that are needed for eating, little holes all over their body that lead into a whole maze of little tunnels. the body can expand and retract to suck air into the tunnels or blow air out of them. and possibly a few organs like a stinger.

[MrJack141516]

I did this earlier, I cut a wasp into three pieces, the sting kept moving around and the other two thirds kept moving for three hours until I crushed them.

[darkdoom645]

its plaga from re4 and 5

[autocon2002]

All you did was remove its ability to eat, see, smell, etc. Insects have no centralized brain, rather they are governed by a series of nerve clusters called ganglia. Insects also have no capacity to feel pain. It would work against them being such efficient, yet short-lived and numerous (therefore expendable) to feel pain.

[Pheorach]

interesting how his wings keep going

[Zeroes123]

weres their head

[darkdoom645]

he chopped its head off

[bluemoonhaunts]

Not sure if i heard right but I heard that bugs have a brain in the torso area

[Roxasboy2009]

yes you actually did hear right i mean there is many of these blue bestles and they are small but i get a pointy stick and stab its torso and it died so then i cut its head off and it lived (you heard right)

[THETROOPER123456789]

dont burn it stab it with a pin millions of times

[anonymouschipmunk1]

you stupid, stupid thoughtless person.

Respect life. Do not inflict pain on any one or anything.

[THETROOPER123456789]

y not?!?

[thaishu]

put it out of its misery by slowly burning it bwahahahaha wee wee

[anonymouschipmunk1]

why??

i very much hope that your ip address is stored and you are on a list somewhere.

you are the sort of person i do not want living near me.

[Albrtd3]

Oversensitive peice of shit.

[ILOVERESISTANCE]

is truly impressive how nature can be strange! I do not understand how to make a move if the nerve endings are not related to the brain

[schutzstaffell]

Many insects have "brain" cells in their legs and other parts to "shorten" or "automate" several of their processes. This distributes weight more evenly (so that they are not head heavy for flight) and allows the insect additional survivability in case they have been attacked by a predator (etc). Say they lose a leg. The insect's other appendages adapt on the fly without a re-learning period. This get the insect back in the action faster after a debilitating incident.

[cnc108]

omg its a zombie ...its the end of the world run run away we need to get to cosco!!!???...plez???!!!

[warax112]

did you know you that a cockroach can live without its head? Finally he dies of starvation.

[blaze1372003]

Actually, they die of thirst.

[unauthorizedentry01]

Wow. That's like the one on here with the back end chopped off.

[PariahOfTheKOHLM]

Many insects have "brain" cells in their legs and other parts to "shorten" or "automate" several of their processes. This distributes weight more evenly (so that they are not head heavy for flight) and allows the insect additional survivability in case they have been attacked by a predator (etc). Say they lose a leg. The insect's other appendages adapt on the fly without a re-learning period. This get the insect back in the action faster after a debilitating incident.

[TheThroney]

@PariahOfTheKOHLM very interesting info.. thanks mang..

[29394419485298585495]

Omg wtf?? I'd really like to know why that's happening too. That's just...weird as hell 0_0

[MdFaizali]

shoulda just smashed the whole thing quickly.

[csal1d]

ay yo that shits crazy good vid

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

Wasps are a lot like WASPs, they can keep going without a brain and activate perfectly in society! Amazing isn't it!

[TARDSALE]

hahaha i hate when people cry over fucking animals

[ZrazorRozenstrauch]

Insects don't feel pain. People complaining about cruelty are stupid as hell.

[opiekat138]

insects feel pain you retard.

[ZrazorRozenstrauch]

No, they actually don't.

Pain, as humans experience is, is the result of stimulation of special nerves in our bodies called "nociceptors." WIthout those cells, we simply wouldn't experience physical pain. Insects and other arthropods don't have nociceptors. Maybe instead if you spent less time obsessing over musically-irrelevant metal bands or pretending that the color of your skin is something to be proud of, and actually bothered to crack open a book, you would know this.

[opiekat138]

you dont know shit if you think metal is musicially irrelivant. classical music is the only music that can match the talent of most death metal bands. and culture is mostly race, i dont see many blacks and asians practicing norse paganism so if the aryan race dies because of race mixing, then there goes the culture of europe too. 1488

[ZrazorRozenstrauch]

Lulz. Not one peep about nociceptors or arthropod neurology, so I take it you concede my point on insects feeling pain.

As far as the talent required to match death metal goes, I'm in both a death metal band AND a punk rock band and one is only slightly harder than the other. Seriously, any idiot can tune down to drop-C and slam away.

As for the race issue, you can leave the "I'm a white nationalist, not racist" shit at the door because I know what 1488 stands for, ya fuckin' Nazi.

[ZrazorRozenstrauch]

Additionally, Nordic Paganism is hardly an example of "superior aryan culture." It's a bunch of ancient horse-shit on the same level as Christianity or Greek mythology. I'd say the blacks and Asians are probably smarter by not believing that we're the descendants of tree people created by Odin. Get with the times and quit pretending you're a Viking or whatever.

[opiekat138]

you dont just slam away unless your playing slam death metal. slam death metal is pretty easy. i do beleive in helping the white race thrive, and that will help european paganism thirve as well. i have nothing agaist any other races exept maybe redneck whites.

[ZrazorRozenstrauch]

Okay, do you know even know what 1488 means?

[TristanIAM]

He doesn't.

[ZxArkillionxZ]

Epic, you totally owned that guy using your wit/logic.

[thingy186]

Insects are so weird like that.

[nellysdawn]

DUDE KILL THE POOR BUG, HOW CRUEL

[luckey4568]

Well this can happen becuase if you chop off a bugs head they keep an internal organ in their neck that runs down the spine called the yuteabula wich can keep him moving but when you chopped off the head the nerves were crushed so thats why the wings are moving repeatedly and he should live for another day or so if hes lucky.

[supercell1995]

in my opinion i think its not just the brains of certain insects that control their whole body like humans. there has got to be more than one muscle that sends fellings and movement to have them live longer without their head. by the way, do you know how long a human can last wwithout their head? i heardd reports of people moving their body within 5 seconds after decaptation.

[29394419485298585495]

Wow really? That's interesting and awesome lol

[lazyj432]

lolol omg i even squashed his head 2 make sure his head didnt keep on living funnny shit nice vid

[FirestormMk3]

It's not the base of the brain like with the famous chicken, like with a cockroach the brain is actually in the body and not the head. It will survive until it starves, pretty terrible death.

[ShadowVsScientology]

That's a big fucking wasp! I have NEVER seen one that big...

KILL 'EM ALL, LET GOD SORT 'EM OUT!!

[supercell1995]

i have had a couple of wasps that were at least twice the size of that over the summer.

i never liked wasps either, i got stung by one when i was at home playing games, when all of a sudden one landed right on my shoulder and stung me. i get the chills each time i see one.

[jamesgn20]

You probably chopped most of his head, but left the base of his brain. A similar thing happens to chickens with their heads chopped off.

[watchmyshoes22]

I like chicken

[Karstonie]

will it be the same with a human xD?

[luckyguy2000]

its incredible. relax i dont think wasps actually have conscience and can suffer.

and...

is it just me or is this scary shit?!

[PumaAttack]

definitley possesed by satan

[rapazn]

Why did you chop his head off ? feeling comfortable doing that shit ?

[luckyguy2000]

go hug a tree

[tearo]

LOL at the hugging a tree comment..I totally agree with you.

[kikoitsme]

ha tree hugging

[abcadiffle]

i second your comment

[TheHashbrownHustler]

He sais in the video, pay attention.

[skipplet]

Cry us a fuckin river.

[JaMsTe1995]

ZOMBIE WASP!!!

[KSpotes]

Earth's future energy source:

Decapitated wasps

[EsperChacur]

really amazing =D

[juanclos193]

cool.i hope you weren't near a whole lot of those while chopping its head off or those things would attack you!!!

[eatbeavers]

amasing creaturs i think

[washad2]

this is what you do all day ??????

[juanclos193]

its an experiment......

[Rokhan1234]

Experiment on yourself.

[johnnyjohn2005]

Thank you for sharing possibly the most interesting video on youtube! how weird was that? maybe its brain is somewhere else?

[iBahe]

Wiki:

Like _all insects_, the cockroach nervous system is decentralized[...]. A decapitated cockroach can still walk and show responses to stimulation of its legs, as can a spinal-transected cat on a treadmill. However, a cockroach can survive complete decapitation for up to several weeks before dying of starvation or dehydration.

I think this is the right answer on this phenomenon!

You learn something new everyday! Incidentally, I was searching for this likewise brutal WASP injection knife...!

[dizzy87ninja]

damn...me too!

[c4skate]

haha i was was looking for the knife also but this is crazy

[lulik9]

eww

[Java1pd]

yeah...i know from personal experience that dead wasps can sting. ouch. anywho, great vid, very interesting.

[Mauxiepoo]

cockroaches live without a head for 20-30 DAYS!!!!

[kittymunch22]

AND?!

[bobotech]

Awesome! Very interesting video.

[BankersAreAssassins]

awesome design; imagine having your hands on the original manuals that spec this creature; from the end design, the reproduction, the senses, the flight routines, the weapons; pretty sick! the team behind this, geniuses... and freaks; could not make the wasp more annoying

[gandatube]

could this be that wasps have a thing called encefalothorax?

the brain is in the torso and not in the "head". there you only find the mouth and eyes...

i think...

[TheGlarm]

Yes, the head has...something...that's, um, less important. It's like having your hand cut off, you still live, you're just slightly impaired. So if people had their brain where the heart is and their heart...in between their lungs or something, and your head was cut off, then you would still live, just without sight, smell, or taste, and you'd eventually starve from an inability to feed yourself. So i guess if you stuck food down the insects throat it would continue living.

[kleppyknox]

i know other animals such as chickens can still function with their heads cut off because the part of their brain that controls their legs and some sensory is located at the base of their brain or at the top of their spine. they really die from blood loss and asphyxiation. wasps? not sure.

[nerdling301]

ladies and gentlemen we have our next serial killer

[clockworkjames]

Wasp was just getting high with some friends then flew home a little ditzy and you killed him.

But I think he is just pretending and he really still has a head.

[Carnatium]

It's SHE. :P

[djdogjuam]

The reason it still lives is bcos different animals brains need different amounts of oxygen. Humans apparently die like 4 seconds after the head is lopped off, and apparently wasps go for 2 hours. rattlesnake heads live for either 2 hours or 24 hours and can still bite u, im sure a few of u have heard that. hope this helps. prob jus repeated what sum1 else has already sed........oh well!

[darkgear6]

u squished the head? Rofl

[ucanbetouched]

you say it wasnt feeling good so you cut its head off?

even without a head, it seems to be just as lively as any other wasp..

so i duno if you're lieing and u just did it for fun or what

[ophello]

brain stem is still active, thats why it still flaps, and responds. The simpler the creature, the more functions are controlled at a basic level. the only thing this bug doesnt have is eyesight and the ability to navigate.

[delldell21]

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

[Duphe]

interesting. maybe you can post another vid when you find your mom not feeling very well lying on the floor in your living room?

[TalonTrax]

I don't have any of my mom, but I do have some photos of me when I collapsed in the CNN lobby right before I went to the hospital.

[heatgap]

agreed that this is a cool video, but lets remember that insects aren't mammals. like posted above they don't have the same type of brain anatomy that mammals typically have. they're brains surface area starts from the hard and ends mid thorax. so its safe to say that just because you cut the wasp's head off you didn't cut it's brain off..not completely.

[DiscoRage]

When I was about 10, I swatted at a fly that was hanging out on our bay window. I somehow managed to swat its head and completely miss its body. It was still alive for a while before we put it out of its misery. Kept my cousin and I amused for the afternoon.

[sterlingom]

I've read about this a few times before, this kind of thing can happen in all kinds of animals aparently. If you cut off their head their brain stem and spinal cord can keep normal body function. I had also seen (I think it was in the guinness book of world records) where a guy cut the head off of one of his chickens and its body kept living for like two months, i think. He said that he fed it through a funnel.

[TalonTrax]

As I understood the story, while trying to kill the chicken, his aim was not perfect and the brain stem (which contains most of the autonomic functions) was kept in tact and the animal ended up living for 18 months by being fed through his esophagus.

[jaxford25]

great video. its natural to kill something that has potential to cause us pain. we're afraid of it, of foresight and prediction.

still, its only amazing because we know what happens when a humans head is cut off. the wasps basal ganglia are not concentrated like ours in our brain and spinal cord. plus they have an open circulation system, ours is closed. meaning energy is still being produced by passive diffusion and circulation of substrates is facilitated by locomotion.

[p90smg]

nice little speech jaxford25

[TalonTrax]

I wasn't killing it because I was afraid of it. I saw it on the floor in my garage spinning around aimlessly and I chopped off his head to put him out of the misery he appeared to be in. It only turned into a science experiment after I went back an hour and a half later to discover the body still alive.

[jaxford25]

oh. next time you'll know to crush the whole body. i used to do this to watch what happens. sadistic little curious devil i was. little i knew that insects have no nociception

[zhayeFF]

they have 2 brains actualy .

one is to beable to see and interact with other objects as well as eat .

the other brain is a secondary funtion for interacting again and it's surrounding but not being able to see so it's depenant on the first brain .

mostly it's still alive just it's going to starve to death and can't see . still freaky :3

[elvis839]

like a chicken

[yt2vinay]

It might have multiple brains, or its brain might be running along its body, like our spinal cord.

[hartage]

they have a back-up battery in there butts......ok i dont know. cool vid tho.

[Geekbean]

That's nuts. I've got no idea how that works. I'd like to say, "Oh it's just the nerves doing their thing." but... it grabbed the pencil. What happened after 2 hours? Like, how long did it live for all up?