Ants Eat Caterpillar

Ants eat a caterpillar beside the pool.
Filmed using HDR-SR11

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Ants
• Eat
• Caterpillar

[derwos]

there's a type of caterpillar that releases a pheromone that makes ants think the caterpillar is one of their larvae so they carry it into their nest and then the caterpillar eats the ants' eggs.

[matoisy]

@plasticiconoclastic the wasp is called Ichneumonoidea

[Corey6496]

They must think it tastes good.

[klaohandsome]

disgusting



[derwos]

@plasticiconoclastic wow..i'm not sure if you're joking, but if you're not, that's...that's...FRIGGIN AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[myspacetuner]

@stickmanpwner64

LOL

[stickmanpwner64]

One time a dropped a catapillar be side an ant colony and then they pulled into there hole alive it was funny

[plasticiconoclastic]

@derwos

There's a kind of wasp that actually hunts a variety of caterpillar that uses pheromones to mislead the ants into nurturing it. The wasp actually enters the colony, frenzies the ants with a chemical of its own, and then gets a hold of that caterpillar where it then lays an egg inside of it. I believe the egg is lain during the caterpillar's pupae stage, but I could be mistaken. In any event, the deceptive wasp uses the deceptive moth's caterpillar larvae to perpetuate its own species.

[theotherther1]

Ants will pwn a caterpillar every time.

When I was about 13 I dropped some caterpillars onto a hill of red ants. The little fuckers actually wrestled the caterpillars-which were five times their size-to death.

[bradthepure]

Eww LOL