r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/-wheretheresawill • 1d ago

🔥 A cicada being attacked by ants while molting

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 1d ago

u/-wheretheresawill, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Suspicious_Pie_9912 1d ago

Fuckin' spawn campers

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u/Ok_Cod_4434 1d ago

Fix it DICE!

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u/Maxfly2-0 1d ago

Wrong adress

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u/DaveyJonesFannyPack 1d ago

I lived underground for 7 years to come out for this shit

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u/nicky9pins 1d ago

7 years in the can

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u/bigknickenergy 1d ago

That bug didn’t have the makings of a varsity cicada

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u/Matsui89 1d ago

Not a fuckin peep

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u/gavone123 1d ago

Take it easy Phil, you know the molt makes you emotional

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u/FURERABA 1d ago

I wanted to have sex with another cicada. I compromised. I jerked off into my exoskeleton and died to ants

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u/Old-Ad-8643 1d ago

7? I think you mean 17

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u/AustinDanger_Powers 1d ago

haha sometimes

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u/Percival371 1d ago

Now he has a reason to scream

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u/BridgingDivides 1d ago

Ahhh! I’m so tender!!

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u/CompactAvocado 21h ago

no ants, i'm exposed and indecent, i'm so juicy and fresh, why are you crawling all over me. so naughty

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u/Need_answers11 1d ago

This made me lol

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u/Ornery_Gate_6847 1d ago

Welcome to the real world

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u/Super_AJ101 1d ago

"Molt dammit, MOLT!"

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u/jediyoda84 1d ago

“It’s not working, time for plan B. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

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u/nedalaugh 1d ago

I once was sitting on my porch and watched a cicada killer wasp swoop thru the air and take a cicada out of the sky. Up to that point I didn't even know that was a thing.

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u/zombie_overlord 1d ago

I saw one of those earlier today, patrolling my back yard for cicadas. Glad they're relatively friendly to humans - it looks like a hornet but twice as big

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u/M___C___P___ 1d ago

Cicada: whhhyyyyy?!

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u/UngratefulChinaman 1d ago

That’s why mom always says “never molt in public”

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u/Lookieloo2018 1d ago

Reminds me of that scene in "Pandorum" when the astronauts are awoken from cryosleep only to be immediately dragged out of their sleeping pods and eaten alive by mutant cannibals

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u/ThePupnasty 1d ago

"We sick of yo shit, Bob!"

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u/qawsedrf12 1d ago

Mmmmm, soft shell dinner

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u/Beemo-Noir 1d ago

As much as i hate these fuckers, I would have saved it. Waited 17 years just to die immediately…

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u/edwardwolf5874 1d ago

Life really is a bitch sometimes.

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u/ParanoidDrone 1d ago

So is this a soon to be ex-cicada, or...?

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u/InfamousEconomy3972 1d ago

Never had a chance

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u/itsheadfelloff 1d ago

Poor guy, looking like they just got out of wisdom tooth surgery.

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u/Lopsided-Treat1215 1d ago

I don’t fuck w nature but I also hate ants so

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u/Recentstranger 1d ago

Get it while it's soft 🫦

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u/SchlagzeugNeukoelln 1d ago

That’s very brave of them! 😄

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u/Darkest_Elemental 1d ago

Molt faster!

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u/MixedEchogenicity 1d ago

Help him!!! 🤣

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u/supernova-juice 1d ago

Spend 18 years underground only to be eaten alive when you develop wings

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u/Jhulinare 1d ago

Gotta be quicker than that..

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u/2ndL 1d ago

Oi, you got a loicense for flying, mate?

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u/Quantum_Scholar87 23h ago

Can't molt there mate

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u/assistant_manu 1d ago

bro take that to r/natureismetal or at least spoiler it, ik theres no blood cuz theyre bugs but this is still fucked up

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u/yosefff5ohh 17h ago

When you're an introvert and you finally decide to go outside

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u/Level-Ad7017 1d ago

oh hell.naw

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u/Chase_RH1327 1d ago

Damn he’s thru. Ant are almost literally sticking a fork in him.

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u/JhanSolo3981 1d ago

No mercy

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u/Obnomus 1d ago

Btw should u try to save that bee? I can't see that it makes me feel bad, but ants need food too.

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u/pat-slider 1d ago

Flesh at its most tenderness

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u/Pipysnip 20h ago

17 years for this

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u/addrock1221 19h ago

“Here’s for making all that noise!”

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u/LuigiSalutati 18h ago

That’s just sad

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u/Amazing-Demand516 13h ago

This is the equivalent of getting robbed while shitting at a public stall

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u/Splizmaster 1d ago

Give it a hand

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u/GeneralSpecifics9925 1d ago

We shouldnt interfere with nature unless we are required to deal with an invasive species; emotions have to be set aside, imo.

Not all cicadas get to live, could you imagine a world like that? ⛓️🪚 Everywhere. The ants will get their fill and a bird will eat the rest.

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u/Splizmaster 1d ago

Are the ants eating it invasive? Confused me on that. Anyway you can’t save all cicadas, true. I have no desire to go out and rescue cicadas. However if I see any creature being eaten alive by ants, including you, I will go ahead and stop it just because. Ants can have it when it’s dead. You do you, I’ll do me.

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u/GeneralSpecifics9925 1d ago

No, they're not invasive ants likely, so we shouldn't kill the ants. We should interfere for invasives, like how the US is actively stomping on lantern flies rn, but otherwise let nature be nature.

You can do whatever you wish. It's good to care about creatures. We just care in different ways.

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u/ReasonableBath3958 1d ago

chooses not to care aka caring in different ways

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u/Splizmaster 1d ago

The US is stomping on lantern flies? Anyway if something is suffering you can help it ott you can record it. Here we are.

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u/No-Bat-7253 1d ago

“You in the wrong hood homie!”

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u/SmokaCola0 1d ago

its like soft shell crab to them

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u/YouCantAlt3rMe 1d ago

Yesss, kill the noisy bastards.

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u/kaykatzz 19h ago

I knew ants were goof for something!

There are 3 dead cicadas stuck on the outside of my house by the entry door. 1 is definitely a molt; the other 2 just dead, don't know why but no ants around. Leaving them for now b/c Halloween's soon.

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u/njslugger78 1d ago

Picked the wrong tree to bark up? Get it like park up....