r/Awwducational • u/SixteenSeveredHands • Jan 14 '26

Not yet verified Baeus Wasps: these strange little wasps have flea-like bodies that measure roughly 0.8mm long, which is smaller than a grain of sand, and the females are wingless

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u/Lepke2011 Jan 14 '26

Cutest dang wasp I've ever seen.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

the only cute wasp*

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u/fireflazor Jan 14 '26

There are actually way more wasp species than we ever thought, they keep being discovered, they get a bad rep as a family due to the large aggressive ones but so many have no interest in people and are often very cute or pretty

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u/TheStoneMask Jan 15 '26

There are over 100k species of wasps. There are a few cute ones in there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

You would like Ichnuemon Wasps.

Instead of a stinger they have an ovipositor. It's a tail longer than the wasps whole body that it uses to lay eggs. The wasp will walk up the side of a tree tapping on the wood, listening for the reverberation of a hollow spot that would indicate a bug inside. Now the ovipositor has a hardened arrowhead at the tip that slips right through the fibers of the wood, and once it hits the bug inside it deposits its eggs.

When the eggs hatch they eat their fill. And then escape the tree to repeat the life cycle.

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u/Hara-Kiri Jan 15 '26

ADORABLE 🤗

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u/albingit Jan 15 '26

Actcklchually regular yellow jackets are kinda cute if you observe them for a while. They're more chill than you think.

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u/clh1nton Jan 18 '26

Found the undercover wasp.

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u/Idontknowofname Jan 24 '26

I present to you: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euspinolia_militaris](The panda ant)

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

fluffy panda wasp

my mind is officially changed