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This Leg is Tasty
Apparently insects and lower arthropods don't feel pain. "It's because they don't have a central nervous system", say the boffins. This wasp was trying to disprove the theory by chewing off its own leg and screaming in the process. It wasn't a pretty sight, I leave the rest of this gruesome scene for your imagination... Although wasps are fantastic predators, they aren't known for their reasoning power.
This is actually a shot that I took in May and rejected, but I haven't seen an insect in 3 days, apart from a massive bluebottle fly that keeps on dive bombing me while I'm on flickr. He thinks I'm insectist...
This Leg is Tasty
Apparently insects and lower arthropods don't feel pain. "It's because they don't have a central nervous system", say the boffins. This wasp was trying to disprove the theory by chewing off its own leg and screaming in the process. It wasn't a pretty sight, I leave the rest of this gruesome scene for your imagination... Although wasps are fantastic predators, they aren't known for their reasoning power.
This is actually a shot that I took in May and rejected, but I haven't seen an insect in 3 days, apart from a massive bluebottle fly that keeps on dive bombing me while I'm on flickr. He thinks I'm insectist...