This is the first in a new series profiling the fascinating, often irreverent, and sometimes dirty subcommunities of social news site Reddit.
Picture this:
It’s Fourth of July. You’re at a picnic with your family when suddenly a wild tarantula leaps out of hiding, ready to take you out, along with everyone you love.
You’ve studied arachnology your whole life (who hasn’t?), but those damned textbooks didn’t teach you how to fight off a wild tarantula. (At least some tarantulas are vicious.)
If only the beast had some kind of other, giant bug enemy — a Godzilla to the tarantula’s King Ghidorah.
So what do you do?
Well, right now, nothing. You’re toast. However, if you’d have thought ahead before your outdoors excursion, you might have checked social news site Reddit’s Bug Wars subforum.
There, redditors post videos of bugs battling to the death.
These can be all out wars between rival nests or colonies, pitched gladitorial bloodlettings, or random, violent encounters between different species.
There’s only one rule on the forum: Don’t post videos of mammals.
Unless that mammal happens to be fighting a bug. Then it’s OK.
If you had been reading this subforum, you would have known that a hornet can beat the crap out of a tarantula. And so you probably should have brought some in your fanny pack.
Here are the top six bug wars videos, collected entirely for educational purposes in the event of an attack:
1. Tarantula vs. Hornet
2. Scorpion vs. Beetle
3. 30 Hornets vs. 30,000 Bees
4. Japanese Giant Hornets vs. Yellow Hornets
5. Goliath Tarantula vs Snake
6. Camel Spider vs. Camel Spider
