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A screencap of a video showing the backside of a green frog and a hornet inside a plastic box

Screenshot 2025-12-09 at 10.21.05 AM

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I Shall Never Mess Up Again

A female green and gold bell frog eating the leg and holding the leg of a male frog

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I’ve Never Messed Up So Bad

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I Messed Up Again

A Caravaggio-esque photo of a tree frog being stung inside the mouth by the two-pronged genital spines of a wasp. Ouch!

Low-Res_A tree frog (Dryophytes japonica) spitting out a male wasp (Anterhynchium gibbifrons) after being stung (by pseudo-stings) CREDIT Current Biology Sugiura

I Messed Up

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