Mother Nature is freaking weird.

This has nothing what so ever to do with Jiu-jitsu.  

Yesterday when I was walking out of my house, I noticed a big giant black fuzzy caterpillar on my door frame.  I pointed it out to the kids and went on my way.  I live in Florida.  Giant bugs are always somewhere. 

The next morning I noticed that the caterpillar was covered in white fuzz.  Upon further inspection, I noticed the white fuzz was tiny little wriggly maggoty looking things making tiny white cocoons.  After I vomited in my mouth a little, I took a picture.

And being that I like bugs, I tend not to kill them,, I just relocate them, but this one was clearly in the middle of something, so I left it there.

If you look toward the top or bottom to the left you can clearly see the little maggoty things.

I figured they were it's babies... after all lots of insects carry their babies around on their backs. 

Then I realized that caterpillars are larvae themselves so those couldn't possibly be its babies...

So, I went back out there and looked at it again and the caterpillar was leaving its disgusting maggoty cocoon behind.

So, I left the babies there in their nasty sack of maggoty fuzz.

And then I Googled that shit.

Now look at that first picture again, see that green drippy stuff.. that is blood.. Because a WASP laid its babies INSIDE the caterpillar AND THEY ATE THEIR WAY OUT.

Again, for clarity.  THE WASP LARVAE ATE THEIR WAY OUT OF THE CATERPILLAR, and then made their homes on it's back.  WTF wasp babies, WTF, as if your adult state isn't one of the most foul states of insect on the planet already.

Needless to say the nasty sack of wasp babies is gone.

Kinda cool though.

Oss!

A lovely side effect of training BJJ is that I've met a lot of wonderful Brazilian people.  Unfortunately for me though, I don't speak Portuguese. (Yet!)  Fortunately though, Google translator is free.  It's not totally accurate, but it can get me from 0% to about 99% in the understanding what the heck someone just said to me on Facebook department.

I've used Google translator for about a year to talk to someone over Facebook.  It has worked well enough most of the time.  Every now and then it will translate words out of order, and I sometimes worry that what I am responding with will also be out of order, but thus far, I've been able to communicate totally in Portuguese (Over text only... I can say about three words, none of which are usable in any conversation I'd have in front of my mother.)

For the first time last night, Google translator failed me.

"No definitions found"


Noooooo!


The word was 'oss'.


While Google translator may have failed me, Google did not.

I was able to research the meaning, and get what I believe was the intent of the comment.

"The definition of "OSS", also known as "ossu" ( it doesn't matter how you spell it in English), means Oshi Shinobu, which conveys the idea of "persevering when pushed", or in other words, never give up, have determination, grit and withstand the most arduous of training. Carrying on without giving up, under all kinds of pressure."


You can find a wee bit more information about the word here.


Anyway, I thought it was kind of awesome to portray so much with just a single word, and I wanted to share it... even though a lot of your probably already know.