(birds chirping)
- [Old British Guy] Here we are,
in a standard suburban backyard.
Leaves bristle in the windy wind.
A tiny dragonfly-ish thing
is just kind of here as well.
And over on the table,
we see a small microscope peering down
at a tiny microscopic specimen.
- [Wasp] Where in God's name am I?
How did I get into this thing, huh?
- [Old British Guy] Here
we have what appears to be
a small insect.
- [Wasp] Hello everyone!
- [Old British Guy] Entrapped
in a tiny plastic viewing cube
for our viewing pleasure.
- [Wasp] Can anybody get
me out of this thing?
- [Old British Guy] One can
only imagine the thoughts
racing in this tiny little insect's mind.
- [Wasp] Honestly like, I
just wanna get outta here,
that's all I want.
- [Old British Guy] Scientists are baffled
by this inspect specimen.
- [Wasp] I'm a spider wasp.
I paralyze spiders and then
I feed them to my babies.
- [Old British Guy] We will never know
what kind of insect this thing is.
- [Wasp] I am a spider wasp.
- [Old British Guy] What
secrets do you hold?
- [Wasp] It's all online.
- [Old British Guy] We don't know.
- [Wasp] It's in a lot of books, dude.
- [Old British Guy] We just
have no idea what this is.
- [Wasp] I am telling you right now, dude!
- [Old British Guy] An
entomological mystery
that will forever remain unsolved.
- [Wasp] Oh, dude, finally!
- [Old British Guy] A young mystery in-
- [Wasp] Again, I'm a spider wasp.
- [Old British Guy]
Crawls away to live again.
- [Wasp] Yeah, see ya
later, Old British Dude.
I gotta go paralyze some spiders.
- [Old British Guy]
And so ends our journey
in a small suburban backyard.
We'll see you next time
on Wild Thing Wednesday.
(quack)
- Wild Thing Wednesday!
Yah!
All right, what up dudes?
So, spider wasps.
I found this little guy at the porch
kinda like right outside
where I do a lot of work
in this tiny little studio right here.
When I originally found him,
I thought it was an ant
'cause there are certain kinds of ants
that can fly and have wings.
But, here is a spider wasp.
Let's see if you can spot the
main differences between them.
I'll give you five seconds.
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Couple key things are the antennae.
Ant antennae have these elbows in 'em,
and the spider wasp has
very smooth antennae.
Also the eyes on ants are very tiny,
but the eyes on the
spider wasp, much bigger.
And finally, if you look in
between the last two segments
of an ant, usually there
are kind of little bumps,
these are called nodes.
There's either one or two of 'em here.
And on the spider wasp there are none.
So those are kind of
three key characteristics
that let me know that this wasn't an ant.
Ta-da!
All right, so that's this
week's Wild Thing Wednesday.
Last week, I asked you guys what animal
you wanted to see in a video
and the one that got the most votes
were insects, so that's why
you're watching this today.
But I figure we can do it again,
so vote in the comments if
you wanna see next week's
Wild Thing Wednesday
to be about an insect,
a bird, or a surprise animal.
If you vote surprise animal,
it'll be like a reptile or
an amphibian or a mammal.
So like a turtle, a snake,
or a vole, or a possum
or something like that.
Those are a little bit harder to find
so I'm just gonna kinda group
them all in one category.
So what would you guys like to see
in the next Wild Thing Wednesday video?
Vote insect, bird, or
surprise in the comments below
and you'll see the one with
the most votes next week.
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catch you guys in the next one.
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