Shadowing Practice: 1,000 Flies vs. Venus Fly Trap - Learn English Speaking with Video
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This is 50 Venus fly trap plants,
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and in this video, I'm gonna put 1,000 flies in the same container as them.
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Will the sheer number of flies trick the traps causing them to close,
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or are the flies just simply cooked?
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Yeah, I don't know, but that's why I bought this.
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This is 1,000 fly larvae.
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Yeah, might look extremely nasty,
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but over the next week,
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as long as I feed them food,
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they should all turn into flies so I can do this test.
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So while we wait for these guys to turn into flies,
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obviously I have all of these Venus fly traps.
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But I also have tons of other carnivorous plants that you may have never even seen before.
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Meaning I'm going to be able to do tons of different tests in this video.
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It's going to be super cool.
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And for test number one,
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I want to show you guys the smallest Venus fly traps.
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Now I know it may sound stupid,
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but I promise you how they work and catch insects is actually really insane.
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Let me show you how they work.
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And yeah, it's not a joke how small these things are,
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because when compared to normal Venus fly traps,
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the jaws are about 10 times smaller.
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In fact, they're kind of cute to be honest.
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But since these are minuscule,
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the normal prey I feed in my videos is not going to cut it.
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Yeah, sorry cricket, you get to live another day.
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That's why instead, I got literally the smallest thing available.
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These are flightless fruit flies,
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which if you've seen my channel before,
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you know they're pretty much the most useless animal.
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Because seriously, bro, how are you a fly that doesn't have the ability to fly?
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That doesn't make any sense.
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But anyways, I put the smallest Venus fly traps in the testing enclosure,
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then I put one of these flies inside to see if he'd get caught.
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Start the timer.
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Now this fly didn't waste any time,
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because it immediately walked straight up to one of the Venus fly trap pots,
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and then started to walk all over the tops of the jaws.
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Absolutely risking his life.
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You may already know this,
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but normal Venus fly traps work by having these super tiny trigger hairs inside of them,
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that when a bug or something touches them, it snaps shut.
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But these traps are obviously the smallest in the world.
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Because of that, they have extremely small trigger hairs.
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And I'm talking so small that if I zoom in like 100x on this footage,
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they're so thin, my camera can't even pick them up.
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And I guess the trigger hairs were quite literally so thin
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that every time this flightless fruit fly walked inside the jaw of a trap,
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the jaw didn't close at all,
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and the fly was able to just walk out.
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I mean, it kind of makes sense.
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These flightless fruit flies weigh about 0.0003 grams.
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So yeah, I guess the traps quite literally can't even be triggered by how light their weight is.
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Yeah, clearly the fruit flies aren't gonna work.
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So instead, I got the world's smallest cricket instead to test.
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Let's see if this works any better.
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And oh boy, let me just tell you,
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things were a lot more interesting this time around.
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Because once again, the cricket walked straight up to one of the trap pots
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and started climbing all over the tops once again.
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But this time, quite literally within 30 seconds,
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the cricket happened to put his face up to the lip of one of the Venus fly traps.
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You may also already know this,
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but these plants produce a special kind of nectar around the lips of their jaws to lure insects in like this cricket.
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And you can see it was working pretty well because this cricket was just absolutely slurping this nectar up.
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But he was getting a bit too distracted because he then stepped into the trap,
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probably stepping on the micro trigger hairs,
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which then caused the jaws of it to close.
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But the cricket was too fast and he was barely able to make it out with his life.
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Dang, that was a close call,
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but you can see how quickly that can all happen.
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And yeah, don't worry guys,
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because there's only a few minutes later when the cricket did the same exact thing.
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He walked up to another jaw, walked straight into it.
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And yeah, this time the trap closed on him while he was starting to walk out,
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leaving half of his body now sticking out of the trap.
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Even though these are the smallest venus fly traps in the
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world they trap insects nearly just as well as the fully grown ones it's pretty interesting
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and yeah while i wait for those 1 000 flies to hatch
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so we can do the final test in the meantime i want to show you some other insane carnivorous plants
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that you may have never seen before with the second one
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being sundews yep everyone knows what venus fly traps are
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but not everyone knows what a sundew is
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but they're actually pretty cool let me show you what they do So obviously like fly traps,
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sundews are also a carnivorous plant.
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Except instead of having jaws,
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it has these long stems with these little red hairs on the top of them.
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But on each of these little red hairs is a special kind of sticky glue it produces.
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That will make it so when a fly or any other insect touches it,
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it gets permanently stuck because of how sticky it is.
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And when an insect gets stuck on here,
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the trap does something insane to be able to consume the insect.
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Which I'll show you very soon when it obviously traps an insect.
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So yeah, I got multiple of these sundew plants,
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and I even got this slightly different kind of sundew called an octopus plant.
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That will be cool to see if this can catch any insects as well.
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So let's get these in the testing chamber.
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And for this, I think I'll be using a cricket once again,
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because they're literally perfect.
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They can just climb up the side of the stems and yeah, just get stuck.
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This should be fun to watch.
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Let's put this dude inside.
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So yeah, once again, I just started with one of these guys.
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But if this guy gets caught fast,
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I'll be adding way more inside of here.
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Anyways, this cricket for the first minute kind of just wandered around the walls of the enclosure,
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but it wasn't long until he started heading towards the sundews.
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Now you see, the sticky glue that this plant produces is actually a type of nectar,
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which smells and tastes great to the insects.
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So yeah, just like how Venus flytraps lure insects in with their nectar,
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these traps do the same thing,
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because this cricket then decided to start climbing up the stem.
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The only thing is though,
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that he ended up stopping right before the sticky part,
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and that's actually because of his antenna.
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You see, crickets have these pretty long antennas that help them navigate and detect danger before running into it.
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And this guy's antenna actually ended up getting stuck in the sticky nectar part.
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But using its mouth, it was able to pull the antenna back
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and then started to lick all the nectar off of it.
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Yeah, and I'm not kidding.
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This cricket really just sat here for like 30 minutes,
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constantly licking his antenna, then putting it back into the sticky nectar,
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and then licking it back up.
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He was kind of outsmarting this carnivorous plant and just getting its nectar for free.
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So I'm not gonna lie.
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I just tried to push him towards it with my tweezers
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since he clearly wasn't gonna do it on his own And uh,
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yeah, he just kind of ended up falling off Yo, what the heck?
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I was just trying to record that cricket and I just realized there's a jumping spider in here Do you see that?
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It's on the little octopus plant Is it stuck?
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Yeah, this jumping spider just happened to wander into this enclosure
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by accident I guess he was just living somewhere in my house But since he was here,
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I figured i'd just watch him to see if he would get caught by the traps And pretty quickly,
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he started to climb the stems of the trap and got up to the sticky part.
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Um, but yeah, he was kind of too smart for this trap too,
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and turned around the second he realized it was sticky.
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But it was pretty cool to watch this guy just jump around the plants.
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However, he never really ended up getting trapped,
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and he ended up just climbing out of the enclosure.
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All right, guys, I'm not gonna lie,
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this cricket, I've been trying to record him getting eaten for like two hours now.
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And every time, right before going on the sticky part,
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he just stops and cleans his antenna.
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And yeah, he just turns around and never actually goes on the sticky part.
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He's too smart for this.
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So yeah, let me take this guy out.
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Instead, I actually just got out the flightless fruit flies again,
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because apparently this is actually Sundew's favorite insect.
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And yeah, I just dumped a few on the sand,
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and it wasn't long until some of them started to climb all over the stems
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and eventually started getting stuck all over the different sticky parts.
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I even went
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and just dumped a crazy amount of these flies all over
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the top of the sundew plants to show you guys exactly how cool sundews really are.
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Because obviously, now you can see the sticky parts of the plants are just completely covered in flightless fruit flies.
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Now, if you're wondering how this plant actually eats the flies,
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well, this footage shows how.
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As you can see, it uses each of its red hairs to basically curl around the prey.
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And once all of those curl around it,
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the stem itself also starts to curl around the prey.
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This will basically ensure the fly has a 0% chance of escaping while the plant releases basically an acid to consume it.
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Yeah, it's pretty brutal.
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So yeah, it's pretty cool to see these things work.
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All these flies are just going to turn into food for these plants very soon.
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All right, there's still one more major carnivorous plant type that I haven't shown yet.
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They're called pitcher plants.
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Yep, this plant can also eat insects.
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And actually how it does it is probably the most brutal out of all of them.
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Let me show you.
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Yep, like I said, these are called pitcher plants
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and similar to the last plant they have pretty long stems
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that go up
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but the difference is this time at the top there's this little trap door leaf thing
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that if you look is actually covering a hole
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that leads directly down to a pit of acid at the
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bottom of the stem yep these traps have this little hole
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here that's lined with a super slippery nectar on the inside
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so whenever an insect walks inside they'll slip into the acid at the bottom
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and yeah and what's really cool is if you actually look inside of this pitcher plant,
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since it's kind of small and shallow,
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you can actually see the pool of acid at the bottom.
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And it actually looks like there's a couple little flies and stuff in there,
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which it looks like it's actually already dissolving.
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So yeah, it'd be cool to see some crickets or something following these.
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Let's test it out.
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I didn't even need to use an enclosure this time because I knew this was going to be an extremely fast test.
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Because immediately after placing the cricket on this first pitcher plant,
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it started to climb along the sides of the red pitcher.
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As you can see, the inside of the plant is lined with these downward pointing hairs.
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This is to make it even more slippery and hard to escape.
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And yeah, it's kind of funny to see how fast this all happens,
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but the next time the cricket went to the opening of this plant,
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it straight up just slipped in right away.
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Nah, this dude had no clue this plant has evolved over
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millions of years to just be able to eat them this fast.
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Um, yeah, and as you can see on this footage that I recorded on my phone,
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he was now just sitting at the bottom of this pool of acid.
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Over the next few days,
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it'll dissolve him and turn him into nutrients for this plant to grow even stronger and larger.
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Nice.
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And yeah, that's really all there is to these pitcher plants.
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They're not really the most interesting thing ever,
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but I actually have some great news guys.
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Cause if you look in this container,
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you can see many of my flies are starting to hatch.
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And that means we can finally start doing some massive scale of Venus fly trap tests
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and eventually test as many flies as I can against all of my Venus fly traps to see who wins.
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Let's start very simple though with five Venus fly traps versus a single fly
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and let's see if this fly can get trapped in under a minute.
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Now I know you may be thinking,
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Brat Teregrine, I don't care about one fly, this is boring.
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Well don't worry because this literally only lasted like 20 seconds
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because immediately this fly started to crawl up the side of a pot And of course,
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he made his way immediately into a jaw,
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triggered one of the hairs,
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and it closed directly onto him.
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Yep, flies are basically the one thing Venus fly traps are the best at catching.
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I mean, they're called Venus fly traps for a reason.
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Anyways, I got the tank where the final test will be taking place, right here, obviously.
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And oh, on top, there is a box that I want to show you.
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There is something really cool in this box.
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It's these two little drawstring bags.
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As you can see, they say Terra Pals on them,
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and that's because Terra Pals is what I'm calling my brand new line of plushies.
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And in this first limited edition drop,
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we've released a super cool jumbo snake and a super cute little axolotl.
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And when you buy this,
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you don't only get the plushie from inside,
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but you also get this super cool golden trading card pack that obviously you can open.
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As you can see here,
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I got the Axolotl card and this one's actually one of 25.
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Yep, I've signed 25 of the Axolotl and Snake cards,
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meaning some of you will get some signed cards that I'll never be signing again.
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But either way, if you get a signed card or not,
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I know you guys are going to enjoy these new plushies.
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Anyways, let's get back to the final flytrap test.
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And I didn't waste any time.
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I just got out the flies that I've been hatching.
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And I put them straight into this enclosure so we could get this final test started.
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Quickly, I removed the lid and started the timer.
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Let the test begin.
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Now immediately a couple of the flies started to fly out of the container
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and others started to walk out of the sides.
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Now there was something weird though because while the container had a decent amount of movement in it,
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only like 10 of the flies were actually leaving the container over the 4 hour time lapse here.
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Yeah, basically all the flies were staying in there.
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So I decided to just take the paper towel out
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that they were all on and try to just shake off as many as I could onto the Venus fly traps.
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And obviously, this meant that a few of the flies were now scattered all over the traps,
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and were actually starting to get trapped.
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But most of them were just being super inactive,
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barely moving, and not flying.
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I guess because they were just newly hatched flies,
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and it takes a while for them to become normal.
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Yeah, I'm not gonna lie guys,
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this is kind of a fail.
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Basically, none of the flies are flying around,
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and I don't think I'm gonna be able to finish this.
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But don't worry, because my YouTube friend Fly Trap Films recorded a test with an insane amount of flies,
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a super similar to this and he wanted me to show you it
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and you can see he has a venus fly trap plant out
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and also a bunch of rotten meat in order to attract the flies yeah
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and it worked really well because instantly tons of flies started to gather around this plant
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and you guessed it started to get trapped i mean
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when you have this many flies it's a given
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that tons are just going to get trapped right away
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and what's so crazy is that sometimes
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so many would gather on some of the jaws before they
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close causing up to six flies to get trapped in the
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same jaw at the same time what flytrap films himself said
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that this is the most flies he's ever seen
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that get caught at once also some bonus footage for you
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guys hey you remember those pitcher plants from earlier flytrap films
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also did the same test with a massive pitcher plant to
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show you guys how effective these things are at catching flying insects
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and this plant literally just looks like a vacuum cleaner sucking up all the flies
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which in a way it kind of is
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because every time a flying insect flaps its wings above the
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opening in this plant it creates a weird kind of vacuum
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effect with the wind causing the bug to actually get pulled down into it
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and yep after not too much time this thing just caught
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so many flies it was literally just starting to overflow
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that is probably the craziest performance from a carnivorous plant
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that i have ever seen thank you flytrapfilms for letting me show you this footage.
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Make sure to check out more of his videos,
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guys, if you want to see more like this.
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His content is so cool.
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Anyways, hopefully you guys learned something new about carnivorous plants in this video.
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And remember, guys, check out the brand new Terra Green Limited plushies that just dropped.
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Remember, I only signed 25 of each of the limited edition trading cards,
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so make sure to get these soon if you want to get those.
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All this is available on TerraGreenStore.com.
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Seriously, guys, thank you for watching the videos.
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It means a lot, and have a good day.
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Goodbye.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “1,000 Flies vs. Venus Fly Trap”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: trap, plant, flies, fly, venus. Deze video bevat 296 zinnen en 3171 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 14:07. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 225 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| insect zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪn.sɛkt/ | insect, kerfdier |
| sticky bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈstɪki/ | kleverig, plakkerig |
| nectar zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈnɛk.təɹ/ | nectar, nektar |
| sundew zelfstandig naamwoord | zonnedauw | |
| carnivorous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kɑːˈnɪv.ə.ɹəs/ | carnivoor, vleesetend |
| antenna zelfstandig naamwoord | /ænˈtɛn.ə/ | voelspriet |
| jaw zelfstandig naamwoord | /d͡ʒɔː/ | kaak |
| flightless bijvoeglijk naamwoord | niet-vliegend | |
| container zelfstandig naamwoord | /kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/ | bak |
| hatch werkwoord | /hæt͡ʃ/ | uit het ei komen |
| axolotl zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæk.səˌlɑ.təl/ | axolotl |
| curl zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɜɹl/ | krul, lok |
| lick werkwoord | /lɪk/ | likken |
| prey zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹeɪ/ | prooi |
| dissolve werkwoord | /dɪˈzɑlv/ | ontbinden, oplossen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen |
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken |
| turn around werkwoord | omdraaien |
| back up werkwoord | teruggaan |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Let's see if this works any better.
- Let's put this dude inside.
- I'll be adding way more inside of here.
- Anyways, let's get back to the final flytrap test.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | I've been trying · I've been hatching |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | you've seen · haven't shown · has evolved |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be triggered · are called · is lined |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 59 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, they're, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: enclosure /ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/, plushy /ˈplʌʃi/, plushie /ˈplʌʃi/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, shallow /ˈʃæloʊ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: carnivorous /kɑːˈnɪv.ə.ɹəs/, axolotl /ˈæk.səˌlɑ.təl/, permanently /ˈpɜː.mə.nənt.li/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, dissolve /dɪˈzɑlv/, tweezers /ˈtwizəɹz/, inactive /ɪnˈæktɪv/, downward /ˈdaʊnwɚd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: antenna /ænˈtɛn.ə/, hatch /hæt͡ʃ/, axolotl /ˈæk.səˌlɑ.təl/, vacuum /ˈvæ.kjuːm/, scatter /ˈskætɚ/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: glue /ɡlu/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, gram /ˈɡɹæm/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als insect, sticky, nectar.
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