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The Ten News, News For Curious Kids

Ten News EXTRA: Creepy Crawlies 🐜

The Ten News, News For Curious Kids

Small But Mighty Media

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, News

4.4 β€’ 702 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 6 March 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

🀣 It's Saturday, which means The Ten News is getting EXTRA! 🐞 Today we're learning all about bugs! πŸ§šβ€β™€οΈ We're joined by entomologist Dr. Jessica Ware to talk about working with bugs, and how finding new species of bugs is like collecting PokΓ©mon. 🐜 Then it's time for the creepy crawly Fact Attack! The ant edition. 🦟 Plus! the buzzing Trivia Question of the Day! πŸ“Έ Join us on Instagram πŸ“ Sign up for The Ten News-letter! 🐞 The fascinating world of bugs will have you buzzing with excitement ✍️ Find a copy of the transcript for today's episode here Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

0:07.0

I'm Bethany Van Delft, and this is no ordinary episode of the 10 News. No, it is not. This is The 10 News Gets Extra. Today's edition is all about bugs.

0:29.1

They're creepy, they're crawly, but they're pretty cool too.

0:33.4

So get ready to bug out, tenors.

0:35.9

It's a deep dive into insects with the 10 news.

0:43.9

Some people like bugs so much.

0:46.7

They make a whole career out of it.

0:48.8

Our correspondent, Anya Schultz, spoke to an expert who did exactly that.

0:54.4

It's time for...

0:56.0

That's a job?

1:01.6

Dr. Jessica Ware thinks about bugs all day long.

1:06.1

She's an entomologist, which means her job is to study insects.

1:10.9

Oh, gross.

1:12.5

Dr. Ware works as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

1:18.7

I talked to her to find out about what an entomologist does for their job.

1:24.1

What is a day in the life for your job? Normally, I'm a field biologist, so a day in the life could either mean going on a plane to travel to either the Arctic or the tropics to collect insects.

1:38.3

And on those types of days, when we're in the field, we get up very early.

1:42.3

You know, it's usually at sunrise or before, so that we can be in the field, we get up very early. You know, it's usually at sunrise or before,

1:45.6

that we can be in the field when the insects start moving around so that we can collect them.

1:49.8

And we're often out until very late because, of course, insects don't really have a bedtime.

1:55.4

So we often are out well into the night.

1:58.3

And on days when Dr. Ware isn't traveling the world looking at insects,

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