This Canadian family found an old wasp nest in their garden and dissected it to get a rare look inside.

The clip, filmed on November 22, at their home in Montreal, shows YouTuber David Freiheit dissecting a wasp nest with his kids and discovering a cocoon inside.

As David cuts through the outside layers he unveils the inner honeycomb layers where the wasps would live and lay their eggs.

The nest looks like scraps of paper because the wasps gather fibres from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct nests made of grey or brown papery material.

"I don’t think anybody in the history of humankind has ever done this before," David can be heard saying in the video.

We found an old wasp nest in the garden. Took it home and cut it open. What was inside was awesome!