Red ants in Ishikari —— Insect Atlas from Website
The fierce robber red ant is like the Amazonian who captured slaves (a nation in Greek mythology). It is not good at feeding children or finding food. It steals other people's children and makes them serve their own tribe. I thought of mel gibson's Revelation, a story about the slavery and struggle, escape and rebirth of primitive tribes in the Mexican rainforest. In the story, powerful tribes specialize in hunting weak tribes and making them slaves.
The author studies and describes the ability of red ants to find their way, such as sweeping with a broom, running water, covering with mint leaves, laying a paper carpet, or using yellow sand of different colors from the ground, which proves that red ants not only rely on their sense of smell, short-sighted vision and memory of places.
Cicada: (Homoptera Cicada) A guy who is more wronged than Dou E.
Cicada-insect atlas on the website
The fable of cicada made it famous and died happily. In winter, the enthusiastic singer shouted hungry to the neighbor ant who had nothing, and was ridiculed by two poems: "You are singing! This really makes me happy. Then, you can go dancing now. " In fact, the fable was denied. Ants are real robbers. In hot July, cicadas drilled a spring well in the bark. Ants are the most unscrupulous to snatch spring, but the singer spent five or six weeks in summer and had the happiest time. It also exhausted its life, and its body was dried, torn and dismembered by ants, which became a food reserve. Cicada larvae use water storage bags-urine bags to turn dry soil into mud and stick it together to build waiting rooms and weather stations. Four years of underground hard work, in exchange for a month of joy under the eyes of the public, this is cicada's life.
Small striped butterfly: (Lepidoptera butterfly)
Wedding feat, a newly hatched female butterfly, even if locked in a room, or even hidden in a box, far away from the fields, in a noisy city, the news will still spread to the insects in the Woods and grasslands. Male butterflies come from distant fields under the guidance of an incredible compass. They went straight to the box, listened to their ears and circled back and forth. This little striped butterfly is a rare species, which attracted more than 60 courtiers who didn't appear on weekdays on the day it hatched. However, due to negligence, the female striped butterfly became the dish of the little mantis, and the experiment was interrupted for three years. The author is regaining the cocoons of two small striped butterflies, the suffocating smell of lavender and the pungent stench of sulfide, and the mixed smell of gas, tobacco, perfume, oil and unpleasant chemicals still hasn't made them flock. The sense of smell is guiding the small striped butterfly and transmitting information to them from a distance. Male butterflies are controlled by their sense of smell and no longer consider the information provided by vision.
Fireflies: the Messenger of Romance in Summer Night
Digging a wall to borrow light, catching fireflies and reading at night are all stories of the enlightenment of children who learned the four books and five classics in ancient times. How fireflies shine, but they don't know. Even when I saw that the food of fireflies turned out to be snails, I was amazed. The predation mode of fireflies first anesthetizes snails, makes them unconscious, breaks down prey muscles and sucks snails like broth. The back and abdomen of fireflies are covered with a layer of white paint, which is composed of a particularly fine particle, which must be a luminescent substance. Female fireflies do not grow wings and always keep the simple shape of larvae. Male fireflies are fully developed, change shape and grow wings and COLEOPTERA. The bright lights of female fireflies are obviously a call to their partners, inviting male fireflies to mate.
Cricket: (Orthoptera) An elegant hermit
It doesn't feel sorry for itself. On the contrary, it is very satisfied with its residence and violin. He is a philosopher worthy of the name, seeing through all the glitz, staying away from the worldly noise of pleasure seekers and enjoying the benefits of simple seclusion.
Cricket miners scrape the soil with their front legs; Squeeze out a pebble with a pliers-like chin. I saw it trampling on the ground with its powerful hind legs with two rows of serrations; I also saw it go back the same way, harrow the ground, sweep out useless soil and pave a slope. This is the process of building a house.
The basic principle of cricket performance is the same as that of locust insects: serrated bow and diaphragm.
Ribbon web spider: weaver
Where slugs are alive and kicking, where butterflies hover lightly, where mosquitoes fly freely and where dragonflies dance, they will camp there. The only condition is that as long as there is a fulcrum for netting. Several equidistant straight lines radiate from a center. On the basis of this frame, a spider silk keeps circling around from the center and intersects with radiation to form a cross. At the lower part of the spider's web, an opaque broad band hangs down from the central point, which is the mark of the web woven by the ribbon-shaped circular spider. Bending the strong broadband is to make the spider web stronger.
Spiders are more talented in giving birth to children. The silk bag, or spider's nest, used by spiders to hold spider eggs is far superior to birds. It is shaped like an inverted balloon and the size of a pigeon eggs. The upper end of the silk bag is gradually closed into a pear shape, and the opening is even, and it is inlaid with crescent edges. The silk extends from the corner of each crescent and is fixed on the surrounding twigs. The rest of the silk bag is elegant and oval, hanging vertically between several stable silk threads. The top of the silk bag is sunken like a crater and covered with spider silk felt. The other part is a complete shell made of satin.
Another kind of silver spider will use silk to build an exquisite diving cover for itself in the water to store air. It's like an underwater cool restaurant.