A brief summary of each chapter of Insect Story

Small insects hide many secrets and skills. Let's learn about this small and complicated insect world through insects! The following is a summary of the contents of each chapter of "Insect Story" compiled by me, for your reference only. Welcome to reading.

A brief description of each chapter of entomology. Chapter one is about ancestors.

Everyone has his own unique personality. Sometimes, this character seems to be inherited from ancestors, but when you want to ask where this character comes from, it is very difficult.

When I was very young, I had a desire to get close to nature. If you think that I like to observe that the traits of plants and insects are inherited from ancestors, it is a big joke.

Because my ancestors were uneducated country people, the only thing they knew and cared about was their own cattle and sheep. Only one of my grandparents has read this book.

Chapter II Mysterious Pond

I never get bored when I stare at the pond. In this small green world, I don't know how many busy little lives will be busy all the time.

By the pond, piles of little black tadpoles can be seen chasing and playing everywhere; The red-bellied salamander also swings its wide tail like a rudder and moves slowly forward; In the reeds, we can also find groups of silkworm larvae, who hide their bodies in small sheaths made of dead branches-this small sheath is used to defend against natural enemies and all kinds of sudden disasters.

Chapter III Silkworm

I put some small aquatic animals in the pond. They are called stone silkworms. To be exact, they are the larvae of the stone silkworm moth, cleverly hidden in a small sheath made of dead branches.

Silkworms first grew in reeds in mire swamps. Many times it is attached to the broken branches of reeds and drifts in the water with reeds. That small sheath is its mobile home.

In fact, this kind of trailer can be regarded as a very delicate woven work of art, which is made by soaking the roots and skins of plants in water and falling off.

Chapter IV dung beetles

Six or seven thousand years ago, people first talked about dung beetles. Farmers in ancient Egypt, when irrigating their farmland in spring, often see a fat black insect passing by them, busy pushing a ball back. Of course, they were surprised to notice this grotesque rotating object, just like the farmers in Brovin today.

Once upon a time, Egyptians imagined that this sphere was a model of the earth, and the movement of dung beetles was consistent with the movement of planets in the sky. They think this beetle is sacred, because it has so much astronomical knowledge, so they call it "sacred beetle".

At the same time, they think that the ball that the beetle rolls on the ground contains eggs, from which the little beetle comes out. But in fact, this is just its food storage room. There are no eggs in it.

The fifth chapter cicada

The worst criminals are ants. I have seen them bite the tip of a cicada's leg, drag its wings and climb on its back. Even once, a fierce and strong disciple grabbed the cicada straw in front of me and tried to tear it off.

In the end, there were more and more troubles, but the singer had to put aside his well and escape quietly. So the ants achieved their goal and occupied the well. But the well soon dried up and the pulp was eaten up at once. Therefore, it looked for another opportunity to rob another well in order to have a second drink.

You see, isn't the true truth the opposite of that fable? Ants are tenacious beggars, but diligent producers are cicadas!

Chapter VI Masonic Bees

There are many kinds of insects that like to nest near our home. Among these insects, the first one that aroused people's interest was an animal called the recumbent bee.

Why? Mainly because the recumbent bee has a very beautiful and moving figure, a very clever mind, and one thing to pay attention to is its very strange nest. However, few people know about this small insect-the waist-falling bee.

Sometimes, they even live by a family's stove, but this family knows nothing about this little neighbor. Why? Mainly because of its natural, quiet and peaceful nature. Indeed, this little thing lives in a hidden way and it is difficult to attract people's attention.

Chapter VII Mantis

There is an insect in the south that, like cicadas, can arouse people's interest, but it is not very famous because it can't sing. If it also has cymbals, its fame should be much greater than that of famous musicians, because its shape and habits are very unusual. This will be an excellent musician.

Many years ago, in ancient Greece, this insect was called mantis, or prophet. Farmers saw it standing upright on the grass scorched by the sun, with a solemn gesture. Its broad, veiled thin wings are dragged like a mask, and its front legs are shaped like arms, reaching into the air as if praying. To an ignorant farmer, it seems to be a nun, so later, someone called it mantis.

Chapter 8 Bees, Cats and Red Ants

One day, I caught forty bees in the honeycomb under the eaves and told my youngest daughter Egeland to wait under the eaves. Then I put the bees in a paper bag and walked with them for two and a half miles. Then I opened the paper bag and saw if there were any bees flying back.

In order to tell whether the bees flying under my roof were thrown away by me, I made a white mark on the backs of those abandoned bees.

In this process, my hand was inevitably stabbed several times, but I persisted, and sometimes I forgot my pain. I just held the bee tightly and finished my work. As a result, more than 20 bees were damaged. When I opened the paper bag, the bees that had been bored for a long time flew in all directions, as if trying to tell which direction to go home.

Chapter 9 Mine Bee Driving Tunnel

My bee is a slender bee. They are different in size. The big one is bigger than the wasp, and the small one is smaller than the fly. But they have a common feature, that is, there is an obvious ditch at the bottom of the abdomen, and a thorn is hidden in the ditch. When the enemy invades, the thorn can move back and forth along the ditch to protect itself.

What I want to say here is that there is a red striped bee among my bees. The stripes of the female bee are very beautiful, and the slender abdomen is surrounded by black and brown stripes. As for the figure, it is similar to a wasp.

Its nest is usually built in solid soil, because there is no danger of collapse. For example, the flat path in our yard is their ideal house foundation. Every spring, they come to this place to camp in droves. The number of each group is different, and the largest is almost hundreds of wasps. This place has become their metropolis.

Chapter 10 Fireflies

Among all kinds of insects, few can shine. But one of them is famous for its light. This strange little animal seems to have a lamp on its tail to express its good wishes for a happy life.

Even though we have never seen it, we have never seen it fly across the grass in the dark, and we have never seen it fall from the full moon.

Just like a small Mars, then, at least from its name, we can know something about it. In ancient times, the Greeks once called it bright tail, which is a very vivid name. In modern times, scientists gave it a new name, called firefly.

Chapter 1 1 Managed Worm

When spring comes, as long as you have a pair of eyes, you can see everything in the world clearly. People can find a strange little thing on dilapidated walls and dusty roads, or on those empty land.

It's a small bundle of firewood. For some reason, it can move freely and jump forward. The inanimate things have become living things, and the immobile things can actually beat. What the hell is going on here?

This is really very strange and surprising. But if we look carefully, we will soon solve the mystery.

Chapter 12 Cicada: Cicada's Egg

Common cicadas like to lay eggs on dry branches. It chooses the smallest branches, most of which are as big as grass and pencils. These twigs rarely hang down, they are usually tilted and almost all of them are dead.

Cicada found a suitable twig and stabbed it in the chest with a sharp tool, as if it were stabbed obliquely with a needle. A dead branch is often pierced into thirty or forty holes. Its eggs are laid in these small holes. Generally, each hole lays about ten eggs, a total of about three or four hundred.

Chapter 13 Firewood sawfly

If you walk in the garden, you will find some delicate holes in the leaves of lilacs or roses, both round and oval, just like someone has cut them skillfully.

Some leaves have many holes, leaving only veins. Who did this? Why do they do this? Delicious or fun? All these things were done by sawflies. They use their mouths as scissors and cut small leaves by turning their eyes and bodies.

They do this not because it is delicious or fun, but because these little leaves are very important in their lives. They put these small leaves together and put them in a needle-hoop-shaped bag, which can store honey and eggs. Every wasp's nest has a bag in the shape of an injection ring, and those bags overlap one after another.

Chapter XIV Cotton-picking Bees and Fat-picking Bees

We know that many bees, like sawflies, do not build their own nests, but only use nests left or abandoned by other animals as their shelters. Some bees will live in the former residence of Mei Sen bees, some will live in earthworms' tunnels or snails' empty shells, some will occupy branches once occupied by bees, and some will move into sandpits once occupied by bees.

Chapter 15 Self-control of Spanish rhinoceros head

I hope you still remember the sacred beetle, which consumed its time. Make it into a ball, which can be used as food or as the foundation of a pear-shaped nest.

I have pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of this shape for small beetles, because the circle is a good shape to keep food dry and not hard.

After observing the work of this beetle for a long time, I began to wonder if I strongly praised its instinct. Maybe my estimate is wrong. Do they really care about their larvae and prepare the softest and most suitable food for them?

Further reading: I don't know what the world is like after reading Insects. Open "Insect Story", and a magical and vivid insect world unfolds before my eyes.

The author of Entomology is French entomologist Fabers. He has been friends with insects all his life, and insect research has almost run through his half life. Fables lived to be 92 years old, which is the pride of the world. Hugo called him "Homer in the insect world"; In romain rolland's eyes, he is "a master of language who has mastered the secrets of countless bugs in the field". French literary circles once recommended Fabres as a candidate for the Nobel Prize with the titles of "Poet of Science" and "Virgil of Insect World", but unfortunately, he died before he was finally evaluated.

This book describes dozens of insects, such as cicada, mantis, green slug, sisi dung beetle and languedoc scorpion. The anthropomorphic writing vividly shows a vivid life. It turns out that cicadas are singers who pursue freedom, while leaf-cutting bees are proficient in geometry! What impressed me most was the black-bellied tarantula. According to Fabers, the black-bellied tarantula is very toxic, and it can easily kill a sparrow, even a mole much bigger than it. Coupled with its "lightning speed", catching prey is fast and accurate, which is really a "lightning poison" in the insect world. While lamenting the wolf spider's superb hunting skills, he was also impressed by the author's efforts in scientific research, rigorous attitude and fearless courage. Just imagine, faced with such a poisonous tarantula, ordinary people will certainly stay away from it, while Fabres is devoted to close observation and scientific research, which is admirable. Taking Fabres as an example, we should apply this spirit to our study.

In the story of insects, I saw a new wonderful world, felt the research spirit of a scientist, and learned a learning attitude that benefited me for life.