Excerpts from the beginning and end of entomology

The first chapter is about the tradition of ancestors.

Chapter II Mysterious Pond

Chapter III Silkworm

Chapter IV dung beetles

The fifth chapter cicada

Chapter VI Masonic Bees

Chapter VII Mantis

Chapter 8 Bees, Cats and Red Ants

Chapter 9 Mine Bee Driving Tunnel

Chapter 10 Fireflies

Chapter 1 1 Managed Worm

Chapter 12 Firewood sawfly

Chapter XIII Cotton-picking Bees and Fat-picking Bees

Chapter 14 Self-control of Spanish rhinoceros head

Chapter 15 Two Strange Grasshoppers

Chapter 16 Wasps

Chapter 17 The adventures of grubs

Chapter 18 Crickets

Chapter 19 Petite red striped bee

Chapter 20 Xixi

Chapter 21 Catch flies and bees

Chapter 22 Parasites

Chapter 23 Metabolic Workers

Chapter 24 Dendrolimus punctatus

Chapter 25 Pieris rapae

Chapter 26 Peacock moth

Chapter 27 Looking for Beetles with Dry Dew Bacteria

Chapter 28 Children who love insects

Chapter 29 Striped Spider

Chapter 30 Tarantula

Chapter 31 Crucho Spider

Chapter 32 Palace Spider

Chapter 33 Spider Web Architecture

Chapter 34 The Geometry of Spiders

Chapter 35 Spider's Telegraph Line

Chapter 36 Crab Spider

On heritage

Everyone has his own talent and personality. Sometimes, this character seems to be inherited from our ancestors.

It is inherited there, but it is very, very difficult to find out where these words come from.

Things.

For example, one day I saw a shepherd boy who was counting pebbles in a low voice and counting the total number of pebbles.

Count, as a pastime, so he became a very famous professor when he grew up. Finally, he may become one of them.

As a mathematician. In addition, there is a child who is not much older than other children. Other children

He only pays attention to interesting things, but doesn't play with other children. He fantasizes about a musical instrument all day.

Voice, so when he was alone, he heard a mysterious ensemble. It can be seen that this child is rich.

Musical genius. The third child, small and thin, is also very small. Maybe he will eat bread and jam.

Accidentally painted on his face, in fact, he has his own hobbies-like carving clay sculptures and making various small models.

These small models were carved into various shapes by him. If the child is lucky, he will become one day.

A famous sculptor.

I know it's very annoying to talk about other people's private affairs behind their backs, but I think maybe everyone

Please allow me to talk about it and take this opportunity to introduce myself and my research.

When I was very young, I had a feeling of being close to nature. If you think my

This character of observing plants and insects is inherited from my ancestors. This is a big laugh.

Words, because my ancestors were uneducated hillbillies and knew nothing about others. They only

What they know and care about is their own cattle and sheep. Only one of my grandparents has read this book.

Son, even his spelling of letters seems very unreliable to me. As for me, if I have to say that I have suffered.

What special training, not to mention, I have never been taught by a teacher or a tutor since I was a child.

There are often no books to read. However, I just keep moving towards a goal in front of me, and this goal is to have.

One day, in the History of Insects, I will add a few pages of my views on insects.

Looking back, many years ago, when I was a naive child, I just learned.

I can read letters, however, I am very proud of my courage and determination to study for the first time.

I clearly remember the first time I went to find the bird's nest and collect wild mushrooms. At that time,

That kind of happy mood really makes me unforgettable until today.

I remember one day, I climbed a mountain near my home. On the top of this mountain, there is a piece that caught my attention very early.

Woods with strong interest, from my small window, you can see these trees standing in the sky, swaying with the wind.

Bending in the snow, I have long wanted to have a chance to visit these Woods. I climbed the mountain this time. I climbed it.

It's been a long time, and my legs are short, so the climbing speed is slow, and the grass slope is steep, just like the roof.

Suddenly, at my feet, I found a very lovely bird. I guess the bird must be hiding.

Fly down from a big rock. I found the bird's nest in a short time. This bird's nest is dry

Made of grass and feathers, there are six eggs in it. These eggs are beautiful pure blue and very bright.

This is the first time I have found the bird's nest, and it is also the first time that birds have brought me a lot of happiness. I'm so happy, Yu.

It was I who squatted on the grass and observed it very carefully.

At that time, the mother bird was very anxious to fly around the stone and said, "Tucker! Tucker! " Cry loudly, show

Show a very uneasy look. I was too young to even understand why it was so painful. At that time,

I have a plan. I brought a blue egg back as a souvenir. Then, two weeks later,

Again, take these birds away before they can fly. I was lucky when I put blue eggs in green.

Moss walked carefully on his way home and happened to meet a priest.

He said, "Oh! An egg from Xing Zi! Where did you find this egg? "

I told him about the experience of picking up eggs back and forth and said, "I'm going to go back and take the rest of the eggs away, but I have to wait."

When a newborn bird just grows feathers. "

"Hey, don't do this!" Cried the priest; "You can't be so cruel, to rob the poor mother bird.

Kid. Now you have to be a good boy and promise me that you will never touch that bird's nest again. "

I learned two things from this conversation. First, stealing eggs is cruel. Second, birds.

Animals, like humans, have their own names.

So I asked myself, "What are the names of many of my friends in the Woods and on the grassland?"

What's your name? What does Sachikola mean? "

A few years later, I learned that saxicola means residents in rocks, and the birds that lay blue eggs are one of them.

A bird called a stone bird.

There is a small river flowing quietly along our village. On the other side of the river, there is a forest, very flat.

Straight trees are like towering columns, and the ground is covered with moss.

I collected wild mushrooms in this forest for the first time. The shape of this wild fungus, at first glance, seems to be

Hens lay eggs on moss. There are many other kinds of wild mushrooms with different shapes and colors. some

They are shaped like small bells, some like light bulbs, some like teacups, and some are broken. They will flow.

Tears are like milk. Some of them turn blue when I step on them. Among them, one is the rarest.

Strange, like a pear, it has a round hole on it, which is probably a kind of chimney. I poked it with my finger,

There will be a pile of smoke from the chimney, and I will fill a big bag with them. When I am in a good mood, I will

Let them smoke until they shrink into tinder.

After that, I went back to this interesting forest several times. I'm in the ravens' team, studying the preliminary work of mycology.

Class, everything you get through this collection is impossible to get by staying in the house.

In this combination of observing nature and doing experiments at the same time, all my homework except two.

I took almost all the courses. I only learned two kinds of science lessons from others, but in my life.

There are only two languages: one is anatomy and the other is chemistry.

The first is that I benefited from Morgan Si Tong, a accomplished natural scientist, who taught me how to see in a basin full of water.

The internal structure of a snail. The course is short, but you can learn a lot.

When I first learned chemistry, I was unlucky. In an experiment, a glass bottle exploded, which made most students very miserable.

Injured, one person was almost blind, the teacher's clothes were burned to pieces, and the walls of the classroom were stained a lot.

Spots. Later, when I returned to this classroom, I was no longer a student but a teacher, but the spots on the wall still existed.

There. This time, I learned at least one thing, that is, every time I do an experiment in the future, I always let the students leave.

Drive a little further.

I have one biggest wish, that is, to set up a laboratory in the wild. At that time, I was still facing every day.

This is really not easy to do in a life of worrying about problems! I have had this for nearly forty years.

Dream, want to own a small piece of land, enclose the land and make it my private land; quiet

Loneliness, desolation, exposure to the sun, and covering Cao Jing are all environmental conditions that wasps and bees like. Here,

Without interruption, I can ask and answer questions with my friends, such as bee hunters, in a difficult language, including.

It contains a lot of observations and experiments.

Here, there are no long-distance trips and hiking trips that waste time and energy, so that I can kill time.

Watch out for my insects!

I finally realized my wish. I got a small piece of land in a quiet place in a small village. this is

A piece of hemp, the name is given to a place where we can't farm. There are many stones in Brovin.

Yes Few plants can grow there except some thyme. If you work hard, you can grow

Things, but it is not worth it. But in spring, some sheep will pass by, if it happens to rain at that time.

Rain can also grow some grass.

However, my own proprietary marijuana, but some red soil mixed with stones, and has been roughly cultivated.

It's over. I was told that vines grow on this land, so I was really annoyed, because it turns out.

Some plants have been removed with two-legged forks, and now there is no thyme. Thyme may be useful to me because

I have to replant them because they may be used as hunting grounds for wasps and bees.

It is full of sedges, Erythrina flowers and Spanish plants-orange flowers are everywhere.

And plants with hard clawed flowers. These tops are covered with a layer of Illyrian cotton thistle, which stands tall and upright.

Branches sometimes grow to six feet high and have big pink balls with small thorns at the end. They are well equipped.

That people who collect plants don't know where to pick them. Among them, there are spikes of cornflowers, which grow well.

With a row of hooks, the buds of raspberries climbed to the ground. Come to a place with so many thorns without wearing high heels.

In the forest, you will be punished for your carelessness.

This is the paradise I have worked hard for forty years!

In my strange and barren kingdom, it is a happy hunting ground for countless bees and wasps, which I have never had before.

I have seen so many insects in one place. All kinds of businesses are centered on this land to hunt all kinds of things.

Hunters, masons, textile workers, leaf cutters, cardboard manufacturers and gypsum workers are also mixing mud.

Carpenters are drilling wood, miners are digging underground tunnels, cattle's large intestine membrane (used to separate gold foil) workers, and so on.

Everyone has it.

Look! There is a kind of bee that can sew. It stripped the wire of Erythrina from the yellow flower bottom and collected one.

What's in the ball, proudly take it away with your cheeks (that is, chin). It will go underground and be stored with these collected things.

Hide honey and eggs. There are a group of leaf-cutting bees, and there are black, white or blood red under their bodies.

Yes, the cutting brush. They are going to the nearby Woods and cut the leaves into circles to wrap them.

Our harvest. This is another group of plasterer bees in black silk sweaters. They work in cement and sand. exist

In my Hamas, we can easily find tools for them to work on stones. In addition, there is a wild bee, which puts

The nest is hidden in a ladder with an empty snail shell. The other is to put its larvae in the pith of dried raspberry stems.

The third place is the dry reed ditch. As for the fourth kind, living in the empty tunnel of the plasterer's bee, and

You don't even have to pay rent. Some bees have horns, and some bees have brushes on their hind legs.

harvest

The wall of my Hamam has been built, and piles of stones and fine sand can be seen everywhere. These are buildings.

Workers piled it up, and soon it was occupied by families. The stonemason bee chose a crack in the stone and took advantage of it.

Become a place where they sleep. If there is a fierce lizard, it will attack if it is accidentally crushed.

People and dogs. They chose a cave and lay there waiting for dung beetles passing by. Thrush with black ear hair, dressed in white and black.

The clothes in the room look like a monk in black, sitting on the top of a stone and singing simple songs. Those little eggs with sky blue in them.

Where can I find the bird's nest in the stone pile? When the stone is moved, people live in it.

Those young monks in black were naturally moved together. I feel very sorry for these little monks in black, because they are very

Lovely little neighbor. As for the lizard, I don't think it is cute, so I have no idea about its departure.

That's a real pity.

In the sand, there are communities of bees digging and hunting. To my regret, these poor digging bees

Bees and bee hunters were ruthlessly driven away by construction workers. But there are still some Orion left,

They are busy looking for caterpillars all day. There is also a bumblebee who dares to catch it.

Poisonous spiders, in the soil of Hamas, there are many such spiders, which are quite interesting. As you can see, this is also

There are strong and brave ants, who send out the power of a barracks and set out in a long line to hunt in the battlefield.

Take their powerful prisoners.

In addition, there are all kinds of birds in the Woods near the house. Some of them are singing birds, others are singing birds.

Green warbler, sparrow and owl. There is a small pond in this forest, which is full of frogs. May.

When the time came, they formed a deaf band. Among the residents, the bravest is the wasp.

You took over my house without permission. There are white-waisted bees in front of my house. Every time I walk into the room,

I must be very careful when I am in the mine, or I will step on them and ruin their mining work. In the closed

In the window, the plasterer bees build their nests on the soft sand wall. I accidentally left a small hole in the wooden frame of the window.

Used by them as a portal. On the edge of the shutter, a few lost bees from Mei Sen built a hive.

As soon as lunch time comes, these wasps come to visit. Their purpose is of course to see if my grapes are ripe.

These insects are all my companions, my dear little animals, friends I used to know and still know,

They all live here. They hunt, build nests and feed their families every day. Besides, if I play

If I move, the mountain is close to me. Wild strawberry trees, rock roses and heather plants, wasps and bees are everywhere.

Everyone likes to gather there. I have many reasons to escape from the city for the sake of the countryside and come to the southwest to do something.

Weeding and irrigating lettuce.

Crab spider

Although the striped spider we mentioned earlier works hard, it has been trying to build a comfortable nest for its eggs.

The little chef of hippo worked tirelessly and forgot to eat and sleep. But in the end, it can no longer take care of its home. Why? because

Because its life is too short. When the first cold current comes, it will die. Its eggs will not hatch until winter. it

Had to leave its nest. If we can give birth to a baby while the mother spider is still alive, I believe that the mother spider is cautious about the baby spider.

Care as much as birds. Another kind of spider proved my guess; It's a spider that can't weave a web: just wait and see.

It will only catch its prey if it runs close, and it walks sideways, which is a bit like a crab, so it is called a crab spider.

This spider doesn't use a web to hunt. Its hunting method is: ambush behind the flowers and wait for the prey to pass by, and then

Go up and gently stab it in the neck. Don't underestimate this gentle thorn, it can kill prey. What I have observed.

This group of crab spiders especially like to hunt bees.

Bees are so focused on collecting nectar that they won't consider abandoning it. It licks nectar with its tongue,

Then choose a stamen that can collect a lot of nectar and start working wholeheartedly. When it works hard,

The crab spider has long been waiting to sneak out of its hiding place and walk behind the bees, getting closer and closer.

Then he rushed up and stung the bee at some point behind its neck. No matter how hard bees try, they can't get rid of this.

Stingo

This stab is not a random blow. It just stung the nerve center of the bee's neck. In the nerves of bees

The fulcrum was paralyzed, and the legs began to harden and could not move. One second, a little life came to an end. Crab spider

The murderer sucked its blood happily and contentedly, wiped his mouth after sucking it, and cruelly threw its remains aside.

However, we will see that this cruel executioner is a very kind and gentle mother at home. Such as "food"

People are strange. Although they eat other people's children mercilessly, they love their own children very much. be pressed by hunger

Now, we are the same. People and animals are cannibals.

Although the crab spider is a killer who kills bees without seeing blood, you have to admit that it is also a very beautiful little thing.

West side. Although their bodies are not very good, they are like short and fat cones carved on a stone foundation.

On one side, there is a small piece of meat, like camel bees, but their skin is bigger than any satin.

Good-looking, some are milky white, some are lemon. Some of them are particularly beautiful: there are pink ones on the legs.

A ring with a deep red pattern on the back and sometimes a light green belt on the left or right side of the chest.

Although it is not as rich as a striped spider, its belly is not so slack, with detailed patterns and rich colors.

Coordination, so it looks more elegant and noble than the striped spider's clothes. People stay away from other spiders.

Yes, but I can't be afraid of the beautiful crab spider, because it is so beautiful and lovely if they

They are all small things that can't be moved, and everyone will definitely love them.

Crab spider nest

In nesting, the crab spider's superb skills are no less than its foraging skills.

I once found it in a water wax tree, when it was nesting among a bunch of flowers and weaving a white one.

The silk bag is shaped like a thimble: this white silk bag is the nest of its eggs, and the mouth of the bag is covered with another one.

A round, flat, furry lid.

At the top of the roof, there is a dome made of wool with some withered petals. this is

Its observation deck. From the outside to the observation deck, there is an opening as a passage.

On this observation deck, the crab spider is like a conscientious guard who stays here every day. Start with laying eggs.

After that, I lost a lot of weight than before, and almost completely lost my youthful appearance. It was attracted.

On this observation deck, every sign of trouble will make you nervous, bury yourself in a state of readiness and then come out and wave.

One leg threatened to disturb its uninvited guest, and it gestured excitedly and told it to get out, otherwise it would be at its own risk.

Its ferocious appearance and exciting action really scared those malicious or innocent outsiders, and put those

After the sneaky guy drove away, he returned to his post contentedly.

So what does it do under the dome made of silk and petals? It turned out that it was stretching to cover the baby.

Eggs. Although it is very thin at this time, it seems that a gust of wind can take it away, and it has forgotten its diet.

In order to keep watch, it has now abandoned sleep and stopped catching bees to suck their blood to satisfy its hunger. just

Sit quietly on your eggs.

I can't help thinking of hens. The same is true of hens hatching eggs, except that their bodies can provide heat.

Quantity, when it hatches eggs, its warm air is conducted to the eggs, awakening the seeds of life. For spiders,

The sun provides enough heat. Mother spider no longer needs to provide heat. In fact, it has no power.

This quantity provides heat energy. Because of this difference, we can't call the waiting of spiders "hatching the next generation".

After two or three weeks, the female spider became thinner and thinner because she didn't eat anything. But its watch can work.

But I don't see any slack. What does it want before it dies? It seems to have been waiting for something, this kind of waiting.

Let it struggle to feed itself and support a lifeless body with its spirit. What is it waiting for? be

What is worth waiting for in its life? Later, I learned that I was waiting for its children to come out, and there was this pendant.

A dead mother can still do something for her children.

The children of striped spiders became orphans long before they left the balloon-shaped nest, and no one came to help them break the nest.

They have no ability to break out of their nests by themselves, so they can only send the little spiders in all directions when the nests automatically crack. They came out.

I didn't even know who my mother was when I came. The crab spider's nest is tightly closed and won't split automatically.

The cover on the floor won't rise automatically, so how did the little spider get out? When the spider hatches, we will find it on the edge of the cover.

There is a small hole in the edge. This hole didn't exist in the past. Obviously, someone helped Xiao Zhi secretly because they were on the cover.

Bite a small hole in the hole to facilitate them to go out. But who quietly opened a hole there?

The wall of the bag is so thick that the weak spider can never scratch it by itself. In fact, this hole is theirs.

My dying mother called. When it feels the impatient commotion of the little life in the bag, it knows the child.

I was so anxious that I made a hole in the bag wall with all my strength. Although the female spider is weak enough to die at any time,

But in order to make a final effort for its family, it has tenaciously supported it for five or six weeks. And then put all your strength

Accumulate to a point where this hole bursts out. After the task was completed, he passed away safely. When it died, it didn't

Often very calm, with a peaceful face, hold the useless nest tightly on your chest and slowly shrink into a stiff ball.

Bodies. What a great mother! The sacrifice spirit of the mother ant is touching, but compared with the crab spider, it seems to be slightly inferior.

Much better.

In July, the little crab spider in my laboratory came out of the egg. I know they have a hobby of climbing ropes, so

I put a bundle of twigs in their cage. Sure enough, they immediately climbed to the top of the branch along the iron cage, and again

They quickly weave interlaced webs with crossed silk threads, which is their air sofa. They sat quietly on the sofa.

After a few days' rest in the park, they began to build a suspension bridge.

I took the branches covered with many little spiders to a table by the window and opened the window. Soon the little spider will

They started spinning to make their flying tools, but they did it slowly because they were always half-hearted.

Climb to the bottom of the branch and go back to the top, as if I don't know what I want or how to do it.

At this rate, they have been busy there for a long time without any results. They are all eager to fly out, but they just

I have no courage. At eleven o'clock, I took the branches carrying them to the window bar to let the sun shine on them.

Physically. A few minutes later, the sun's light and heat shot into their bodies and accumulated into a small engine.

Bring the little spider to life. I saw them walking faster and faster, more and more agile, and kept walking towards the branches.

Climb to the top of the tree. Although I can't see it spinning in the air, I believe they are trees at the moment.

The tip is spinning fast, ready to go!

Three or four crab spiders set out at the same time, but went their separate ways and walked in different directions, and the rest climbed to the top one after another.

Go up and drag the silk behind. Suddenly a gust of wind blew. Oh, those spiders are so light and their silk is so thin.

Will the wind blow them away?

I looked at it carefully, and the wind really blew off the filament suddenly, so the little spider floated in the air with the wind for a while, and then followed.

Take their parachutes-the broken wires floated away. I watched them leave the back until it disappeared from my sight.

It flies farther and farther, forty feet away from the starting point. It is like the light shining in the dark cypress leaves.

Star. It flew higher and higher, farther and farther, and finally disappeared. The rest of the spiders followed, some flying high,

Some fly very low. Some went this way, some went that way, and finally found their own home.

At this time, all the little spiders are ready to take off. Now is not the time to fly out in twos and threes,

On the contrary, they flew out in a group of light, perhaps inspired by the heroic behavior of several pioneers. Soon it will

One by one, the children landed safely, some in the distance and some in the vicinity. This simple parachute successfully completed its mission.

Mission.

I don't know their later stories. How can they catch bees before they have the strength to sting them?

What about eating bugs? If a bug fights a spider, who will win? Will you play any conspiracy? It will be affected by the following factors

What are the threats from natural enemies? I don't even know. But by next summer, we can see that it has grown very fat.

It is very big, and they have been hiding in the flowers and sneaking up on those hardworking bees.