What's the meaning of Shihuang Garden?

This fable tells that many animals are preparing for winter before it comes. The lazy cicada not only fails to prepare for winter, but also laughs at the stupidity of ants and other animals in storing food for winter. But when the cold winter really came, all the other animals survived the winter safely, while the lazy cicada was drowned by the heavy snow while looking for food on snowy days.

2. Play dead with insects

After an autumn rain between ants and cicadas, green leaves and grass were covered with golden coats. The sun came out and the ant brothers began to prepare food for the winter. They came to the tree, collected the fallen fruits, put them neatly under the tree to dry, and then carried them home bit by bit.

3. The cicada is out of the hole

After grubs [cicada larvae] break out of their shells and leave the fibrous branches, the tentacles can swing freely. Legs are strong and can stretch freely, and the claws in front can also stretch. Then they wobbled and fell. They are very clever. When they were in the tree, they found the place where they fell. Finally, when they found a place, they started working immediately without delay.

4. Mantis preys

When the prey moves within the range of mantis, mantis will respond. First, turn your head in the direction of the prey and keep a close eye on it. After that, the front feet (claws) are tightened, the center of gravity moves backward, and the line of sight does not leave the prey. When the time comes, the mantis will catch its prey at an extremely fast speed, stab its claws into its body, hold it tightly and eat it.

5. Grey locust

The life of locusts begins with fertilized eggs. The larvae just hatched from eggs have no wings and can jump, which is called jumping insects. The flea is similar in shape and living habits to adults, but smaller in size and immature in reproductive organs, so it is also called nymph. If an insect grows up gradually, it will shed its original exoskeleton when it is restricted by the exoskeleton and can no longer grow up. This is called molting.

Extended data:

Entomology is a book about insect life, involving dung beetles, ants, Sisyphus worms and so on 100 kinds of insects. In this world, there are about 654.38 billion known insect species, accounting for 5/6 of all known animal species.

There are still millions of unknown insects to be discovered and recognized by human beings. /kloc-in the middle of the 9th century, after Fabres taught in a school, he and his children observed all kinds of insects in the field, named them and sang praises to them.

In addition, this book not only records Fabres's research achievements in detail, but also records Fabres's motivation, life ambition, knowledge background and living conditions, especially Alma laboratory, atavism, my school, pond, mathematical memory: Newton binomial, mathematical memory: my little desk, childhood memories, etc.

If we look at it from another angle, we might as well regard Insect as Fabres's autobiography, a very peculiar autobiography. Insects are only evidence of his research experience and circumstantial materials of his biography.