Plot Summary of Insects Main Contents of Insects

1. Barren Stone Garden

Fabre regards the Barren Stone Garden as a treasure. Plants grow here, such as cornflowers, canine grass, etc. It is a paradise for hymenoptera insects. They are busy building their own homes every day. Because there are no human footprints, these animals run into the garden and occupy every space. Orioles, kingfishers and canaries also build nests in the trees. In May, the pond becomes an orchestra pit for tree frogs, who sing happily in the pond. Even the author's room was occupied. These old and new friends gathered here, including various "hunters", "construction workers", "technicians", "miners", bees, and birds.

2. Pine caterpillars

The eggs of pine caterpillars are small pink cylinders and are arranged neatly. The pine caterpillar eggs turn into tiny caterpillars after nine months. These tiny caterpillars begin to eat the needles on the pine trees.

Then, they began to spin silk to make tents. Wherever they went, they vomited, and the tent grew bigger and bigger. One day, Fabre put the leader of the pine caterpillars on the flower pot, and the other pine caterpillars followed and climbed onto the flower pot, forming a long line on the flower pot. Follow the leader and keep spinning around. Six months later, the caterpillars changed dramatically. They grew wings and flew away.

3. Firefly

It is a luminous beetle. They have six short legs and are small in size but very beautiful in appearance. Their favorite food is snails. When they find a snail, they will gently pierce the snail's exposed body with a small hook containing venom. As soon as the venom enters the body, the snail cannot move. The fireflies send out a signal, and other fireflies will fly over to share the food, but fireflies are very clean.

Their tail has another joint that looks like a small brush. After eating the food, they use a small brush to clean themselves. The fireflies have a "little light" on their tails. When it is very dark, the "little light" will become brighter. When it is very bright, the "little light" will appear. When it is very bright, the "little light" will dim, and the male and female can be distinguished from the bright light

4. Tubeworms

Make use of waste. A type of caterpillar with "clothes" is called "tubeworm", such as the most typical "woodworm caterpillar". The tubeworm family is very large and there are many types. The tubeworm always "carries" its clothes because its clothes It is made of the garbage it collects. The clothes are like a "hill".

These little worms carry it as if they are using "invisibility" to keep them warm and safe. It has been busy looking for materials to make clothes since it was born, and it doesn't even care about food. It seems that it is afraid that others will see its naked body and make people laugh. It will accompany it throughout its life. Managed worms - these voluntarily "managed" worms, although they are born to make clothes, their clothes are bulky and heavy, which makes their movements difficult. Fabre found that there were many extremely thin branches inside the tubeworm's coat, about eighty of them.

5. The petite red-striped wasp

The red-striped wasp. She has a slender waist and an exquisite figure. Her abdomen is divided into two sections, one large at the bottom and one small at the top. The middle seems to be connected with a thin line, and there is a red belt around the black belly.

Usually it builds a vertical hole in the soil. The red wasp digs out the soil at the base of the thyme, pulls out the surrounding grass, and then digs its head into the loose soil. It flies from here in a hurry Go there and look into every crack. Instead of building a nest for yourself, you are looking for food in the ground, just like a hunting dog looking for a hare in the hole.

6. Mantis<. /p>

If you look at it from the outside, it is not intimidating. On the contrary, it looks quite beautiful. It has a slender and elegant posture, a light green body color, and long wings as thin as gauze. It is soft, and its head can be rotated freely in any direction. Only this insect can gaze in all directions, and it even has a face, all of which contribute to the gentleness of such a small animal.

7. Two kinds of magical grasshoppers

The first is Embusha, and the second is the white-faced grasshopper.

8. Spanish dung beetle

The dung beetle is what we usually call dung beetle, also called dung beetle. The most obvious characteristic of dung beetles is that they like to eat feces. Before laying eggs, a dung beetle and her husband will roll a food ball out of garbage and feces, roll it to its destination, dig a hole in the soil, and push it in. At first, I thought the dung beetle was pushing the ball forward with its front feet and picking the clear paths.

However, the fact is exactly the opposite. When the dung beetle pushes the ball, it grabs the ball with its hind legs, raises its hips, puts its head down, and walks on its front feet, but it walks backwards! And they also specially choose those roads with potholes and uneven surfaces, and sometimes even choose steep slopes. The ball is very heavy, and it walks backwards. It is very difficult along the way, and the ball often rolls downhill. But the dung beetle is never discouraged. It always takes ten or twenty efforts to push the big ball to its destination.

9. Coprophagous insects in the South American Pampas

The prothorax of the special male is protruding, shaped like a promontory, and the top shell is a broad, flat short horn with a triangular front edge. Ruler-shaped. There are only some simple wrinkles on the top of the female's head shell. Both male and female bugs have a pair of small sharp corners at the front of the top shell. This is both a powerful digging tool and a scalpel for cutting. Its stubby, square shape is reminiscent of the French olive tree bug, a rare insect that lives near Montpellier. Other types of insects also have similar eating habits but similar eating habits.

Predatory membrane-winged insects drink nectar from the depths of the corolla, but feed their offspring with meaty food. They have the same stomach. They eat game as larvae and sweets as adults. From this point of view, their digestive sacs must change midway through their lives! In the end, they are no better than us humans. Once they reach old age, their digestive tracts are no longer interested in the food they munched in their youth.

10. Wasp

The bumblebee - the leader of the wasps, builds its own nest based on the same principle. In the holes of willow trees, or in the empty shells, it uses fragments of wood to create fragile yellow cardboard. It uses this material to wrap its own nest. The layers overlap each other, like large raised scales. You can imagine how warm this is! There is a sufficient gap in the middle of this large scale, and the air stays inside without flowing.

The movements of wasps often coincide with theorems of physics and geometry. They can use air, a poor conductor, to maintain the temperature in their homes. They have been making blankets long before humans thought of making blankets, and their skills are still very high. When they build the outer walls of their nests, they only need a very small perimeter to create many rooms. Their small rooms Likewise, its area and materials are very economical.

11. Crickets

Crickets that live in the grass are almost as famous as cicadas. Cricket is a smart and hard-working animal. It is good at singing and building nests to lay eggs in the soil. They perform quite well among countless model insects.

It is so famous mainly because of its residence, but also because of its outstanding singing talent. Just possessing one of these items is not enough for them to achieve such great fame. La Fontaine, an animal storyteller, only said a few simple words about it, as if he did not notice the genius and fame of this little animal.

12. Parasites

In people's eyes, they are inherently lazy and rely on taking the fruits of other people's labor to maintain their own survival. But while compromising this view, Fabre also made a different voice. He believes that parasitism is not a kind of enjoyment in essence, but an act of hunting. On the surface, they are enjoying the benefits, but in reality, the parasites have worked hard.