Will the insects play dead, Fabre said no

Feign death is a defensive strategy of insects, which is more common in Coleopteran insects. The time of suspended animation has nothing to do with the outside environment! It mainly depends on the physiology of the insects themselves.

The time of dormancy and diapause is closely related to the environment.

Fabre just said that one of the scorpions wouldn't play dead, and that a lot of insects would.

Yes, one of their means of survival is that many of them will.

Fabre. I once said a sentence that showed my attitude towards insects:"A small point of life, a grain of protein that can be happy and sad, is more interesting to me than a huge inanimate planet. "

Fabre is a French entomologist, writer, and self-taught rural teacher who has spent his life dealing with insects, and is known as "Virgil of the insect world" by the French literary circles.

Fabre spent his life in poverty and frugal, and only wanted to write a "history" of insects - "Insects".

For a book about tiny bugs to be so widespread and long-lasting, we have to trace back to its author, who must have been an eternally chaste and pure child to make his work touching—past, present, and future.

A long time ago, readers thought that "Insects" was a popular science book for children, because it was concise and clear, simple and humorous, and it was very suitable for children who were curious about their surroundings. However, this does not negate that "Insects" is an immortal world masterpiece.

Fabre analyzes insect nature with human nature, and transforms the insect world into a text with knowledge, interest, beauty and thought in the human world.

With an innocent and simple heart, Fabre narrates one interesting insect world after another.

I don't think any writer has a profound knowledge of entomology, and no other entomologist has such a simple and concise expression, and Fabre is an organic combination of a natural scientist and a writer, both in writing and studying insects.

Mr. Luo Ogang wrote in the preface to the first edition of the 1992 Chinese translation of "Insects":

1.It is true, reliable, detailed, and profound;

2.The writing is concise and clear. There is no general literary work, and the general lyrical prose scratches the head and gestures, and its style is simple, funny, and self-contained.

Mr. Luo's assessment is very pertinent. Fabre's Insects is not just a rigorous scientific record, it is also a literary achievement (it has won several Nobel Prizes for Literature).

Extended Material: Fabre has been plagued by "poverty" and "prejudice" throughout his life. The first half of his life was poor, and the second half of his life was barely fed. Scholars in the literary and scientific circles despised Fabre's self-taught academic qualifications, let alone recognized his research direction, and the indifference and jealousy from everyone constituted an extreme prejudice against him.

Fabre sacrificed almost everything in order to do "observational experiments" - to write "Insects", he did not use his advantageous subject knowledge to publish some experimental results that were easy to study, but he had to study the psychology of insects with painstaking work. Fabre had many opportunities in life, but he did not use them to make a name for himself, and he remained content with poverty, even at the cost of trapping his family in poverty.

Fabre has almost forgotten everything, forgetting to eat, sleep, and pastime, not knowing the passage of time, the tiredness of the body, the bitterness and happiness of the world, and even can't tell whether the "barren stone garden" is a human house or an insect dwelling, as if insects have thoughts, and Fabre is a "worm man".

Insect Notes: The Insect Plays Dead Summary: When Fabre studied the situation of insects playing dead, he found through many experiments that the time for the big-headed black step armor to pretend to be dead was longer and longer. In the end, the truth was revealed, and its secret was known.

Fabre also observed and studied a series of insects such as smoky black Gidin, dung beetle, and glitter Gidding. They all stand still for a few minutes and rejuvenate in a few seconds.

Insects, also known as "The World of Insects", "The Tale of Insects", "Entomological Notes" or "The Story of Insects", is a long biological work written by the French entomologist and writer Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre, in ten volumes. The first volume was first published or photocopied in 1879, and the entire book was published for the first time in 1907.

The work is an insect biology work that summarizes the species, characteristics, habits and marriage habits of insects, records the real life of insects, expresses the spirituality of insects when they struggle for survival, and also records the motivation, life ambition, knowledge background, living conditions and so on of Fabre's obsession with insect research. The author integrates the colorful life of insects with his own life perception, and looks at insects with human nature, revealing the author's respect and love for life between the lines of the words.

In April 2020, it was included in the "Ministry of Education's Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development: Center for Primary and Secondary School Students' Reading Guidance Catalogue (2020 Edition)".

Fabre. is a biologist whose job is observation. Dissection is a fundamental skill that a biologist must know, but his observation is not like many scientists, who brutally dissect them, unlike Fabre, who rarely dissects the stomachs of insects, but carefully observes their physiological habits.

He often spends a day on the ground to observe a tiny bug. In order to see the various reactions of the insects to various things, he often does not eat for a day, but only carefully, attentively, and patiently observes the insects' every move, and the slightest carelessness will fail in the experiment, but he is often able to succeed. Why is that?

Because of his patience, carefulness and attentiveness. If students have this spirit, their grades will skyrocket; If a designer has this spirit, he can do it: if a scientist has this spirit, he can do miracles.

The introduction of insects in the books he wrote is also extremely detailed, no matter what the insect is, no matter where it is, he just observes, obscurities until he accomplishes his purpose. Otherwise, it will not stop.

Once a little story struck me, it was about Fabre. It has this passage: "When the women grape pickers went to the field in the early morning, Fabre lay on the ground and looked at the insects, and when the women came home, they saw Fabre still lying on the ground looking at the insects. ”

It was in this spirit that Fabre became Fabre, a brilliant biologist.

Lacking the fear and apprehension of death, but peacefully accepting the death accompaniment.

According to Fabre's observations, he believed that insects had a different attitude towards death than that of mammals or humans, lacking the fear and apprehension of death, and instead accepting death peacefully.

Fabre was the first scientist to study insects in nature, and he went deep into the insect world to observe and experiment with insects in their natural environment.

Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was born in a village called Saint-Léon in the south of France. Since his parents were farmers, Fabre's teenage years were spent in poverty and hardship. He studied very hard, but because he learned Latin and Greek quite well in secondary school, he laid a solid foundation for his later writing.

In 1880, with a small amount of money he had saved, he bought an old house near the country town of Serignan, which sits on a wasteland, and his plan to further study live insects was about to become a reality. He was in good spirits, and in the local Provosan language, he gave the place a witty nickname - Wild Stone Garden. Year after year, he guarded his beloved barren stone garden, opened up the horsepower of his life, tirelessly engaged in unique entomological research, and wrote the fruits of his labor into volume after volume of "Insect Records".

"Insects" is not only a scientific masterpiece for the study of insects, but also a magnificent poem that eulogizes life. "Insects" is a poem that describes the life of insects. As an entomologist, Fabre is rigorous and meticulous.

Based on a large number of first-hand information obtained from observations, he vividly revealed the little-known living habits of insects. "Insects" is an excellent popular science work, and it is also a recognized literary classic, with a relaxed and witty tone, full of interest.

There are 5 kinds of books published by different publishers, and friends can buy or borrow them according to their reading.

The obvious question is, if he doesn't love insects, how can he observe insects so carefully and write such a classic insect book.

It should be due to a great interest in insects.

Fabre's works are diverse: as a naturalist, he left behind many scholarly treatises on flora and fauna, including "Fine Grass: Patents and **", "Animals of Avignon", "Zombles" Xunqiao, "Umbrella Fungus on the Olive Tree", "Grape Phylloxera", etc.; As a teacher, he has written many textbooks on chemistry and physics; As a poet, he wrote many poems in the Provençal language of the south of France and was affectionately known as the "Gadfly Poet" by the locals.

In addition, he translated the works of certain Provençal poets into the French Zao Changming language; In his spare time, he also used his small harmonica to compose some small songs. However, the longest, most important, and best-known of Fabre's work is still The Insects. This work not only shows his talent for scientific observation and research, but also conveys to readers his humanistic spirit and incomparable love for life.