Do you know about Insects ?

"Insects" is a book about the life of insects, involving more than 100 kinds of insects, such as dung beetles, ants, and Sisyphus insects. In this world, there are about 1 million species of insects known to mankind, accounting for 5 6 of all known animal speciesAnd there are still millions of unknown insects that are still waiting to be discovered and understood. In the mid-19th century, in addition to teaching at school, Fabre and his children observed all kinds of insects in the fields, named them, and eulogized them.

The book is divided into ten volumes, each volume is divided into 17 and 25 chapters, each chapter describes the life of one or several insects in detail and profoundly, and includes some biographical articles that tell about experiences and reminiscences of the past. In the book, the author describes the tireless efforts of small insects to survive and reproduce by the rules of nature.

Based on his lifelong experience and achievements in insect research, the author looks at insect nature with humanization, reflects social life with insect nature, focuses on the external morphology and biological habits of insects he observes and researches, and truly records the instincts, habits, labor, and death of several common insects.

Artistic features:

Insects is a fusion of science and literature, which also means that it has both scientific rationality and literary sensibility. From time to time, the book is witful, proposing in-depth reflections on the value of life, and trying to integrate the deeper meaning of Hermione's talk into science.

In addition to the research records, the author also mentions his poor and happy country life, the courtyard where he lives, and the experience of going out to hunt insects, and introduces the reader to his children and even his family dog, which is in line with the word "memory" and is full of human touch.

It can be said that the perceptual tone and motivation of this work are a kind of awe and love for life, a sober understanding of survival, and a deep feeling for life. And scientific rationality can only be sustained with the support of this sensibility. In short, the situation recorded in the "Insects" is true, reliable, detailed and profound; The writing is concise and clear, so it is very popular with readers.

"Insects" The main content of the cicada:

The author observes the life of the cicada and its burrow in detail, and further raises two questions, one is how the cicada fixes the soil in the burrow so that the burrow does not collapse, and the other is that the cicada puts the excavated soil into the **.

Through a long period of observation of the hole shaft and many experiments, the author found that the cicada relies on some urine excreted by the body to mix the soil and mix it into clay to fix the hole, and the cicada also uses some insects to eat the excavated soil.

Theme of the work. The 10-volume book "Insects", with its magnificent and rich connotations, evokes people's profound reflections on all things, human beings and popular science. The author integrates the colorful life of insects with his own life perceptions, and looks at insects with human nature.

Through detailed and profound descriptions, the external morphology and biological habits of various insects are recorded, and the lives of various insects and the struggle for the survival and reproduction of the scumbag are recorded, which not only expresses the author's love and respect for life and nature, but also disseminates scientific knowledge, and embodies the author's meticulous observation and tireless spirit of scientific exploration.

Grandfather's Garden

I have a big garden with bees, butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, everything. There are white butterflies and yellow butterflies. This butterfly is small and not very pretty.

The beautiful ones are the big red butterflies, covered in gold dust. Dragonflies are golden, grasshoppers are green. The bee buzzed and flew, covered with fluff, and landed on a flower, chubby, round, like a little furball, and stopped motionless on it.

The garden is bright, red and green, fresh and beautiful.

It is said that this garden was once an orchard. My grandmother liked to raise sheep, and the sheep gnawed the fruit trees, and the fruit trees gradually died. As far as I can remember, there was a cherry tree and a plum tree in the garden, and because cherries and plums were not very fruitful, I thought they didn't exist.

When I was young, I just thought that there was a big elm tree in the garden. This elm tree was in the northwest corner of the garden, and when the wind came, the elm tree cried first, and when the rain came, the elm tree smoked first. As soon as the sun came out, the leaves of the elm trees shone like mussel shells on the beach.

My grandfather was in the garden all day, and I followed him around. My grandfather wore a big straw hat, and I wore a small straw hat; When my grandfather planted flowers, I planted them; When my grandfather pulled the weeds, I pulled the weeds. When my grandfather planted the cabbage, I was behind and used my feet to smooth out the soil nests one by one.

In fact, it's just a blind mess. Sometimes, instead of covering the seeds, they kick it away.

My grandfather shoveled the ground, and I did it. Because I was too young to hold the hoe shaft, my grandfather pulled the hoe shaft off and asked me to shovel it with the "head" of the hoe alone. In fact, it is a shovel, but it is lying on the ground and hooking it with a hoe for a while.

I don't recognize which is the seedling and which is the grass, so I often cut the ears of grain as weeds and keep them as ears.

My grandfather noticed that there was still a patch of dogtail grass left in the field I was shoveling, so he asked me, "What is this?" ”

I said, "Millet." ”

My grandfather laughed, laughed enough, pulled the grass down, and asked me, "Is this what you eat every day?" ”

I said, "Yes." ”

When I saw that my grandfather was still laughing, I said, "If you don't believe me, I'll go into the house and show you." ”

I ran into the house and took an ear of grain, threw it far away to my grandfather, and said, "Isn't this the same?" ”

My grandfather called me over to empty the plane and told me slowly, that the millet has needles, but the dogtail grass does not, but it is hairy, much like a dog's tail.

I don't look into it, but I'll just admit it. When I looked up, I saw a cucumber growing, so I ran over to pick it and ate it. Before I finished eating the cucumber, I saw a big dragonfly by, so I dropped the cucumber and chased after the dragonfly.

The dragonfly flies so fast, will it catch up? Fortunately, I didn't have the intention to catch up, and I followed the dragonfly for a few steps and then went to do something else. Pick a gourd flower, catch a green grasshopper, tie the grasshopper leg with a thread, tie it for a while, only one leg is tied to the thread, and the grasshopper is gone.

When I got tired of playing, I ran to my grandfather's place and made a fuss again. My grandfather watered the vegetables, and I came over too.

Insects".

One summer evening, I went for a walk with my parents, and I found many beautiful spider webs under the railing by Bao Kong Lake, and there was a small spider Bi Mingsong on the ** of each web. I watched the spider carefully to see how it hunted for food.

Because there is a fluorescent light under each railing, it attracts many mosquitoes to fly around here, and my father told me that this is called "phototaxis" of mosquitoes. The little spider waited patiently in the web**. After a while, a stupid mosquito flew over, hit the net, and struggled desperately.

The little spider felt the vibration, and quickly crawled in the direction of the mosquito, and quickly wrapped the mosquito several times with the silk thread, until the mosquito was exhausted and stopped struggling, and then it began to enjoy the food unhurriedly.

Through several observations, I found that each prey of the little spider is very fast and accurate, is it really that smart? So my dad and I did another little experiment, and we used a thin one'The grass gently flicked the spider's web to see if it would think that its prey had taken the bait, and unexpectedly, the little spider not only did not fall for it, but quickly crawled in the opposite direction, until it crawled to the edge of the web, and curled up there quietly. It's as if you're watching what happens.

I can't help but sigh, the little spider is so smart! It was able to tell with agility whether the web vibrations were from prey or from an alien hazard. He is really worthy of being a "mosquito catcher".