What are the abilities of insects? Which insects have the ability to play dead

Insects are of great variety and morphology, belonging to the arthropods of invertebrates, and are the most abundant animal group on the planet, accounting for more than 50% of all biological species (including bacteria, fungi, and viruses), and their traces are found in almost every corner of the world. Until the beginning of the 21st century, there were more than 1 million species of insects known to humans, but there are still many species yet to be discovered. Insects are the most diverse and abundant in the animal kingdom and have a significant impact on agricultural production and human health [1].

The most common are locusts, butterflies, bees, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, cockroaches, etc. Not only are there many species of insects, but the number of individuals of the same species is also staggering. The distribution of insects is so wide that no other class of animals can compare with it, and it is almost all over the earth.

There are different types. Most insects can be used as specimens, and they are a good biological resource that humans can use. The "long distance" champion insects have dominated the animal kingdom mainly because of their wings.

Insects that collect pollen like bees would not be able to fly back and forth among the many flowers every day without dexterous wings. Most insects live in fixed places, but there are about 200 species of insects, such as animals and migratory birds, that have a habit of migrating every year, such as locusts and butterflies. When some insects migrate, they are in swarms, and their numbers can reach millions or even billions.

According to eyewitnesses, flocks of migratory birds, blocking the sky, keep flying in the sky for a few hours, as long as days, and sometimes as long as weeks! The most amazing thing is that these insects are able to fly for long periods of time. They can fly over mountains, oceans, and continents!

When insects migrate, it is usually insects of the same species that fly together, but there are often different species of insects that mix together and fly at the same time. Sometimes there are as many as 40 different species of insects in the migratory procession. The champion of the "long flight" among insects is the spotted butterfly.

Spotted butterflies live on the American continent. Every autumn, North American spotted butterflies migrate south to spend the winter. After taking off from North America, some of them made a long journey to the southeast.

They first crossed the vast Atlantic Ocean, crossed the Azores, and then flew to the Sahara Desert in Africa, or to places like Italy and Greece. The other part flies long distances from North America to the southwest. They float in the vast Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles away to places like Japan and even Australia.

As can be seen from the fossils of springtails found in the Devonian period, insects originally had no wings. Later, in the Carboniferous period, flying insects began to appear. At that time, flying insects were huge, as big as dragonflies.

They have two pairs of wings on their bodies. When flying, their wings flap slowly, but perhaps they can glide through the air like dragonflies.

1. Nesting: Some insects can form their own nests individually or collectively, such as ants, bees, etc.

2. Flight: Some insects give birth to wings in order to protect themselves or hunt, such as dragonflies, flies, etc.

3. Swimming: Some insects can survive in the water in order to protect their offspring, such as pricking bugs, scorpion bugs, etc.

4. Webs: Some insects will spin silk webs in order to hunt or grow on their own, such as silkworms, spiders, etc.

5. Concealment: Some insects can integrate into the environment in order to protect themselves, such as stick insects, orchids, butterflies, etc.

1. Some insects have a strong reproductive ability, and sometimes they can also reproduce parthenogenesis;

2. Some insects have a strong ability to recognize the direction. to bees, etc.

3. Some insects have very strong physical strength, like ants can resist things that are much heavier than themselves.

4. Many things in human beings are learned from insects, such as bionics, dragonflies, flies, etc.

Insects such as beetles, weevils, stag beetles, leaf beetles, and inchworm caterpillars have the ability to play dead. Feign death is a defensive strategy of insects, which is more common in Coleopteran insects. For example, when the beetle is infested, it immediately becomes paralyzed and falls from the tree to the ground, which is called suspended animation.

Drop the black cloth armor from a high place onto the table. I saw that it was facing the sky on its back, motionless, and obviously dead. But it didn't take long for the dead bug to come back to life on its own.

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.

Introduction: Insects is divided into ten volumes, each volume is divided into 17 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.