There are tables in the text, and mobile phones need to read them horizontally
After a while of busyness, I finally had time to write something fun for everyone. The new things introduced today have actually been in mind for a long time, but they have not had the opportunity to study in depth. The first time I noticed this was during a lunch break a few years ago, sitting on an outdoor bench, when I suddenly noticed something moving:
Hurry up and record the image (send a circle of friends... No, no, no WeChat yet) sent Facebook for advice. Unfortunately, the circle of friends is small, the character is not enough, can not find the answer, had to shelve.
I came across this photo a year or two later:
Suddenly think of the small awls on the bench, maybe this is the answer?
Caddisfly, Chinese called stone moths, common names for adult forptera, and larvae called stone silkworms. Stone moths resemble moths with short hairs on their bodies and wings. The antennae are long and filamentous. The mouthpiece is chewable, but does not have a chewing function. The larval stone silkworm lives in water, can spit silk and grass stems into tubes, live in it, prefer colder and non-polluted waters, its ecological adaptability is relatively weak, and it is a good indicator of the degree of pollution of water flow. The developmental type is completely metamorphosed. More than 12,000 are known worldwide (this paragraph is excerpted from Wikipedia.) Generally speaking, Wikipedia's Chinese are also too simple, who should blame this? Do you complain about Baidu Encyclopedia? Huh).
Although called stone moths, caddisfly is not a moth or a butterfly, the latter two belonging to lepidoptera. The main differences between them are shown in the table below
Table 1. The main difference between Pterophora and Lepidoptera
eye
Trichoptera
Lepidoptera
evolve
Ancient populations
Probably evolved from the order Tricera
wing
For the butterfly's lepidy wings, please refer to the butterfly body surface microscopic photograph
habitat
In the water
Land
antenna
Life cycle of stone moths: Larvae are gills, live underwater for most of their lives, and have only a few weeks to complete the task of reproducing offspring after metamorphosis into adults.
The "marriage flying" mating party of stone moth adults is unprecedented!
The name stone moth comes from the fact that most species of larvae collect debris from their surroundings to build a "back shell" when they live underwater (some of them are basically based on the silk they spit out to form a network structure fixed in a certain place, see figure below).
Since it is to protect the weak body, hard stone is preferred. Of course, "building materials" can also be flexible and diverse.
It can be like this:
Or something like this:
And this:
such:
Let's take a group show:
Stone moths are no stranger to anglers, and baits that mimic stone moths or ephemera are popular:
Let's talk about art
This assembly skill of stone moth larvae has aroused interest. Previously, the author introduced the use of bees to engage in artistic creation (industrious bees, Art of the Bee http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA5MzQ1MjUxOQ==&mid=203995066&idx=1&sn=0971861a7edccc3d9b70c4587fd79df7&scene=4#wechat_redirect), This time, let's see what artists do with stone moths.
Hubert Duprat of France has been feeding his own stone moth larvae since the 1980s, with the exception of gold and silver jewelry in the water tank. The baby worms have no choice but to "pile up gold and silver" to create.
Another artist is from the United States. Kathy Kyle stumbled upon this magical "artist" because her ex-husband studied stone moths. She founded Wildscape Jewelry in 1995 to produce a line of jewelry made from stone moth larvae:
The story seems to end here, but the careful reader should find that the "little awl" mentioned by the author at the beginning lives on land, and the larvae of the stone moth live underwater... This one... Oh, well, I admit it's wrong. The correct answer is this little thing:
It is said that one day, the author showed the above video to the family leader on a whim, and said: Look at the magical worms I found! I didn't think that people would throw disdainful glances: What is so fresh about this?
Bag worms, some in my hometown, when I was a child, I still played with them...
Bagworm moth - Coatworm, debt avoidant moth (or bag moth, bag moth, bag moth) is a real moth, similar to the stone moth introduced earlier, the larvae also have the habit of collecting objects to "build a house":
This "disguise" is really good!
The magic is that after a variety of female coatworms mature, they do not transform into moths, but shrink in the "boudoir" to wait for their lovers, and then perform "aerial ballet":
Finally, there is a question: since stone moths can "artistic creation", what about debt avoidance moths? The answer is yes.
Aki Inomata Crush from Japan has a unique way of cutting fashion into pieces for the clothing bugs to "build a house":
Video proof:
This incident taught me that instead of spending ten hours searching the Internet for answers, it is better to accept the wife's contempt for a minute faster.
P.S. Aki loves interacting with creatures, and she has made transparent "houses" for hermit crabs: