Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Yang Jing
Watch ants move, ladybugs fight... It's a wonderful time that many people remember from their childhood after school. The obsession and exploration of the microscopic world is the instinctive desire of children. For Gao Yijie, following those inconspicuous insects is both a hobby and a job. In such a state, he was very happy.
Dressed in a black outdoor costume with a long braid tied at the back of his head, Gao Yijie, born in 1996, looks very handsome, and his personality is a bit introverted, he talks about his favorite insects and immediately gushes.
For the fascination with insects, Gao Yijie started from high school. Gao Yijie is a native of Shaoxing, and once he liked it after seeing him raise beetles in a classmate's home, he went into the "pit". From larvae to adults, Bibi has the biggest beetle, which is a happy time after busy school in high school, "There are many types of beetles, each size is different. The largest beetles can grow up to 18 centimeters, but they live in the tropics, and I have never raised the largest beetle. I mainly raise spade armor in the surrounding area, the largest individual is not large, I raised to about 9 centimeters long. ”
After graduating, most of his classmates went to the relevant design units, but by chance, he met the Hangzhou Dadiye Nature School, which advocates nature education classes, during his internship in Tianmu Mountain, and later became a famous insect course design teacher.
Find insects, photograph insects, make specimens, teach children on weekends or holidays... Staying in the mountains all day, no entertainment, boring life in the eyes of others, high school is as sweet as a food. After work, I still soaked in the hobby of following insects, and most of the money I earned was spent on buying shooting equipment.
"Insects a lot of times need to be photographed at night, so I bought a double-headed flash." The backpack contained a SLR camera and multiple lenses, and added two white tentacle-like diffusers, he did not feel hard, "Don't look at insects so small, it is beautiful and interesting to shoot." ”
When organizing activities in the summer, Gao Yijie often takes the children to observe fireflies. Once, when filming, he saw the whole process of fireflies predation and recorded it, "People will think that fireflies are cute and romantic, but they didn't expect that the predation object was snails." When the snail came out of the 'room' on its back, it was 'attacked' in the cold. Fireflies use their palate to inject a paralyzing liquid into the snail's body and then enjoy a 'feast'. ”
Since the beginning of this year, Gao Yijie has photographed more than 10 kinds of butterflies. However, in addition to catching butterflies flying in the wild like other photography enthusiasts, they also raise butterflies to shoot. He first found the larvae from the mountains and then looked for the host plants to feed. From larva to pupae into a butterfly, the entire growth process has not fallen. And what excited him the most was that the moment from pupa to butterfly also made him capture, "Only about 1 minute, it is really difficult to wait, so lucky." ”
Insects are the most prosperous animals in the world, more than all other animal species combined. Although the volume is not large, it plays a large role in the biosphere. Insect-borne flowers need the help of insects to spread pollen. The honey collected by bees is also one of the foods that people like. In some parts of Africa, Southeast Asia and South America, insects are themselves the food of the locals. Of course, some insects can also pose a threat to humans, such as fleas, mosquitoes, flies, or the spreaders of disease.
"It is not rare bugs that deserve attention, those seemingly bland bugs, if you look carefully, will also find many interesting things, ordinary does not mean insignificant, as long as we pay attention, we will find interesting knowledge from it, ignorance often makes us unable to see their value, in fact, the most inconspicuous creatures are indispensable notes that constitute the music of natural life." 」 The writer Fabre expressed this in "Insects", and Gao Yijie said that he felt the same way.
As the temperature rises in the spring, the forest of Tianmu Mountain will become more and more lively. "Those hibernating little animals are waking up and coming alive one after another. Mantises hatch from their egg sheaths, unicorns emerge from the ground, many birds change into beautiful breeding feathers and prepare to pair up to build nests, and then tree frogs begin to lay eggs... In addition to insects, I also observe birds and learn about them by listening to the calls and watching their flight postures. I hope that one day, with my shooting and recording, I will publish a book for these little cuties and let everyone know their world. ”
Observe the notes
fight
The fireflies stabbed the upper jaw into the snail.0 Yes, this "alien" on the snail shell is a firefly, and the larvae of the firefly do not have wings, unlike the well-known fireflies, which will prey on small animals such as snails.
The snail desperately tried to escape, but the firefly's six legs and tail feet clung firmly to the snail's shell and used its palate to inject anesthetic into the snail. The snail's movement gradually slowed down, and most of its body was retracted into its shell, and the firefly immediately plunged its head into it, and it was greeted by a large amount of foam secreted by the snail.
The fireflies did not flinch in the slightest, lying on their shells looking for opportunities. Just then, a large-toothed ant appeared. The big-toothed mammoth ant is a nightmare for many small insects, its upper jaw can open to an exaggerated 180 degrees, and bite at a very fast speed.
The big-toothed ant also climbed onto the snail shell. I thought it would go to war, but it just clicked a few times with its tentacles on it and then stepped back and walked away sadly. It didn't go far either, watching from the sidelines. Only then did I realize that there were two large-toothed ants around me watching the battle. The fireflies ignored them and kept adjusting their posture tentatively.
A wave of birds flew in, and I planted two branches on the edge of the battlefield and went to chase. Ten minutes later. Only the branches of the trees remained, and even the big-toothed ants were gone... Gao Yijie
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