When we are neither able to resist nor explain many natural phenomena, we create gods to fulfill their respective duties to satisfy our own beliefs, including scorpions that are deified because they are terrible.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > scorpion's "marriage"</h1>
Although people have seen many scorpions in one place, they will not see two scorpions living under the same stone slab. More specifically, when there are two scorpions under the slate, one of them must be eating the other.
And this brutal and ferocious "hermit" will end their wedding in this way. Some entomologists want to observe scorpions by building a scorpion home that simulates the ecology of wild scorpions. If necessary, a simple small mesh sand tank can also be built in the laboratory. Researchers can observe the daily behavior of these lonely and wild gentlemen in this ideally designed scorpion home.
April and May are the mating periods for scorpions. At this time, their appetite is very large, from dieting to eating and drinking, showing a wolf-eating posture. Some people often find scorpions devouring their own kind under the tiles on a regular basis, just like catching ordinary prey. The whole body of the same kind is chewed and swallowed. After a whole eclipse, only the tail gets stuck in the scorpion's throat, and after a few days it is reluctant to spit it out. Maybe the smell of the poison bag on the tip of the tail really doesn't fit the taste of the diners.
There are 25 residents living in spacious and bright glass houses. Each occupies a tile, and the bow is covered in a dome-like shape. Usually in the middle of April, the residents of the "Glass Palace" feel the arrival of another spring. At dusk, the glass palace becomes lively. A swarm of scorpions soon formed on the sand illuminated by the lights near the curtains. Lonely pedestrians everywhere, attracted by the lights, left the darkness and ran into the soft and warm lights. You see, as some of the newcomers joined the team one by one, some scorpions who had been in the gang abandoned the game and returned to the dark to rest. After a while, they came to the front desk with great joy, and the scene presented a noisy carnival.
The atmosphere is inviting. You can see the following scenario. A serious scorpion, just coming out of the darkness. Immediately, he trotted briskly in pursuit, jumped up quickly and quickly, made a sliding motion, and happily joined the scorpion swarm under the light. They had hoped to make friends, but as soon as they touched someone else's finger, they turned and ran away, as if they were afraid of each other; other scorpions entangled with their partners were also afraid to run away. They hid in the darkness, calmed down, stared for a moment, felt as if they were all right, and then slowly returned.
The scene was a bit chaotic from time to time. Some gentlemen stomped on it, some bumped into each other. Then there's a slap incident, which is to slap the other person with the tail. It was believed that the slap was harmless because no poison needles were used. It's a bit like people sometimes swinging their fists or patting each other on the shoulder. Sometimes the scorpion will pose in a strange pose. Two "warriors" hold the pliers with their foreheads against their foreheads. They rely on their upper bodies to support their lower bodies, making them look like a "tree of friendship." As a result, eight white breathing bags on their chests were exposed to people. The two vertical tails straightened out, but also touched each other, rubbing gently. The tips of the tail are connected and separated again and again, hooked together from time to time. Suddenly, the tree of friendship fell. The pyramid of friendship also collapsed.
Why are the postures of these two scorpions so strange? It doesn't look like a struggle between opposing sides. The contact between the two seems to be calm! Subsequent observations finally made it clear that they were flirting. To express their love, the scorpions stand upside down on a straight tree.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > three steps to love</h1>
In the midst of the scramble of scorpions, people gradually saw the direction. That is, all kinds of chaotic small actions around the main vein; different plots make up a main theme: the love trilogy.
A male scorpion gleefully passes through a swarm of scorpions and encounters a female scorpion, which is the opposite-sex partner it is looking for. The other didn't refuse, so the couple began to explore their love game. Their foreheads are pressed against their foreheads, and two pairs of pliers are hooked together. The tail swings violently while standing upright. The tips of the tails are hooked together and slowly rubbing against each other, giving a feeling of gentle contact. This is the phenomenon of the "tree of friendship" or the "pyramid of love" mentioned earlier. While the tree of friendship may fall down again and again, the two scorpions may leave in a hurry without results, which is just a fun act. But this shows that there are good feelings between the scorpions. When the circumstances are right, they may come together again and continue the love game. In addition, the observation also suggests that marriage and mating between scorpions generally go through this game process of "forming a pyramid of love".
After playing the love pyramid game, a pair of scorpions will start walking if they do not quickly disperse. This walk is a love game, essentially the beginning of the mating process for male and female scorpions to enter. At this time, the scorpion is excited by the combination of the ambient atmosphere (temperature, air ionization discharge, ozone production and other odor factors) and hormone levels in the body, and actively seeks stimulation. The male scorpion stretches out a pair of pliers to hold the female scorpion's pliers, which is a bit like two people holding each other's hands and starting to walk. The male scorpion walks backwards in front, and the female is pulled behind. After a long walk, he turned and walked back. He was still led by male scorpions and the route was still the same. Sometimes they also walk and stop, but the male scorpion's footsteps are still quietly grasping the ground, as if they are still loosening the path they have traveled.
The scorpion is emotionally aroused under the action of the internal and external environment, and walks hand in hand. The thrill of love makes the excited and excited scorpion crazy and intoxicated. The soil on the sidewalk was already loose enough. At this point, the male scorpion slows down, gradually lowering the anterior abdomen, bringing the reproductive cone close to the ground, expelling a thin pod from the genital foramen and inserting it obliquely into the loose sediment. When the female scorpion reaches the right position, it will slowly pull forward and then gently press backwards and downwards. The elongated sperm pod is divided into two parts from the middle crease, and the forked half of the upper end is gently inserted into the reproductive cavity of the female scorpion. When sperm enter the reproductive cavity of a female scorpion, the sperm pods fall off automatically.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > the crystallization of scorpion love</h1>
Scorpions generally lay their eggs at the end of July on a hot day. Female scorpions usually lay about 40 eggs overnight. The little scorpion was compressed like a grain of rice, but it was exactly a young scorpion. The black spots on the forehead are the eyes, the tail is close to the abdomen, a small pair of pliers are folded on the chest, and the feet on both sides are close to the body. In this way, the appearance of the eggs is relatively smooth, there is no bump sensation, suitable for smooth passage through the spawning channel of the female scorpion. Small scorpions hatch in their eggs before they are born, so they belong to the egg-fetal species like sharks. This way of birth was conceived as early as the distant geological age of the Carboniferous Period of the Paleozoic Era, when the first terrestrial scorpion appeared.
It is well known that young birds can peck at eggshells and come into the world on their own, because the young have a short-term hard cocoon on the tip of their beak that can be used as a pickaxe for beckoning. The baby goats rely on their mothers to lick the membranes off with the tip of their tongues in order to free themselves from their swaddling. It can be seen that some young scorpions stuck to the mucus shake slightly on the membrane that has torn a crack, but they cannot break free. It is up to the female scorpion to continue to bite through and peel off the membrane with her mouth to complete the delivery. Here we are fortunate to see a very wonderful and magnificent scene in the course of life: the female scorpion gently bites the capsule outside the egg with the tip of her large jaw, completely tears, peels and swallows into the abdomen, and then carefully peels and removes all obstacles to the surface of the newborn's body, just as the female cat gently and delicately peels off and swallows the membrane. You should know that the tools used by female scorpions are so hard and heavy, and the skin of young scorpions is so soft at this time. However, with maternal instincts, they lift weights as light as feathers to accomplish this delicate maneuver without spraining or scraping the body of the juvenile scorpion. How can this not be surprising? The small scorpion that removes the membrane is clean, white throughout, and can generally reach 9 mm from beginning to end.
One by one, they climbed onto the back of the mother scorpion, who laid her pincers flat on the ground to greet the children. The young scorpions were tightly arranged on their backs, forming a white cloak. If people use a straw stick to move the scorpion, it will fall not far away. The female scorpion proudly stayed where she was, sticking out only a pair of pliers. This little thing moved. After a while, he reached out and took his mother's outstretched hand and climbed up quickly to rejoin the brothers. Increase the intensity of the teasing, so that several small scorpions fall at the same time. After hesitating for a moment, the little scorpion began to walk in an unknown direction. The female scorpion felt that the situation was a bit serious and had to intervene. It walked forward, waving its limbs with two pliers, and gently approached the ground like an arm, kidnapping the lost child.
We know that tarantula moms often take her kids for walks around, but don't expect our scorpion moms to do such rude things. After becoming a mother, scorpions did not go out for a long time. Even though other scorpions walk at night, it still locks itself in the home, does not consider food, and devotes itself to caring for the child until the little scorpion completes its metamorphosis, grows up, and lives independently without its mother.