Introduction: Bees are a common small insect in our lives, because they can produce honey, they are liked by many friends, but also because bees have poisonous stinging needles, many friends in life are afraid of bees. Although bees look like cute little poisons in many friends, bees also have their own natural enemies, in addition to those who secretly endanger bees, there are also some who openly attack bees, such as the common wasps in our lives are a major enemy of bees. In fact, in addition to wasps, spiders, dragonflies, toads, etc. are common natural enemies of bees, and in the bees in addition to wasps, mud bees are more harmful to the life of bees, mud bees are not only good at attacking bees, but also good at feeding mud bee larvae live bees, some species of mud bees have their own unique ways, such as today's bee tribe to share with friends the big-headed mud bees, known as the cold-blooded swordsman in the bees, specializing in the bees 1 square millimeter of death pit, as long as the "sword", the bees will die.
<h1>First, the "fresh" bee method of mud bees</h1>
Some species of mud bees can be anesthetized and stored in their nests, because the bees are only anesthetized by the venom of the mud bees, the bees often need a few days to die, so these bees are "kept fresh" by the venom of the mud bees, so that the mud bee larvae can eat fresh bee meat at any time.
<h1>Second, the method of attacking bees by large mud bees</h1>
There is actually very little information about the method of the mud bee attacking the bees, so many friends' understanding of the mud bees is stuck in the mud bees to store the bees to feed the larvae, but there is an entomologist who has made a detailed observation of the behavior of the big mud bees to catch the bees, he is the famous French entomologist Fabre, according to Fabre's observations, the big mud bees attack the bees in two ways:
First: face-to-face attack: when the face-to-face attack bees are six feet to the sky, the big-headed mud bees press on the bees, and the bees form a face-to-face attack method, the big-headed mud bees will control the bees with six legs, constantly tearing the bees' necks, while the abdomen is also groping on the bee's body, but it will not be needled, but the sting needle will only be needled when it touches the neck of the bee, once the needle is dropped, the bee will soon lose consciousness, and this loss of consciousness is not anesthesia, but direct death.
Second: upright attack: When attacking upright, the big-headed mud bee holds the bee with 4 feet, and also forms a face-to-face form with the bee, the whole process is still in preparation for the needle of the large mud bee, until the big mud bee can attack the neck of the bee when the big mud bee will be needled, the result of the needle is also the bee quickly dead.
<h1>Why do large mud bees only attack bee necks? </h1>
In fact, through the above two attack methods, many friends are not difficult to find that the big-headed mud bee can actually attack the bee's abdomen or other places, even if it can't, it can also be stabbed to death with a few random needles, but it is obvious that the big-headed mud bee does not do that. In the title, the bee tribe uses cold-blooded swordsmen to describe the big-headed mud bee, in fact, this is not a waste of time, the big-headed mud bee not only attacks the neck of the bee, but also only attacks a small white dot of 1 square millimeter on the neck of the bee.
According to Fabre's dissection, the bee neck has a 1 square millimeter of small white dot, the big head mud bee attacked the bee when it gave up other positions to attack only this small white spot, it can be said that this is a dead hole of the bee, as long as it is pierced by the stinging needle of the big head mud bee, the bee will undoubtedly die, and it is a very quick death.
So why is this little white dot a bee's death pit? Because this small white dot is connected to the ganglia of the bee's neck, once stabbed, all the organs of the bee's head immediately stop working, so the way the big-headed mud bee attacks the bee is not an anesthesia behavior, but an assassination behavior, this assassination accuracy is superb and the complexity of choosing the location of the assassination is not comparable to the general insect fight, just as the wasp will tear the bee into pieces when it attacks the bee, but the big-headed mud bee can keep the bee intact and let the bee die. The requirements for this kind of swordsmanship can be quite high.
If the above attack method is full of wisdom, then it is even more incomprehensible how the big-headed mud bee knows that the bee has a dead hole in the neck, and the big-headed mud bee will only be far more simple than just attacking the bee. The big mud bee does not immediately begin to enjoy the bees after killing the bees, but maintains a long defensive state and will not let go of the bees, because the stings remain aggressive for a few minutes after being anesthetized, which the big mud bees seem to be more aware.
<h1>Fourth, the cruel method of eating full of wisdom</h1>
The big-headed mud bee kills the bees just to eat, but when it comes to the eating of the big-headed mud bees, this reflects another kind of wisdom of the big-headed mud bees.
When the big-headed mud bee eats the attacked bee, it is not directly eating the bee carcass, but eating the nectar of the bee, the big-headed mud bee squeezes out the nectar in the honey honey stomach by pressing on the bee's body with the abdomen, and then through the kiss of the bee and the wound left by the large-headed mud bee in the bee's neck, it sucks the nectar squeezed out of the honey honey stomach, perhaps this is the reason why the big-headed mud bee must first kill the bee to eat the honey in the belly of the big-headed mud bee.
Bee nectar is extremely valuable to bees, if it is only anesthesia, bees even have a little strength, through the body to control the honey in and out of the sac, obviously the big mud bees are difficult to let the bees discharge the nectar, but the big head mud bee by killing the bees first, let the bee's body loose, so that when feeding, the bee's body has been uncontrollable, let the big head mud bee suck the nectar in the body clean.
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