Listen to the birds in the spring, listen to the cicadas in the summer, listen to the insects in the autumn, and listen to the snow in the winter. Listening to the sound of chess in the daytime, listening to the sound of the whistle under the moon, listening to the sound of the pine wind in the mountains, and listening to the sound of the water, Fang is not vain in this life.
—— "Shadow of Dreams" Qing Dynasty Zhang Chao.
The insects mentioned above mostly refer to insects.
Insects are a huge family, accounting for more than 70% of the earth's species, as long as there are places where organisms appear, except at sea, insects can almost all travel unimpeded.
These insects all prefer to move day and night.
Why do they like to be active after nightfall?
How do insects survive in the dark of night?
What powerful skills do they have to defend themselves against themselves?
Songbirds are the main object of autumn night viewing.
With the accumulation of experience in watching last night, everyone obviously quickly entered the state, so this night to see a lot more than the last time, in just one and a half hours, almost every short walk, you will find a variety of small creatures, compared to yesterday's efficiency is still relatively high.
Let's go, today we will walk into another sub-park of the Hangzhou Botanical Garden, along the way croaking frogs and hissing insects.
We take flashlights and follow the sound — but we often still can't see anything.
Looking at the elven kingdom at night requires your patience, your persistence, your careful observation, and your thorough listening.
<h1>Why do insects like to lie diurnal and nocturnal? </h1>
This has a lot to do with avoiding their predators. Because the vast majority of insects' natural enemies are birds, in order to survive, minimize the chance of meeting natural enemies.
<h1>Why do you like to be active after nightfall? </h1>
Insects hide during the day to avoid predators. At night, in order to survive, it is necessary to come out to hunt, and in order to reproduce offspring, it is necessary to come out to court and marry.
<h1>How do insects survive in the dark of night? </h1>
The way most insects do this is to make themselves look similar to their surroundings. With this similarity, they can be integrated into the surrounding environment and are not easy to find.
At nightfall, the worm war quietly staged.
<h1>What powerful skills do they have to defend themselves against themselves? </h1>
Slugs, when threatened, secrete milky white experience, sticky, and will stick to each other.
Parasitic wasps and parasitic thorns
Frogs are everywhere, but they are secretive by nature and like to hide in the shadows to observe the world around them.
Tadpoles breathe in their gills, and after growing legs, their gills will slowly degenerate and be replaced by lung breathing.
The web is the heaven and earth of the spider.
It is a safe haven for it to hide from dangers, a home to shelter from the rain and the sun, a table to eat on the spot after hunting, a place to marry and mate, and to breed offspring.
Of course, not all spiders weave webs, but they can be found on the water, in caves, and under the leaves between flowers.
The crab spider is a spider that does not need a web to prey on
Blind spiders are not spiders, and ticks are actually close relatives
Cunning spiders, little fishing experts
The first tail of the gecko has bones, but what grows after it is broken is a fleshy tail, which has no bones inside.
Naturally, there are many excellent musicians - cicadas, crickets, locusts, crickets.
Some of the sounds of the songbirds are actually made by the friction of their wings. And the people who make the noise are mostly males. In order to attract females, mating and reproduction are completed.
In the process of night watching we gradually eliminate self-fear, for example
Afraid of the night, afraid of caterpillars, afraid of toads, afraid of spiders, afraid of snakes...
You'll really suddenly find yourself afraid of a lot of things.
When we walk into the night,
All the things that we were originally afraid of were actually what we wanted to meet and what we were afraid to encounter.
We know that when night falls, the nocturnal insects will come out to move, we want to meet all kinds of insects, we want to see frogs hugging each other, we want to see spiders preying, we want to see ants marching, we want to see golden cicadas shed their shells...
We want to observe everything in nature, and we want it to be under our control.
Come on! First of all, put down the tedious things first, bring a flashlight, bring a curious heart, go deep into nature, explore, discover, and resonate with nature, thank you for the beauty of life, and have a good meeting with nature.
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I am Mulan, a mom of two and a nature museum enthusiast. Like to lead children to get close to nature, close to nature, so as to understand nature, protect nature, and be with nature, in awe, with gratitude.