Everyone has eaten taro, but cutting taro is something that everyone doesn't like to do, because the juice of taro will hurt and itch on the skin.
Taro is good after years of domestication, at least it is not dangerous to eat. But there is a close relative of taro, who is highly poisonous all over his body, and this is one of the protagonists we have today: sea yam.
Seaweed (Latin scientific name: Alocasia macrorrhiza (L.) Schott), also known as Drip Guanyin, is a common ornamental plant belonging to the order Anan, the family Alocidae, and the genus Kyanopsis. There's also the familiar calla lily and turtle-backed bamboo in this core.
The most notable feature of the seaweed is the wide and thick leaves, like a huge fan, growing freely and releasing its own vitality.
But if you look closely, some of the leaves will have some very round holes on them, as if they were punched out by a punching machine, which one is so free and runs here to punch the clock?
As mentioned earlier, the seaweed is full of poison, who is so brave that they are willing to eat this poison?
During the day, the seaweed is basically unattended, even the insects that fall on it are few, but at night, the figure of the brave one begins to appear in our field of vision, that is, the anchor Apo fluorescent leaf beetle.
Anchor Apo firefly beetle (scientific name: Aplosonyx ancora), this small beetle is not large, less than a centimeter long, is such a small body full of antidotes?
No, it will also be affected by the toxicity of seaweed, but under the temptation of dry rice, it has found a set of effective and good methods.
When attacked, the potato will transmit the toxin through the leaf vein to the attacked position, putting down the animals that want to eat the potato.
The fluorescent leaf beetle will first bite out a shallow circle of traces on the back of the leaf, so that it will not alarm the potato, but also determine the range of its own feeding.
Then quickly bite off the leaf veins in the circle, cut off the passage of the potato to transport the toxin, and finally enjoy the non-toxic leaf flesh.
In this way, the anchor Apo leaf armor cracked the biochemical defense of the sea potato, they generally haunt at night, and always stay on the back of the leaf, so it is relatively safe.
However, some ye jia are lazy and do not know the principle of shooting a gun to change a place. But fortunately, the vitality of the potato is still very tenacious, even if some leaves are bitten into a sieve, the whole is still very vibrant.
After all, apart from the anchor Apo leaf beetle, no other animals come to eat them.
Summary: There is a way is a world, there is no wonder, there are poisonous plants, there are animals that eat it.
The process of evolution has continued, and various organisms have been adapting to each other, all in the final analysis, for the sake of life.
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