People stay in the house
"People staying in the hands" is protection: protecting plants, protecting green, protecting nature, protecting life?
MAY BE! What we prefer to protect is your heart that loves to read and love nature.
——The official micro-platform of the Journal of Plant Protection
We know that the natural world is very cruel, fierce competition, survival is not easy, insects want to live a smooth life to the end, must firmly remember "do not easily trust others." But in order to survive, they have learned to deceive and do whatever they want, and the ants have unconsciously fallen into one deception after another.
Imitating you is to eat you
When it comes to ants, we all know that they have a high degree of sociality, a clear division of labor, unity and cooperation, and "force", so in order to save their lives, insects imitating ants have become a "trend", wearing ant suits, imitating ant steps, and walking at the forefront of fashion.
An ant bee in a coat
Can you guess it's a bug?
Ant-beetles
If the worms above imitate ants to protect themselves, then the guys below are a bit sinister.
Above: Ant Spider Below: Ant
Antmimicking spiders of the genus Myrmarachne are masters of imitating ants, with a shrunken abdomen similar to that of ants, and they also lift and swing the first pair of feet during activity, resembling ant antennae.
Tips: Spiders are not insects!
However, their efforts to imitate ants are deliberate. Ant spiders are carnivores, and poor ants are on their hunting lists. When an ant spider touches an ant, it excitedly goes to touch the "tentacles" to say hello, while the silly ant unsuspectingly allows it to approach and then whimpers for its life.
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Tempting you is to eat you
Many of the bugs in the family Reduviidae are natural killers, swift and unkind. One of them, the Ptilocnemus bug hunter, is a natural enemy of ants.
The hind feet of these bug hunters have many hairs, commonly known in English as feather-legged bugs. They rely on waving these two hairy hind feet to attract the attention of the ants.
Come, come, come
Moreover, these bug hunters not only "tease" ants in their movements, but also have glandular structures in their abdomen that emit pheromones that are used to attract and paralyze ants. Under the double temptation, it is difficult for ants to think of being deceived.
When the ants follow the smell, the bug hunters patiently stay where they are, while the ants will wander back and forth near them or even climb onto the bug hunters to find the source of the taste.
This is the rhythm of death!
Later, the patient hunter finds that the time is ripe, it will lift its body, exposing its abdomen, and the ant will not hesitate to put its head to its abdomen, at which point the bug will insert the mouthpiece into the ant and begin to enjoy the food delivered to the door.
The ant holding the wrong baby
There are many "lazy mothers" in the worms, who are only responsible for having children but not raising them. This beautiful white-gray butterfly Phengaris arion is a typical representative, so how should young babies survive?
Don't worry, they found a dutiful babysitter for themselves—a red ant, Myrmica sabuleti. These larvae secrete pheromones similar to those of ant larvae, and when ants pass by, they will immediately take them back to the nest when they find that the baby larvae are left outside.
Bring me home
In this way, the larvae successfully mixed into the ants, and when the ants are fed, they will also make a "begging" sound similar to the ant larvae, which is really a trick to eat and drink.
Hey, there's the son of the old king next door in the middle
The larvae of these gray butterflies thrive under the careful care of the ants, pupate into butterflies, pat their butts and leave.
Borrow your house to live in
The stick insects Expressosoma tiaratum have exquisite camouflage skills, and their eggs imitate the seeds very well, just as the so-called education should start from the doll!
When female stick insects lay eggs, they cause the eggs to fall to the ground.
And the top of these eggs will have a "small lid" made up of fat and other organic compounds, which is exactly what ants like to eat. When ants that go out in search of food pass by, they happily move home as seeds of plants.
After the small lid on the egg is eaten, it will not cause much damage to the egg, and they will stay in the nest of the ants with peace of mind, waiting for the larvae to hatch.
Slipped, slipped, saved a rent, and came with a bunch of bodyguards
At last
Can only say,
Ant life is difficult,
Do it and cherish it!