Rat Woman / Popular Science
When I was a child living in a bungalow, I would often run out of the bricks in the yard and run out of a few gray worms from below, with many legs but not too fast. Then poke its body with a small branch, and it will instantly form itself into a ball, round like a small watermelon, so we call it "watermelon worm". Adults say that this thing lives in a dark and damp place, so it is called a tide worm. Later moved to the building to live, the health conditions have been greatly improved, there is no longer the trouble of growing mushrooms on the chopsticks, in addition to the cockroaches that have never been seen before, only seen in the bathroom a few times, but also feel very kind.
Tide worms are still rat women
Science
Regardless of whether it is called a tide worm or a rat woman, in short, it is an insect under the order of equal foot. What is isopod, look at its scientific name "Isopoda", which is derived from the Greek foot and the equivalent of two words spelled together. In the last century, scholars divided the suborder Hysteroids into two families, the bacteriophageae that can curl into balls is called rat gynecology, and the non-rolled into balls is the Hysteraceae. Later, as the division of families was gradually perfected, they were split into several families. So the names are messy. The most common thing in our family should be a rough rat woman. The latest information shows that the official Chinese given in the "Zoology of Hebei" is called: ordinary roll beetle. A little dizzy, it doesn't matter, then let's call it a tide worm.
I come from the sea
Speaking of the tide word for tide insect, it means wet, that is, it likes to live in places with water. Why? Because people's relatives live in the sea! The ancestors of isopods also lived in the oceans unsurprisingly, and with a long evolutionary process, one of the taxa landed on land to live, which is called terrestrial isopoda, and the representative of this is what we call the tide insect. There are now about 5,000 species in the isopod world, varying in size, most of which still live in the ocean. Their common feature is seven pairs of feet, wearing armor, a pair of small eyes, don't look at the eyes small, but still compound eyes. When in danger, the body can be curled up, but some species can completely form a ball, and most of them cannot be completely closed.
Don't cheat Alto small, it brother is "Audi"
There was once a classic joke that said: Don't bully Alto Small (a mini car owned by a car brand), it is called Audi (a medium and large car under a luxury car brand). And in the world of isosquat purpose this is a real thing. The relatives in the sea of rat women are bigger than one, and if one day they will crawl out of the sea en masse to support the little brothers on land, and they can definitely scare people to death. The rat woman with a length of millimeters has a big brother who can reach up to 40 cm in the sea, the great king has a footed insect, also known as a giant deep water lice. Isopoda, the family Pteropodidae, more than 20 species worldwide, inhabit the cold deep seas of the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. If you have no idea of its length, go to the bathroom at home and look at the 30X30 porcelain wall on the wall, and imagine a tidal insect that is longer than it lying on it. In Japan, there is a mobile phone case made of the image of the king's foot worm, which is basically a 1:1 ratio, almost 1200 yuan or so. Let's not talk about the price, let's just say that if you pull out this big tide bug on the subway and say "Hey" to it, think about that picture, you deserve it!
If the Great King's Foot worm shocks you with its huge size, then the other relative of the rat woman can make you feel the fear from the deep sea even more. The shrunken-headed fish lice, also from isopod order, has a similar appearance to other relatives, but its lifestyle is really outrageous. Although the body length is only about 5cm, it will parasitize on the tongue of the fish, mainly by sucking blood, and after the fish's tongue shrinks, it will become the new tongue of the fish, achieving seamless connection and successfully changing a part for the fish. It will also do everything that the tongue should do for the fish, without further damage to the fish, and will accompany it to live with the fish. There was once a very red song that sang: You are my eyes, taking me through the changes of the four seasons. If you let the fish sing, it will definitely be changed to: You are my tongue, tasting all the sour, sweet and bittersweet for me.
How about growing like this?
"How can it be good" is "Can I eat it?" Is it tasty? How to eat? The abbreviation describes the foodie spirit that often encounters unknown species when the first reaction is not to find out, but to think about whether you can eat or not. But in any case, when you face the rat woman and her relatives, you will not have such thoughts. But you are wrong, they are "how can they be good"! The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that rat women are acidic and cool, and have the effects of asthma, diuresis, detoxification, pain relief and sedation; external use has a foaming effect and can be used to treat asthma, unfavorable urination and sores, long malaria cold fever and other symptoms. The key here is "diuresis". But you must know that the rat woman herself does not pee, the nitrogen in her body is emitted in the form of ammonia, and a non-peeing bug can actually diuretic, how is this researched. Oh, and because of the above characteristics, if you encounter a group of tide bugs, it is normal to smell a little unfriendly.
The Dow's deep water lice, which also come from the deep sea like the King's Foot worm and the Shrunken Head Fish Lice, have long been fried and steamed several times by the Japanese people who love cooking. The restaurant at the Fun Aquarium in Chinatown, Yokohama, Japan, has launched a dish of fried king pedis, which is actually used in this way, which is very similar to its length, but the body length is generally 10-15cm. Although it sells like horror, according to the tasters, the taste is not bad, much like the taste of shrimp. It is not surprising that the good guys are all crustacean creatures, and they are not far from crabs and shrimp. What is even more bizarre is that the Japanese government once mailed five Dow's deep water lice to the Japanese citizens as a tax refund, and said that fried or raised please mr. self-defecation.
Author:Luo Hao
Editor, Proofreader: Wei Yao