It has to be said that nature is really a natural artist, and the creatures they create have amazing beauty. The mountains, rivers and seas are magnificent, even a small insect, nature will also make it a unique style - horned cicada
"Hat" collector
The name of the horned cicada can actually make people know that it must be a long horn, but you may wonder that many insects have antennae, which is not very magical, and why can the horned cicada be named after the characteristic of the horn? In fact, when you see what it looks like, you will know.
Horned cicadas, which can also be called "stingrays", are very diverse, each with different horns, some of which are like a tree with no leaves and burned on its head. Some are like a colorful magic hat, some are like the horns of Maleficent in Sleeping Curse, and some are like blue magnets. In short, their horns are different in shape, delicate and small. There are many special kinds of horns, which I will not dwell on here.
The "horns" are beautiful and practical
Their delicate and beautiful horns are not for good looks, but for great use. Horned cicadas generally grow on trees, and when they rest on the trunk, their "hats" will have "magic". This "magic" makes them look like dead trunks. One of them is a type of horned cicada, called the three-spined horned cicada, and they are very powerful. When they stay on a tree with thorns, they place the horns on their heads in one direction with the thorns. The naked eye looks at the past as it is, just like the real thing, to the point of being false and real. What's even more amazing is that when a certain number of horned cicadas are stopped on a tree at the same time, they do not report to the group for warmth, and they are lined up one by one at a suitable distance, like real branches. Therefore, it seems that their horns are not only beautiful, but also protect themselves.
Will be a little "art of war"
When you have a more powerful predator, you need to use your ingenuity to think of ways to protect yourself. The horned cicada is one of the representatives of "high intelligence". Their combat effectiveness is weak, although they have a strong camouflage power, but once they are discovered, the end is very tragic. So they came up with a way to ally with the ant family. However, their alliance is conditional, and the horned cicada can eat the sap of the tree and then excrete the part of the body that it feels unwanted and excess, and the dripping liquid is sweet, called honeydew. Ants want to eat honeydew from horned cicadas. The condition is to protect the life safety of the horned cicada.
Speaking of which, is it a great admiration for nature's ability to create only a small insect and handle the details so well! If you still want to know more about the horned cicada, or the artistic creation of nature, then open the Today's Headline App, enter "Yerba Buena Corner" in the top search bar and click directly on the search, and then click on the avatar to enter the home page of Yerba Buena Corner to watch more interesting articles.