is it the best way to kill insects > <h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right"? Don't worry, nature will help you! </h1>
Do you also see the caterpillar on this picture and think it is a caterpillar egg? I thought the same thing the first time I saw this picture, Superficial! Superficial is always superficial. Only by deeply understanding nature can we better understand all things!
The cocoons of caterpillars and cocoon bees Image source network
At that time, I chose this picture as the cover of an insect pest video because it looked shocking! Densely packed like a cocoon, it stuck to the green caterpillar's body. At first, I thought it was quite inspirational, how difficult it is for caterpillars to conceive so many lives, and to carry the burden of nurturing. Behind this is a more shocking reality, and it is also the magic of nature. A knowledgeable horticulturist or biologist knows that if he sees this, the caterpillar will soon die! Still thinking about how to kill caterpillars? In fact, there is really no need for humans to solve the problem with drugs, nature naturally has its own way, to control pests, there is really nothing comparable to animals, microorganisms and fungi. As long as the ecological circle is balanced, it is the law of natural survival for one thing to drop many things. And when we find that our plants have large-scale insect infestations, it must be a balance disorder, and what we need may not be to kill, but to explore how to return the ecological circle to balance again.
From the moment you start to build an ecological balcony garden, from the very beginning it is also the first reaction to kill insects, to now it is that unless it is flooded, it is necessary to find a way to restore the small ecology after deeply understanding the insects and plants, or to give the plant the best support, so that it can resist on its own, and then time is the most invisible and easy to use insecticide! Because the life cycle of insects is not long, and some like cold, some like hot climates, some like dry, some like wet, that is, changes in the environment will also make bugs disappear automatically.
Gradually, it was discovered that an ecological balcony garden should have insects, microorganisms, birds, and fungi!
Superficial! -> Deep Life with Love = Worth Living Life
Surface - > Deep and loving life = a life worth living! -ONELiving a live
Why do caterpillars live as long as the picture above? Not only that, but they also become "zombie" caterpillars that are controlled by the parasite. When caterpillars are controlled, they automatically turn on mode to protect the cocoon bees' larvae from being eaten by predators. The growth cycle of the cocoon bee is like this, starting from the larva growing on the body or body of the caterpillar, then becoming a pupa and wrapped in the cocoon, then the adult worm breaks out of the cocoon, and the female cocoon bee will continue to find the caterpillar to lay eggs, so that life can continue. And the possessed caterpillars were gloriously sacrificed so that more cocoon bees could live.
How do cocoon bees control caterpillars?
I saw a report that after the small cocoon wasp broke out of the cocoon, foreign researchers cut open the caterpillar and found that there were still some cocoon bee larvae inside the caterpillar who voluntarily sacrificed themselves to control the caterpillar and let other siblings live. I was blown away! This is the love of the insect world, sacrificing oneself only to live better for brothers and sisters.
This is true of insects, let alone people? Sustainability with love! The earth should be a place of love because of understanding, shouldn't it?
This may be why Einstein said:
Only by deeply understanding nature can we better understand everything!