I also photographed it for the first time on a willow tree by Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing. First I saw a scarab fly away from the tree, thinking that there was their nest on the trunk, and when I looked closer, a large black pincer was revealed in the gap in the bark, which I had seen in books, and it was a spade armor. Afraid that it would escape or retract back into the cave, he quickly took two pictures. Then I found a small branch and teased it, and it was deceived and really came out. Silly, the light knows how to use brute force. At the right height, I took a lot of pictures.
The color of pure black, the surface is like the texture of leather, a pair of pliers dangling around, the hole is powerful, and the posture of looking at everything is empty. I once wanted to put my finger next to it as a size reference, but its pliers quickly turned, which had to be clamped by it, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to break open, so I gave up. Later, I checked the information and learned that the difference between this big pliers and the crab was not its claw, but its upper jaw! palate? Right! The piece of your mouth that has teeth. In order to fight, its upper jaw is more and more developed, and it has grown into the current pliers, but it is not used to prey, I also looked closely, it is not convenient to prey. It is specially used to deal with love enemies, that width, just enough to clamp the chest of love enemies, if it is on the tree, clamped, thrown hard, fell off the tree, success. I saw the tips of its six legs, all sharp thorns, grasping the rough bark, a breeze. The tentacles were not long, on either side of the eye, behind the pliers, and were clearly of a secondary position, as if insignificant. The eyes, I couldn't see the pupils, weren't bright, almost like its skin, matte. It seems that there is no need to look at anything, this look, what is there to look at, who to be afraid of, the sky is not afraid, a pair of pliers to walk the rivers and lakes. They evolve specifically for a function, and they are really persistent. In the insect world, there are many such examples.