I don't know if you have done any stupid and cute things when you were a child, Xiaobian has two things that are particularly impressive: after poking the honeycomb and lying down to pretend to die, because I heard my friends say that the wasps do not bite dead people, in fact, they were bitten full of bags; there was a time when I saw a plant that looked like a "enoki mushroom" by the creek, reached out to grab it, and screamed in pain, and after many years I learned that it was not a plant, it was an insect - a possum bug.
Only a portion of the "semi-finished" eggs hatched
As soon as we hear this name, it is easy to think of the bug carrying the child, in fact, the possum bug is not a kind, but a family, the possum bug family. This Corey also has the kind of large ferocity that does not carry children, the scientific name is Tian Turtle, also known as "Osmanthus Cicada", and the example of carrying children is called "Nichirene Bug", which is the scientific name, not dirty words.
Well-deserved "good dad"
Fewer than 150 of the known insect species specialize in the care of offspring by males, more than 90% of which are insects of the possum bug family. Most of the other father's roles are more awkward, some "check no father" (parthenogenesis), some "can be dispensed with" (that is, parthenogenesis can also have sexual reproduction), more "like a father and not a father" (false fertilization, there is no genetic inheritance), and some male insects have slipped away after mating, compared to the negative bug is really a model for a good father.
Rooted in the old iron, there is now the "widowed parenting"
The family Possum bugs can be divided into the subfamily Possum bugs and the subfamily Of the field turtle, which are large aquatic beetles. There are 24 species in the subfamily Turtle, of which 5 species have been identified by males as the responsibility of caring for their offspring. Possum bugs are common aquatic insects in rice fields and ponds in the past, because males often carry a bunch of eggs on their forewings, and some even carry small nymphs that have recently hatched, so they are called "possum bugs".
The back seems to be covered with succulents
Male possum bugs are large, ferocious and abnormal, and undertake the usual predation tasks, while female possum bugs are relatively small, not good at fighting, usually as long as they lie on the back of the "husband", they can "eat and open their mouths" without effort, and live a life like a young grandmother. When the female possum bug lays eggs, it rides on the flat and wide back of the male possum bug and lays eggs on the back of the male possum bug, while it also secretes a large amount of mucus to adhere the egg to the back of the male possum bug. After laying eggs, the female possum bugs will leave, but they will soon die. Since then, the male possum bug has fully taken on the difficult task of caring for these little lives.
Newly hatched larvae
In order to ensure the smooth hatching of the eggs on the back, the male possum bugs are painstaking and conscientious. First of all, you can't go to the water that is too cold, and you must rely on the heat generated in your own body to create a suitable temperature. At the same time, the eggs on the back also need to absorb oxygen, can not completely immerse the eggs in the water, so the male possum bugs tirelessly move up and down the ground to ensure that oxygen is provided to the eggs, while letting the water splash on the eggs from time to time, making it moist and ensuring the normal development of the eggs. After hatching, the possum bug larvae also lie on the back of the father for a period of time, until they grow up slightly and have the ability to live independently, and the male possum bugs that are fathers will up the pair of long hind feet and skillfully brush down the hatched children, so that they can smoothly enter the water and make a living for themselves. The lifespan of the male negative bug is also over.
The lurking killer in the water, the horizontal knife general
The possum bug is not a weak and deceitful lord, the ferocity is simply outrageous, is an authentic meat eater, like to stay in the water grass dense, dead branches and leaves floating in the ponds and rivers on the surface of the water, feeding on small fish, shrimp, small tadpoles. When encountering prey, the possum bug will be very careful, aiming and holding it horizontally with its forelimbs, flat like a sickle, stabbing into the body to inject digestive juice to death, or directly sucking body fluids, but generally not eating the meat of the prey.
Typically represented by field turtles, in the wild, they are particularly fond of biting people's toes, so in some places they have "toe-biting insects". It is said that the pain index of bullet ant bites is more serious than the tenth degree of childbirth pain, and the pain caused by a single bite of a field turtle is probably second only to that of bullet ants. So try not to provoke them as much as possible. Because the digestive juice of the turtle can make the muscles digest, and there is no antidote for the time being, you will never forget, there will be no other life danger, don't worry too much.
Xiaobian always has some doubts in his heart, the male negative bug is also a father and a mother to raise offspring, in case it is not their own is not a pity? How does it recognize that the eggs laid by the female opossum bugs on their backs are their own offspring, not the old king next door? Is the possum bug monogamous?