Cricket is a well-known insect. It lives on the grass, and its sound and residence are very distinctive. Lafontaine, a fable master, once described and praised it in his poems. Another fable writer once said in the voice of a cricket, "How I like my seclusion! If you want to live a happy life, hide here! "
Once I saw crickets rolling their tentacles at the mouth of the cave, with their stomachs facing the shade and their backs facing the sun ... Crickets' caves are usually dug in the grass on the Chaoyang slope. The advantage of this is that the rainwater outside the hole can flow off the slope quickly without directly pouring into the hole. The passage of the cave is about one finger wide and the whole depth is at most nine inches.
Its direction is sometimes tortuous and sometimes straight, trying to adapt to the changes in the terrain. There is a pile of grass in the hole of the cricket, which is to protect the cave from rain, and also to hide the hole and protect the whole cave. Whenever the surroundings are quiet, they will play on the grass at the mouth of the cave.
Cricket caves are not luxurious, but they are not rough. At the end of the cave passage is the bedroom, which is the most spacious and smooth by comparison. The whole cave looks simple, clean and sanitary. The cricket cherishes the house it has worked so hard to build. It doesn't move in spring or winter.
Cricket is the only insect that has a fixed residence and enjoys a peaceful and peaceful life alone. Crickets usually choose a clean and sunny direction as their residence.
Second, the singing of crickets.
In front of me, I introduced the residence and spawning situation of cricket. Here, let's talk about the chirping and mating of crickets. Like other insects, crickets can sing. Crickets sing with simple musical instruments, including shelves, bows and vibrating membranes.
Different from other insects, cricket is right-handed, and its right COLEOPTERA almost covers its left COLEOPTERA. However, its two COLEOPTERA insects have exactly the same structure. Both COLEOPTERA have wide transparent dry film, as thin as white onion skin, which can vibrate and is the place where crickets occur.
There are two wing veins in the middle of the sheath wing. There is a depression between the veins of the two wings, and there are five or six black wrinkles at the gap. These wrinkles form friction arteries, which create conditions for vibration. One of the two wing veins is the bow. It * * * has about 150 serrations, all triangular columns. Even better, it knows the rhythm and adjusts the intensity of the sound as needed.
Can crickets sing when their musical instruments are upside down? My experimental results prove that the answer is yes. But I still don't stop there. I'm going to find the cricket larva and pay attention to the moment when it molts and deforms. At this time, I saw its wings and the Sphinx like a small wrinkled sheet. One day in early May, I finally saw it shed its skin. It threw away the shabby coarse clothes.
Except for the pure white of the sheath wing and the wing wing, the rest of it is chestnut red. When crickets first hatched, their wings and coleopters were small, wrinkled and incomplete. But then the coleoptera will grow up slowly. Later, it was found that the edges of the two sphinxes were connected, and the one on the right was about to cover the sphinxes.
At this time, I gently changed the overlapping order of COLEOPTERA with a grass, and put the COLEOPTERA on the left next to the COLEOPTERA on the right, which succeeded, although sometimes it was not well coordinated.
At about 3 pm that day, the cricket changed from light red to black, so the coleoptile of this cricket grew up and matured under my intervention. Soon it began to play with this bow that its family members had never used before. And its tone and rhythm are normal.
This article is taken from Entomology by Jean-Henri casimir Fabres.
Extended data writing background:
Entomology is a book about insect life, involving dung beetles, ants, Sisyphus worms and so on 100 kinds of insects. In this world, there are about 654.38 billion known insect species, accounting for 5/6 of all known animal species. There are still millions of unknown insects to be discovered and recognized by human beings.
/kloc-In the mid-9th century, after teaching in a school, Fabres observed all kinds of insects in the field with his children, named them and sang praises to them.
When fabrice was 3 1 year-old, he obtained a doctorate in natural science. During this period, he successively created a series of biological works such as Plants and Uncle Paul's Talk on Pests.
1854, Fabres published his observation of arthropods in the French natural science yearbook. Three years later, he published the research results of Metamorphosis of Coleoptera, which impressed his peers with its excellent academic quality and great theoretical significance. 1879, he compiled the first volume of entomology for more than 20 years and finally came out.
1880, Fabres bought an old house with the money he saved. He used the local Provencal language to give the house a nickname-Waste Stone Garden. Year after year, Fables wore a farmer's wool coat and dug around with a sharp pick and a flat shovel, thus an insect paradise was built. He wrote the fruits of his labor into volume after volume of Insects. Until 1907, the tenth volume of entomology came out.
About the author:
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (1823-1915) is a French entomologist and writer. Known by the world as "Homer in the insect world" and "Virgil" in the insect world.
He painted more than 700 pictures of fungi in watercolor, which was deeply appreciated and loved by Provencal poet mistral. He also contributed to the bleaching and dyeing industry and obtained three alizarin patents.