You can write a lot about insects, but you can write a lot. Perhaps these little creatures are one of the favorite subjects of our articles. Today we will talk about some amazing insects. So, before you are the most unusual insects on various grounds!
Which insects have the rarest diet?
Bread grinder
In the photo: Adult specimen of a bread grinder (Drugstore beetle)
First of all, the larvae of a bread grinder are referred to the most voracious creatures. They like hot peppers, lumber, and dry ginger. In addition, they can easily destroy an entire library by absorbing paper, books and glue. They even say that there was a case when one larva bit through a number of books from 27 volumes.
Cork moth
In the photo: Left - an adult, Right - a larva
The existence of cork moles is quite surprising. They lay eggs on corks of bottles of wine. When the larvae appear, they begin to gnaw on the cork, eating it.
Beetle hood
This list also includes such an insect, which can cause not small harm to a person, or rather, his equipment and property. The hood beetle feeds on both wood and the lead sheath of telephone cables. That is why it is better not to leave your cable anywhere, so that later you will not find only its pieces.
Beetle beetle
There are bugs, which, on the contrary, help a person and serve science well. They clean the bones of artifacts in museums, from the remnants of tendons and muscles. They do this job much better than humans and completely free, without expecting anything in return.
What does the world look like through the eyes of insects?
People and insects see everything that happens in completely different ways. Insects have very unusual and complex eyes. The shimmering surface of their eyes looks mosaic, each eye consists of separate fixed eyes, each of which sees a limited picture. In some animal species, the eye consists of 30,000 elements.
Ants are much less fortunate in this regard, since they have mostly underdeveloped eyes, and many are even blind.
In their eyes, the world is like an enlarged mosaic picture made of individual pieces. They practically cannot distinguish the type and shape of objects, but they perfectly see the movement. Many ants have extra eyes on their heads that respond to light.
The most convenient option is flies and dragonflies. Their eyes are located on most of the head, which contributes to a perfect view of 360 degrees and thanks to this they can see the danger from above, below and even behind.
How many insects live?
On average, insects live less than a year, and some can live a little longer.
A housefly can live from 10 to 30 days, and larger mosquitoes - from 10 days to 2 months. Perhaps mosquitoes live longer thanks to daily and nutritious nutrition, so if you do not want the mosquito to chase you for 2 months, protect your skin, wear more closed clothes and try to cover your head in warm weather.
But in winter, flies, mosquitoes or larvae can fall into an inactive state in which they can survive several months of cold weather.
Among insects there are also centenarians:
Cicadas
Among more than 800 species of various cicadas, there is only one (Magicicada septendecim), the females of which are real long-livers in the insect world. Some of them can live up to 17 years. But do not be surprised, most of the time the cicada spends underground, feeding on the substances of the root system of plants. And only the last 5 weeks of life, the cicada spends on the ground and in the air.
Garden ant uterus
In the photo: Mating ants
It’s hard to imagine, but females of ordinary garden ants can live up to 20 years! You probably saw ants with wings? It turns out that these are young females and male ants who leave their anthill for mating during the mating season.
Females are larger, males are smaller. The male’s task is to transfer to the female his genetic material, which she will keep all her life. Females after fertilization drop wings and establish new colonies, and males self-destruct.
Termite female
It is known that females of ants and termites live much longer than their counterparts. But females of some species of termites can live more than 50 years.
How do butterflies navigate in the dark?
While day butterflies rest, they are actively replaced by nocturnal ones. With the onset of dusk, a considerable number of night butterflies appear in the air. But unlike daytime ones, they are guided not by sight, but by their sense of smell and hearing.
Their olfactory organs are located on the antennae. The hearing of moths, as well as the sense of smell, is unusually developed. They can hear sounds so far that no one can hear at such a distance. The ears of moths are on the torso and when they receive high-quality signals coming from approaching bats that feed on insects, the moth immediately falls to the ground immediately.
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Magical transformation
In the life of insects, just like in the tale of the ugly duckling, where the “duckling” turned into a beautiful swan, the caterpillar turns into an incredibly beautiful butterfly. It all starts with an ordinary egg, from which the butterfly larva hatches: it grows, fully eats, molts and soon transforms into a chrysalis wrapped in a cocoon.
And finally, a small immature creature turns into a butterfly with large, bright wings. Exactly so, a fairy tale is realized in this unusual world of insects.
Strange INSECT
And this insect, as we see, has a rather strange appearance. In the scientific world, this insect has the name Bocydium globulare, popularly called "Ring Carrier".
This is a representative of cicadas, which during the course of evolution acquired such strange spherical “horns”.
Among the cicadas, there are many other species with similar bizarre growths.
And in the photo below we see the tactile contact of the humpback and ant:
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