The text of The Cricket's Home
Crickets living on the grass are almost as famous as cicadas. It is famous not only for singing, but also for living.
Most other insects hide in temporary shelters. It takes no effort to get their hidden benefits, and it is not a pity to lose them. Unlike them, crickets refuse to be happy. It often chooses its address carefully, and it must be well drained and sunny. It does not use ready-made caves. Its comfortable house was excavated bit by bit, from the hall to the bedroom.
How can crickets have a gift for building houses? Does it have any special tools? No. Cricket is not an expert in digging. Its tools are so weak that people are surprised at the fruits of its labor.
When I was a child, I went to the grass to catch crickets, locked them in cages and fed them with vegetable leaves. Now, in order to study crickets, I search their nests again.
On the bank facing the sun, there is an inclined tunnel hidden in the green grass. Even if there is a shower, it will dry up immediately. The tunnel twists and turns along the terrain, reaching nine inches deep and one finger wide. This is the cricket's residence. There is always a clump of grass at the exit, which is half covered, just like a door. Crickets come out to eat the young grass around them and never touch this clump of grass. The slightly inclined door was carefully raked and swept, and it was very flat. This is a cricket platform. When the surroundings are quiet, crickets will play the piano on this platform.
The interior of the house is not decorated, but the walls are smooth. Master has plenty of time to repair rough places. Generally speaking, the residence is simple, clean, dry and sanitary. If we think that the tools used by cricket to dig things are so simple, this house can really be regarded as a great project.
Crickets mostly build houses in cold October and early autumn. It rakes the soil with its front foot and removes the larger clods with pliers. It steps on the ground with its powerful hind feet. There are two rows of saws on the hind legs, which are used to push the soil to the back and lay it diagonally.
The work was soon finished. Cricket works under the soil. If it feels tired, it will have a rest in front of the unfinished house, with its head facing outward and its tentacles swinging slightly. After a while, it went in and went on working. I watched it for two hours in a row, and I was a little impatient.
The important part of the house is almost finished. The hole has been dug two inches deep, which is big enough. The rest is a long renovation, one today and one tomorrow. This hole can deepen and widen with the cold weather and the growth of its body. Even in winter, as long as the weather is mild and the sun shines on its door, you can still see crickets constantly throwing dirt from it.
Introduction to entomology
Entomology, also known as Insect World and Insect Tales, is a long biological work by French entomologist and writer Jean-Henri casimir Fables.
Is a book about insect life, involving 100 kinds of insects, such as dung beetles, ants, Sisyphus worms and so on. 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.
Brief introduction of Fabres
Jean Henri Casimir Fabre (1 823 65438+February 22nd ~191510/01) is a famous 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.