is like an dung . I can stare at all the filth on the road of life and regard it as a rare opportunity.
- Bradry Trevor Grive
Insects are the most prosperous animals on the earth. Before we noticed it, countless little lives are thriving around us and sharing the earth with us.
In the latest episode of the variety show "Hi Fangpai", the guests opened a wild copy on Mid-Autumn Night to explore the relationship between insects and humans. Among them, the dung beetle pushing the dung beetle made Xiaosi very interested.
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dung beetle, it is an insect with all the names. Speaking of it, the scene of it "rolling the dung ball" involuntarily appears.
There are nearly 5,000 kinds of dung beetles recorded in the world. Except in the ocean and Antarctica, they are indispensable on any continent.
There are three types of dung beetle, from left to right, they are push ball type, authentic type, and dung type. Source: ted
Moving dung ball is the ancestral craft of dung beetle
dung beetle is a very responsible insect. It pushes dung ball for itself and for the family.
As food: The feces excreted by cattle and sheep contain a large amount of organic matter, and the dung beetle will feed on these organic matters. After eating, the remaining organic matter will be buried and stored for next time.
becomes a delivery room: the dung ball rolled in can provide the need to lay eggs. After pushing the dung ball into the ground, it is both a delivery room and a nursery room. Let the small dung beetle larvae get sufficient nutrients from the beginning of hatching.
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is used to court: When the female dung beetle sees the male dung beetle pushing the dung beetle, she will be very admiring to it when she sees the male dung beetle pushing the dung beetle, so the female dung beetle will help the male dung beetle push the dung beetle together, and eventually breeding offspring together.
dung beetle is far more powerful than you think
dung beetle appears, playing an important role in maintaining the balance of the natural ecosystem.
The larvae hatched in the feces balls will feed on feces, and the growing larvae will bury the feces, causing the feces to be degraded after circulating in nature. In addition, the dung beetle will bring all the important nutrients in the feces back to the soil, making the soil more fertile.
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In the eyes of many people, dung beetle is just an ordinary little character in nature, but dung beetle uses practical actions to tell you that no matter how difficult it is in the eyes of the world, sometimes dung beetle can settle down and create a home.
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