, which created the first kingdom of France, Napoleon , actually loves a small insect - bees. Why is this?
There is a legend that during Napoleon's infancy, a bee landed on his lips. Some people say that this is the message that the gods predict the great leader's arrival on earth. After becoming emperor, Napoleon regarded bees as symbols of the great French dynasty. At the coronation ceremony of Napoleon and his first wife, there were elements of "bees" from the banquet hall arrangement to the crowning clothing.
So, the Napoleon Dynasty is also called Bee Dynasty .
knows that bees live together in groups, can build nests, can collect honey, and are very hardworking.
Not only that, in the bee kingdom, there are strict social organizations, orderly and each performs its own duties. In fact, it is the national operation model that the zhengwan wants to see the most.
Looking at the entire insect world, you will find that these small insects are actually the great architects, soldiers and disguise masters in the world.
Each bug will master different special abilities according to the different living environment of it. For example, some insects are very strong, some live secretly, some use their special skills to avoid predators or attract mates, and some are used to teamwork.
It can be said that in the world of insects, they are more colorful than human life.
"DK Wonderful Encyclopedia of Insects" reveals the "privacy" lives of the citizens of the insect kingdom.
In this book, Jesse French, an insect expert, took to travel through the forest, land and ocean, explore the underground and the sky, searching every corner, and visiting the local bug family with different appearances and personalities.
Even older children, who are a little afraid of these bugs, can't help but look down while feeling goosebumps.
Low we will first learn some knowledge about bugs.
Bit knowledge
First of all, we need to know that insects are invertebrates. Do you know how many species of invertebrates are in the world?
The answer is that there are more than 1 million different invertebrates on the earth, accounting for 95% of all animals on the earth.
and the largest group among invertebrates is arthropod . So which animals are arthropods?
such as insects, arachnids, polypods, crustaceans, etc., are all arthropods.
We said earlier that this book takes us to explore many groups of bugs in places. Can they live anywhere on the earth?
Regarding this, let’s look at several cases of extreme environments and know it.
On the tundra land full of ice and snow, there are almost no plants growing, but here are tiny iceworms growing in cracks in glaciers. They have adapted to the cold temperature and if you put it in your hands, they will be "deathed". There are also furry caterpillars living here as well.
And in the hot desert, there are many bug families: for example, likes to collect morning fog beetles, back spiders who turn " side-hand " in the sand, and ferocious sun-avoiding spiders who hunt at night.
. On the cold mountains, there are very thick hair polar bumblebees, and Himalayan jumping spiders even live on several peaks in the world, including Mount Everest .
That is to say, from cold glaciers to hot deserts, they can survive almost anywhere.
After saying this, I still want to talk about the bees who have attacked me but have made me "can't hate it".
Bee knowledge
Speaking of group cooperation, bees are definitely the best among them.
bee colony consists of queen bee , drone and thousands of worker bee , each bee has a specific job.
The social division of labor of queen bees is to lay eggs for full-time and reproduce offspring; drones mating with queen bees; while the social division of labor for worker bees is numerous and the tasks are heavy.
It can be said that except for the respective tasks of the queen bee and the drone, all other tasks in the bee colony are undertaken by the worker bee, such as collecting honey, reconnaissing, cleaning beehives, caring for and feeding young bees, which is really hard work.
Of course, the worker bee will also be divided into as internal office bee and field bee , which is mainly divided according to age, which is what we call "competing for qualifications".
Such a hardworking group of worker bees can’t be a little bit angry?
After the queen stop laying eggs due to age and other factors, the worker bees will take care of it poorly;
And when there is a scarce source of honey outside, the worker bees will also drive the peak out of hive hive hive hive
hive till it gets frozen and hungry outside... hive troughs are called honeycombs, which are hexagonal, making it convenient for honey storage.
Finding nectar is a very difficult task, and bees have to spend a lot of time flying around. Some flowers have special patterns on their petals, which we call "nectar source", such as the flowers of foxglove . Bees can follow these instructions with their excellent vision to find hidden nectar.
The bees that find nectar will return to the beehive and dance circle dance ; if the nectar source is far away, the bees will dance a more complicated "8-character dance". The angle of the 8-character dance indicates the direction of the flowers, and the length of time is an example of the flowers; use this dance to tell the field bees the exact location of the honey source and let them go to work and .
Bees have special stomachs and bring nectar back to the beehive, where they turn nectar into honey.
Another interesting thing is:
Queen bees will only leave the hive during mating and grouping throughout their lives. If the queen bee who flew out to mating in the wrong group, she would be surrounded by worker bees... assassinated!
But if the drone is in the outgroup, the worker bee will not harm it.
Why do you think this is?
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