The most selfish thing is bees.
We have been cheated by her for so many years.
She collects nectar for herself.
How many beautiful flowers died in the hands of bees.
It is said that butterflies are the chief culprit in destroying flowers, but butterflies only suck honey water left by bees after collecting honey, and then pass pollen to flowers.
Most of the pollen was scraped clean by the hateful thief bees.
After human beings plundered the honey, royal jelly and pollen of bees, they were called "diligence".
Our favorite honey is actually the vomit of bees.
But honey does bring many benefits to human beings.
Ants are the most selfless insects in the world.
Ants and bees are social insects.
Ants evolved from an ancient wasp, but they all belong to the same class.
Ants and bees work hard for themselves and their queens.
If it is not for others, if it must be for others, it is because bees are more valuable than ants. After human plundered honey, royal jelly and pollen, it was given a false name of "diligence".
Ants contribute far more than bees.
It is a scavenger of nature.
If you have to choose between ants and bees.
I choose ants.
Although it is in cahoots with aphids.
Why do ants protect toothworms?
Aphids are the enemy of agricultural production.
They are adsorbed on the stems and leaves of crops, and they will pierce plant tissues with needle-like mouths, and suck nutrients from crops like vampires.
If there are 1000 aphids on a crop, the crop cannot grow.
In order to get a bumper harvest in agriculture, people try their best to eliminate aphids.
But ants are biased against people, caring for aphids and desperately protecting them.
If aphids are blown to the ground by strong winds or other reasons, ants will gently pick them up with their mouths and send them to the stems or leaves of plants, or take them to their caves to hide for a while and then send them to plants.
Ants come and go among aphids, and they also drive away the natural enemies who prey on aphids, making aphids more unscrupulous when they harm crops.
Why do ants work so hard to protect aphids?
We know that aphids suck the nutrition of plants, but its excrement, honey dew, is sweet and delicious food for ants.
Honey dew is a viscous, transparent and sweet substance, which contains sugar, protein, dextrin and other ingredients.
In the plot where sorghum aphids occur seriously, when thousands of aphids spray honey dew from their anus, it is like drizzle.
Ants like this sweet substance very much. When they smell honey dew, they rush to it in droves.
Sometimes, we will see more interesting phenomena in the fields where aphids occur:
When ants eat honey dew in aphids, they will also beat the abdomen of aphids with their rod-shaped tentacles, so that aphids can secrete more honey dew to satisfy their appetite.
Darwin described this phenomenon as early as in the Origin of Species: "... so ants began to beat the aphid's abdomen with their tentacles, first this one, then that one, and once the aphid felt that the grasshopper had met the shade."
When an animal rolls its tentacles, it immediately lifts its abdomen and secretes a clear sweet liquid, which the ant hastily swallows.
Even small aphids will do this, which is the result of instinct rather than experience. "
Ants protect aphids and aphids reward them with honey dew. This phenomenon is called "* * * phenomenon" in biology.
To talk about the relationship between ants and aphids, here is a story:
At the end of Qin dynasty, Xiang Yu fought with Liu Bang.
One day, Xiang Yu saw ants piled up on the hillside, which were written in big letters: "Wang Ba killed himself in Wujiang River".
Xiang Yu thought it was God's will, so he committed suicide after the defeat.
In fact, this is a trick of Liu Bang and Sean. (Strangely, it did not appear in Chu-Han legends.)
Liu Bang and Sean know very well that ants like sweets. They wrote six big characters on the hillside with honey to attract ants to eat, and Xiang Yu was cheated. (Xiang Yu is so brainless. )
Ants love to eat sweet things, and aphids produce honey dew on their buttocks, which connects ants with aphids.
Aphid feeds on crop juice day and night, so its feces are sweet.
Therefore, where there are aphids, ants will follow, gently sweep their buttocks with their tentacles, and take down the honey dew, the excrement of aphids, for convenience.
People hate aphids and want to kill them all, but ants regard them as treasures and try their best to protect them.
In late autumn and early winter, aphids lay eggs, and ants are afraid that they will freeze to death, so they move aphids and eggs to their nests for the winter.
Sometimes I am afraid of getting wet, which affects the hatching of aphid eggs. On sunny days, I must move out of my nest to bask in the sun.
When the flowers bloom in the next spring, the small aphids hatch out, and the ants transfer them to the early-growing trees and weeds, as well as the young leaves of sonchus, dandelion and pepper trees.
Generally speaking, ants are beneficial to agriculture and forestry.
But it is very bad to go along with aphids and do shady things.
There are many natural enemies of aphids, such as ladybugs, lacewings, mantises, syrphids and so on.
When these natural enemies come and the aphid is in danger, the end of its abdomen will release a liquid with a special taste warning pheromone. These liquids escape one after another, and some fall to the ground.
After receiving the alarm message from aphids, ants bared their teeth, opened their jaws, stood up in the first half, and fought to attack the natural enemies of aphids, trying to drive them away.
If aphids see ants, they will shake their abdomen with the help of ants and wait for the danger to pass. Aphids are really bad )
Syrphidae can detect aphids far away from it with two sensitive antennae.
Syrphids fly in groups, bite aphids with their beaks and suck up the body fluids of aphids at once.
It eats a lot and can suck twenty or thirty in one breath.
The larvae of syrphids are called blind old man maggots, which are similar to maggots in toilets, but they don't climb as fast as maggots.
Its sharp head, facing east and west for a while, looks like a blind man with a bamboo pole to explore the road. As long as the aphid is found, its sharp head sticks into the aphid, then holds its head high and holds it high, and soon sucks up all the body fluids in the aphid.
Syrphids are the guardians of agriculture and forestry. They don't act as vectors of diseases like flies, and they are committed to killing agricultural and forestry pests.
There are many interesting stories about little ants here. Welcome to reading.
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