1 tarantula

----------------. However, a careful observer will know that he is a diligent worker, a talented weaver and a cunning hunter, and he is also very meaningful in other aspects. Therefore, even if not from a scientific point of view, spiders are also an animal worthy of study. But everyone says it has < P > poison, which is its biggest crime and the reason why everyone is afraid of it. Yes, it does have two fangs, which can < P > kill its prey immediately. If we only proceed from this point, we can really say that it is a terrible animal, but

poisoning a bug and murdering a person are two very different things. No matter how quickly a spider can end the life of a

bug, there will be no more terrible consequences for human beings than a mosquito sting. Therefore, I can

boldly say that most spiders are innocent, and they are unjustly wronged.

However, a few kinds of spiders are really poisonous. According to the Italians, a tarantula sting can make people convulse and

dance wildly. There is no panacea for this disease except music. And only a few songs with fixed < P > are particularly effective in treating this disease. This legend sounds ridiculous, but it makes sense when you think about it carefully.

The tarantula's sting may stimulate the nerves and make the stabbed person lose his normal state. Only music can calm them down and restore them to normal state.

Violent dancing can make the stabbed person sweat, thus driving out the poison.

In our area, there are the most powerful black-bellied tarantulas, from which we can know how toxic spiders are. I

have several tarantulas at home. Let me introduce them to you and tell you how they hunt!

This tarantula has black fluff and brown stripes on its abdomen and circles of gray and white stripes on its legs.

it likes to live in the dry sand with thyme. My wasteland just meets this requirement. This kind of spider has about twenty

holes. Every time I pass by the hole and look inside, I can always see four big eyes.

The hermit's four telescopes are shining like Jin Gangzuan, so it's hard to see his four small eyes under the ground.

The tarantula's residence is about one foot deep and one inch wide. They dug it with their own fangs. At first, it was

straight, and then it gradually bent. There is a low wall at the edge of the hole, which is made of straw, fragments of various wastes and even

some small stones. It looks a little crude, and you can't tell it without looking carefully. Sometimes this fence is one inch high, but sometimes it is just a raised edge on the ground.

I am going to catch a tarantula. So I danced a spikelet at the mouth of the cave, imitating the buzzing of bees. I think the tarantula will think it's its prey when it hears this sound, and will rush out immediately. But my plan failed. The tarantula did

climb a little, trying to find out what the sound was, but it immediately sniffed out that it was not a prey but a

trap, so it stopped motionless halfway, refused to come out, and just looked out of the hole warily.

It seems that the only way to catch this cunning tarantula is to use live bees as bait. So I found a

bottle. The mouth of the bottle is as big as the hole. I put a bee in a bottle and put a bottle mask on the hole. This

powerful soil bee just buzzed at first, hysterically hitting this glass cell, desperately trying to get out of this hateful place

. When it found a hole similar to its own, it flew in without hesitation. It was really

stupid, and it took such a road of self-destruction. When it flew down, the tarantula was also rushing to

, so they collided at the corner of the hole. Soon I heard a scream of death from inside-

that poor native bee! There was a long silence after that. I moved the bottle away and used a pair of pliers to explore the rope in the hole. I dragged the bee out, and it was dead, just as I imagined just now. A tragedy has already happened in the cave. This tarantula was suddenly robbed of its prey from the sky, and paused. I really couldn't bear to give up this beautiful hunting < P > and hurried to catch up with it, so both the prey and the hunters came out of the hole. I quickly took the opportunity to plug the hole with stones. The wolf

spider was shocked by the sudden change, suddenly became very timid, hesitated there, didn't know what to do,

didn't have the courage to escape. In less than a second, I easily pulled it into a paper bag with a grass.

that's how I lured him out of the hole and arrested him. Soon there were a group of tarantulas in my lab.

I used a ground bee to lure it, not only to catch it, but also to see how it hunts. I know it's the

kind of insect that eats fresh food every day, instead of eating the food stored by its mother like a beetle, or having a strange anesthesia like a yellow bee that can keep its prey fresh for two weeks. It is a ferocious butcher.

As soon as it catches food, it kills it alive and eats it on the spot.

It's really not easy for a tarantula to get its prey, and it has to take great risks. The grasshopper

with powerful teeth and the stinging bee may fly into its hole at any time. When it comes to weapons, the two sides are neck and neck. Who is better than a

chip? The tarantula has no other weapon except its fangs. It can't release silk to bind the enemy like a striped spider.

the only way for it is to pounce on the enemy and kill it immediately. It must pierce its fangs into the most deadly place of the enemy.

Although its fangs are fierce, I don't believe that it can kill the enemy with a slight stab anywhere instead of hitting the key

.

2 Fighting carpenter bees

I have already told the story of a tarantula catching a native bee alive, but this is not enough for me. I also want to see how it fights other insects

. So I chose one of its most powerful rivals, the carpenter bee. This kind of bee has black velvet < P > hair all over its body and purple thread embedded in its wings, which is almost an inch long. Its sting is very severe, and it hurts after being stung by it, and it will swell up < P > and disappear after a long time. I know this because I have suffered from it and been stabbed by it. Its

is indeed a formidable enemy worthy of a battle between tarantulas.

I caught some carpenter bees and put them in bottles. I picked another big, fierce and hungry tarantula. I put a bottle of mask on the hole of that vicious tarantula, and the carpenter bee buzzed fiercely in the glass cell, as if knowing that death was imminent. The tarantula was disturbed and climbed out of the hole, and half of its body leaned out of the hole.

It looked at the scene in front of it and did not dare to act rashly, but just waited quietly. I also waited patiently. A quarter of an hour passed

, and half an hour passed, and nothing happened. The tarantula went back to the cave as if nothing had happened. Big

it thinks something is wrong, and it is too dangerous to prey rashly. In this way, I tested several other tarantulas. I

didn't believe that every tarantula would be so indifferent to the rich food, so I continued to test one by one. All of them were

like this, always wary of "prey falling from the sky".

finally, I succeeded. A wolf spider rushed out of the hole violently. There is no doubt that it must be hungry.

In a blink of an eye, the fight was over and the strong carpenter bee was dead. Where did the killer stab the fangs

? It's behind its head. The tarantula's fangs are still there. I doubt that it really has the knowledge that it can bite the only place that can kill it, that is, the nerve center of its captive.

I have done several experiments and found that tarantulas can always kill the enemy cleanly in a blink of an eye, and the combat methods are similar. Now I understand why in the previous experiments, the tarantula only looked at the prey at the mouth of the cave, but was too late to attack. Its hesitation is justified. Such a powerful insect can't be caught rashly. If

it doesn't hit the key, it will be finished by itself. Because if the bee doesn't get hit, it can live for at least a few hours, during which it has plenty of time to fight back at the enemy. The tarantula knows this very well,

so it should stay in a safe hole and wait for the opportunity, and it will not rush out immediately until the big bee is facing it and its head is easily hit

, otherwise it will never take risks with its own life.

tarantula toxin

Let me tell you what a powerful hidden weapons tarantula toxin is.

I made an experiment to let a tarantula bite a young sparrow whose feathers have just grown and will leave the nest. Sparrow

was injured, and a drop of blood flowed out. The wound was surrounded by a red circle, and then it turned purple. Moreover, this leg was

useless and could not work hard. Little sparrows can only hop on one leg. Besides, it seems to have no pain and a good appetite. My daughter sympathetically fed it flies, bread and apricot jam, and the poor little sparrow made my experiment. But I believe it will recover soon and be free soon-this is also the wish

expectation and speculation of our family. Twelve hours later, we are still optimistic about its injury. It still eats well, and it will lose its temper if it is fed late. But two days later, it stopped eating, its feathers were messy, and its body shrank into a small ball. < P > Sometimes it didn't move, and sometimes it gave out a spasm. My daughter lovingly holds it in her hand and breathes to keep it warm. But it convulsed more and more, more and more times, and finally, it left this world.

there was a chill at the dinner table that day. I can see from the eyes of my family their silent protest and blame for my experiment. I know they must think I'm cruel. Everyone is

saddened by the death of this unfortunate little sparrow. I regret it myself: all I want to know is a small problem, but I paid such a big price.

Nevertheless, I got up the courage to test a mole. It was caught by us while stealing lettuce from the field.

So even if it died, it is not a pity. I put it in a cage and fed it with all kinds of beetles and grasshoppers. It ate greedily, and I made it fat and healthy.

I asked a tarantula to bite its nose. After being bitten, it kept scratching its nose with its wide claws. Because

its nose began to rot slowly. From then on, the big mole gradually lost his appetite and didn't want to eat anything. < P > He was slow to move, and I could see that he was uncomfortable all over. By the next night, it had completely stopped eating. About 36 hours after being bitten, it finally died. There are many insects left in the cage that have not been eaten, which proves that it was not starved to death, < P > but poisoned.

So tarantula's fangs can not only kill insects, but also be dangerous and terrible for some slightly older animals. It can kill both sparrows and moles, although the latter is much larger than it. Although

I haven't done similar experiments since then, I can say that we must be careful not to be bitten by it.

This is really not something that can be tested.

Now, let's try to compare this spider that kills insects with the wasp that anesthetizes insects. Spider, because it

lives on fresh prey, it bites the nerve center of the insect's head and makes it die immediately; The wasp, on the other hand, wants to

keep food fresh and provide food for its larvae, so it stabs on another nerve center of its prey, making it lose

the ability to move. Similarly, they all like to eat fresh food, and the weapons they use are stingers.

No one taught them how to treat their prey in different ways according to their own needs. They were born to understand this

. This leads us to believe that, in the world, there is indeed an omnipotent god who rules the insect and the human world.

3 tarantula's egg bag

If you hear the story of how this terrible tarantula cares for her family, you will definitely change your view of it when you are amazed.

On an early morning in August, I found a tarantula weaving a silk screen on the ground, which was about the size of a palm.

this net is rough and unsightly, but it is strong. This is the place where it will work. This net can isolate its nest from the sand. On this net, it weaves a mat about the size of a coin with the best white silk. It thickens the edge of the mat until it becomes a bowl with a wide and flat edge around it. It lays eggs in this net, and then covers them with silk, so that from the outside, we can only see a ball on a silk carpet.

Then it uses its legs to pull off the silk that has climbed on the round table one by one, and then sweeps the circle up and covers it on the ball.

Then it pulls it with its teeth and sweeps it with its broom-like legs until it pulls the egg bag off the screen. This is

a laborious task.

This bag is a white silk ball, soft and sticky to the touch, and the size is like a cherry. If you look carefully, then

you will find a horizontal crease in the center of the bag, where you can insert a needle without puncturing the bag.

this crease is the edge of the round mat. The round mat covers the lower half of the bag, and the upper half is where the little tarantula comes out. There is no shelter except

the silk laid by the female spider after laying eggs. There is nothing in the bag except the eggs, unlike the striped spider, which is lined with soft mattress and fluff. Tarantulas don't have to worry about the influence of climate on their eggs, because their eggs have already hatched before winter comes.

The female spider has been busy weaving a woven bag all morning. Now it's tired. It clung to its precious ball and rested quietly. When Uncle Sheng was not careful, he lost his baby. The next morning, when I saw it again, it had hung this little < P > ball on the silk bag behind it.

for almost three weeks, it always dragged the heavy bag. No matter when it climbs to the low wall of the hole,

when it retreats into the hole in a hurry when it is in danger, or when it walks on the ground, it never refuses to put down

its baby pouch. If something unexpected makes this small bag out of its arms, it will immediately jump on it crazily and tightly.