1, the sacred beetle: also known as the golden turtle, the Department of fecal insects in the largest and most prestigious one.

Life habits: crescent-shaped top shell lined up along the front of the six tines, both digging tools, cutting tools, but also inserted, lifted, thrown, thrown dung in the nutrient-free plant fiber fork, but also as a columbarium rake, all the tasty things columbarium over.

2, praying mantis: has a broad green thin wings, a pair of front claws raised to the sky, as a prayer.

Habitat: The pair of raised arms are in fact its formidable weapons, the tools it uses to prey on the gray locusts and white-fronted katydids that pass by it. The sharp weapon to the prey clamped, so that the other side of the helpless, even spiders and other insects see also fear, become its belly.

3, cicadas: cicadas from eggs to larvae, followed by the summer singer.

Life habits: it has to lurk in a hole in the ground for four years, it has to go through nine deaths and a life of suffering, before being able to cultivate the right fruit. However, the singer's life is only 5 weeks, that is to say, adult cicadas, singing in the summer time is very short. 4 years without seeing the sun, to the human world to sing only 5 weeks, so it is always to sing enough, sometimes sing you upset, it is not surprising.

The work is an overview of the species, characteristics, habits and nuptial habits of insects, insect biology, records the real life of insects, the expression of the spirit of insects for the struggle for survival, but also recorded Fabre obsessed with the motives of the study of insects, life ambitions, intellectual background, living conditions and so on.

The author integrates the colorful life of insects with his own feelings about life, and looks at insects with human nature, revealing the author's respect for and love of life between the lines.

Expanded:

Faboure's book is about the life of insects, but we read it and find it more interesting and meaningful than watching those boring novels and dramas. Instead of dissecting and categorizing (enough is said in ordinary entomology), he uses observation and experimentation to record in the field the phenomena of insect life, and the incredible wonder and folly of instincts and habits.

We have been y impressed by the fortunes of our kind depicted in novels and dramas, and now we see these tragedies and comedies of the insect world as if we were hearing of a distant relative - a very distant relative indeed - and it is precisely the same urgency that stirs our hearts and brings to mind all sorts of things. His narration, in turn, is of particular literary interest, making him all the more worthy of the name of the epic of insects.

"Insects" is not only a scientific masterpiece of the study of insects, at the same time is also a eulogy of life's magnificent poetry. The Book of Insects is a poem describing the life of insects.

As an entomologist, Fabre was rigorous and meticulous. Based on a large amount of first-hand information from observation, he vividly revealed the little-known habits of insects. The Book of Insects is an excellent work of popular science and a recognized literary classic, written in a light-hearted and witty tone, full of abundant interest.

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