Mexican jumping bean is a weed in Mexican fields. Mexican jumping bean is the seed of Mexican shrub, which refers to the seed of European Euphorbiaceae shrub. Why do you call him jumping beans? As the name implies, it is jumping beans. Some people find it interesting and keep it as a pet. In fact, Mexican jumping bean is a croton, which will not be planted as a plant in Mexico, because the local people think that its outstanding fruit is not only bitter and hard, but also small in appearance, so people will not eat the fruit planted by it, so it has become a weed in Mexican fields.

Second, there are magical jumping beans. Most of these jumping beans are picked and played by children when they are mature. When they are picked and taken home, they will all jump and jump, and they will not stop for a moment, and some will even float, which looks very fun. Many people think it's strange, too. Why jump? Is this a magic bean? In fact, it's not because they have magic, but something is eroding their hearts. They will continue to beat because they feel pain. The animal that erodes their minds is the larva of the small oil moth. When this larva feeds on the pulp inside the seed, its internal movement is enhanced due to the increase of temperature, which makes the seed jump, so that we can see the seed jumping.

Mexican jumping bean is a kind of pod. In fact, Mexican jumping beans are not beans at all, but a kind of pods. In the spring of Mexico, many adults lay their eggs in the flowers of shrubs in the northwest mountainous areas, and the hatched larvae live in the seed pods of plants, and then the pods fall from the trees, thus bringing the larvae inside. When the larvae mature, they will break out of the cocoon and get into the jumping beans in the bushes until they grow up and break out of the cocoon.

When they arrive at the right time and the right environment, they will keep shaking when they want to come out, so the beans we see are jumping, which is actually caused by those moths trying to fly out.