The mouthparts of bees chew or chew-suck. The upper jaw is well developed, the feet are short and thick, and the feet are slender. Females have spines at the end of the abdomen, and some species have spots made up of thick silver hair on their heads or bodies. Larvae has no feet, and some have small protrusions on the side of chest and abdomen, which is very different from adult mud bees. Most of them are hunting, a few are parasitic or parasitic.

Its hunting and nesting instincts are complex. Adults prey on arthropods, including insects, spiders and scorpions. Its hunting range varies from genus to genus; Some prey are different every year. After catching the prey, the adults paralyze it with pincers, and then bring the prey back to the nest for sealed storage for the offspring larvae to eat.

The social development of mud bees is weak, most of them live alone, and a few species live together like * * *, that is, several female bees share a nest mouth and passage, each female bee builds its own nest room separately, and some children help her mother take care of her brothers and sisters. The bumblebee fossils were first discovered in the early Cretaceous.

Wasps may have originated from the ancestors of Hymenoptera parasitic groups. Mud bees are important predatory insects, which can prey on various pests and feed on pollen, thus indirectly helping plants spread pollen. However, there are some species reported as pests in Europe, such as worker bees of the genus Apis, which hunt house bees to feed their larvae.

The Tale of Insects of Yanchang is an insect biology book, which summarizes the species, characteristics, habits and mating habits of insects, records the real life of insects, expresses the spirituality of insects in struggle for existence, and also records Fabres's motivation, life ambition, knowledge background and life state of being obsessed with insect research.

The author combines the colorful life of insects with his own life feelings, treats insects with a human attitude, and reveals his respect and love for life between the lines.

Entomology is a combination of science and literature, which means that it has both scientific rationality and literary sensibility. From time to time, the book reveals the truth, puts forward deep thinking on the value of life, and tries to integrate deeper meaning into science.

Author Fabres spent his whole life excavating a world in his "barren stone garden", singing for the insect world and lamenting for human society. He is "Homer of the insect world", but in real life, he has always been extremely difficult-"poor in the first half of his life, barely eating and drinking in the second half", and he often has to endure all kinds of indifference and prejudice from authoritative figures in education and science. He lives with his favorite insects forever.

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