Chapter 1588: Smiley spider

Chapter 1776 Smiley Spider
‘Okay, then I will call my mother and sister over. Feifei heard what Dad said, and then walked back again. He quickly came to his mother and sister. Then, let my mother and sister go to my father.
Qu Yuqian and Tiantian heard Feifei's words, and followed him to Zhao Zhongyao.
At this moment, Zhao Zhongyao looked at Qu Yuqian and Tiantian and said, ‘Come on, you two look at what is in the grass in front of you. ’
Qu Yuqian and Tiantian heard what Zhao Zhongyao said, and walked over and looked in the direction Zhao Zhongyao pointed. The two of them suddenly became nervous when they saw it.
‘Zhongyao, is there really anyone in the bushes ahead? Qu Yuqian looked nervous after watching it.
‘Dad, it’s not really a person squatting there! Tian Tian also saw the grass in front, as if there was a human face. She also looked surprised. If it weren't for their family to be here, Tian Tian might scream immediately, and then turned around and fled. Only when her father and brother are here, she will look calmer.
‘Haha, see how scared you are. How can you be alone! That is just a spider. Zhao Zhongyao said, looking at his wife and children.
Feifei, Tiantian, and Qu Yuqian looked surprised when they heard what Zhao Zhongyao said. After all, they didn't understand how Zhao Zhongyao would say this. Is there a face in the grass in front of you! Should that be a person! How could it be a spider!
Feifei also watched Zhao Zhongyao jokingly and said, ‘Dad, is the spider in front of him a spider man? It will not be a long human-like spider! ’
After hearing what Feifei said, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said, ‘what are you talking about! Why don't you say that it looks like Spiderman! ’
‘Then what kind of spider is it, how can it have a human face. Feifei looked puzzled when he heard what his father said.
'Yes! Dad, what kind of spider is this spider, how can it have a human face? He also looked puzzled when he heard what my father said every day.
Although Qu Yuqian didn't ask anything, she also looked puzzled. After all, they had never heard of a monster like a spider with a human face.
‘This is a smiley spider. Take a closer look, does it seem to be smiling? Zhao Zhongyao said, looking at his wife and children.
After hearing what Zhao Zhongyao said, Feifei, Tiantian and Qu Yuqian looked at the strange spider again. They also felt that the human face on the spider's belly looked like a smiling face. It's just that you didn't look at it carefully just now.
‘Dad, its face is really a smiling face! Feifei looked at this strange spider curiously and said.
'Yes! This spider is so strange that it has a smiling face. "Tiantian also said strangely.
Although Qu Yuqian didn't say anything, she was still curious.
After hearing what everyone said, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said, ‘Okay, it seems that you don’t know about smiley spiders. I will tell you some knowledge about smiling spiders now! ’
After Zhao Zhongyao finished speaking, he thought for a while, then looked at his wife and children, and talked about some knowledge about smiling spiders.
The smiley spider is a unique spider in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States. There is a smiley face pattern on the body. It has colored spots on its abdomen, named after it resembles a human face. The pattern of each spider is different, which is related to the different islands on which they are distributed and the food they eat.
Scientists believe that this unique pattern is used to deter other predators and claim that this spider is non-toxic. Due to the invasion of alien species, they are facing the threat of extinction.
Smiley spiders are small, only 5 mm long, and their belly is mostly spherical, almost transparent. Not toxic. Each spider has a different pattern. The color of the abdomen of the smiling spider is light yellow and slightly transparent. It appears red, black and white depending on the food absorbed.
The resulting pattern has similarities with smiling faces. Therefore, the English common name is also "Happy Face Spider". Divided into light, orange, yellow, and even bluish. The habitat of the spider can be determined by color. There is an abdominal stalk between the cephalothorax and abdomen.
There is a carapace on the back of the cephalothorax, and the front of the carapace usually has 8 monoculars. The abdomen is not long and has a sac-like shape; it has a textile device, evolved from appendages, and has many spinning tubes with various silk glands inside, which can spin. There are developed "venom glands" in the chelate; The main feature is that the abdomen is mostly spherical.
Step 4 There is a hair comb under the foot tarsus. The hair comb is composed of a row of serrated hairs. An irregular, chaotic net, stops under the center of the net with its back facing down, or in a crack on one side of the net. The catch can be by combing silk, and then stung and sucked.
The spider'smiling' abdomen, a very similar human face smiles. According to scientists, this planting color helps spiders confuse their natural enemies. The bright red "mouth" is a warning sign of "poison" that misleads greedy carnivores and takes action against them.
This smiling spider only exists in the four islands of the Hawaiian Islands. The altitude is 300-2,000 meters. Smiley spiders make a small web under leaves, rocks, or loose bark. The catch can be by combing silk, and then stung and sucked. With weak eyesight, male spiders look for female spiders by flicking their webs.
Oxford, a senior lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of York, UK, who has been studying spiders since 1993, said:
When I looked over the leaf and saw it, I couldn’t help but laugh. As for the reason why this spider has this pattern, there are There are many arguments. One of them is that it confuses the predator. Because when a bird or other prey animal sees its prey, it usually considers it before deciding whether to eat it.
This kind of spider grows such a pattern, perhaps to deter predators and wait for an opportunity to escape. "This is a harmless spider. Its bright color does not represent a danger to people. It eats midges that enter its web. The pattern "smile" can be changed according to the different effects of the food it eats. Different.
The female spider spins to form an egg bag, which contains fertilized eggs, which are laid under the rocks and on the leaves. Except for the mating period and 40-100 days at birth, they mainly live under leaves. The young spiders that hatch out of the egg shell remain in the egg bag for a few days and shed their skin 1-2 times in the bag.
Female spiders are 4.5-5 mm long and mature in June-July. They produce 2-3 pear-shaped egg bags and hang on the net. They mainly prey on insects and small vertebrates. It is reported that this spider can only be found in the rainforest of Hawaii, and its survival is threatened by foreign animals.
Experts explain that humans introduce exotic species of animals and plants to Hawaii every year, and they are threatening Hawaii's native species. Researchers discovered this miniature spider in an accident. Their abdomen presents various patterns, many of which resemble human faces. Although the patterns are different, they are all from the same species.
Scientists claim that the diversity of patterns on the abdomen of spiders is caused by genetic mutations and is also affected by the food they eat.
Oxford, a senior lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of York in the United Kingdom, pointed out that the role of this abdominal pattern is to confuse predators. When predators see this spider, they will consider whether they are prey, and provide the best for this spider. Important time to escape.
Zhao Zhongyao told everyone about this smiling spider. After listening, everyone felt very curious. I don't understand that there are such amazing little animals in nature.
It's just in the knowledge about smiling spiders that Zhao Zhongyao just said. The smiley spider he mentioned has a very small body shape, only five millimeters in length. But the size of the smiling spider they saw was definitely less than five millimeters.
Feifei felt that the body shape of this smiling spider might be twenty centimeters. Because if it weren't that big, Feifei wouldn't feel it was a human face. After all, this body shape and human face are similar.
Of course, what Feifei saw was the belly of this smiling spider. If you add its head and slender legs, it must be even bigger.
It's just that they haven't come to see this smiling spider. I don't know what this smiling spider looks like.
‘Dad, didn’t you say that the smiley spider is only five millimeters in size! But the smiling spider in front of me is five millimeters tall. Feifei looked at his father and said.
After hearing what his son said, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said, ‘I’m talking about the smiley spider on the earth. This is Mercury. The spiders on Mercury are of course different from those on Earth. Don’t you feel that the spiders we saw before, although they look the same as the spiders on earth. But their sizes are different. The spiders here are generally relatively large. ’
Feifei felt reasonable after hearing what his father said. After all, the spiders they just saw were relatively large. It's not like a spider on the earth at all. Because the small spiders on the earth are relatively small. It can't be compared with the large spiders on Mercury.
‘Dad, let’s go and take a look! In this place, we dare to just see the smiling face of it. I don't know what it looks like. ’
Feifei became very interested in this smiling spider again. I just want to go and take a look. After all, they are now five or six meters away from this smiling spider! You can only see the smiling face of this smiling spider, but you can't see its whole body.
After hearing what Feifei said, Zhao Zhongyao said, ‘Okay, let’s go ahead and have a look! Let’s see what this smiling spider looks like. ’
After that, Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei, Qu Yuqian and Tian Tian walked forward together. However, they are very careful. Because they were afraid to start this smiling spider.
However, this smiling spider seems to be not afraid of them. No matter how close they go, it stays motionless. To say that small animals like spiders are like this, they can stay there motionless all the time. They only act when their prey appears.
Animals are very patient in order to hunt successfully. They can lie there motionless, as if they were not an animal, but something.
Just like a gecko, it can lie motionless for several hours in one place in order to prey successfully. It waits until there is a prey flying in front of it, it will suddenly act and bite the prey into its mouth.
In the summer, if we observe carefully in some places with geckos, we will see these small animals hunting very magically. They will lie on the wall motionless, and wait until something like a small flying insect crawls to their mouths before they suddenly open their mouths and bite the small flying insect into their mouths.
The same is true of this smiling spider, it seems to be waiting for some prey to appear. One stayed in this place, motionless. It's like some prey is coming to this place.
When Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei, Tiantian and Qu Yuqian came to this smiling spider, it was still motionless.
Now Zhao Zhongyao and the others are almost two meters away from this smiling spider. At such a close distance, they all saw the whole look of this smiling spider.
Zhao Zhongyao saw the overall appearance of this smiling spider is also very magical. Its belly is yellow, but its body is green, and its head is black. On the belly, there are two curved black stripes, and under the two curved black stripes, there is a big red mouth. It seems to be very vivid. It's like someone drew a smiling face on its belly.
This smiling spider is really huge. It can be said that it is at least dozens of times larger than the smiley spider on earth. Because the smiley face of this smiley spider is twenty centimeters long and ten centimeters wide. It was a huge smiling face.
There are also eight legs of this spider, which are thin and long. The first leg is about fifty centimeters long. The whole smiling spider looks really cute and scary. After all, such a cute smiling face grows on such a scary spider, it naturally makes people feel a little cute and scary.
‘Dad, this spider is really big! It seems to be bigger than that tarantula. Feifei looked at the huge smiling spider in front of him, and he felt it was very magical.
'Yes! I also feel very incredible. Such smiling spiders are very small on earth. But the smiling spider on Mercury actually has a basin the size of a washbasin, which is really incredible. ’
Zhao Zhongyao looked at the smiling spider in front of him, and he also felt incredible. After all, they couldn't think of how such a tiny smiling spider on Earth could grow so big on Mercury.
After hearing what Zhao Zhongyao said, Feifei said again, ‘Dad, what is this smiling spider doing! Why doesn't it move! ’