Agriculture Idol

Chapter 142 Feathering
"Lanting, spiders are not insects!" Ma Bo shouted to Qi Lanting from a distance.

"Whether it's an insect or not, don't approach me with more than four legs!" Qi Lanting also shouted from a distance.

Ma Bo smiled helplessly at the camera. Fans who are familiar with Qi Lanting understand his difficulties very well.

Marbo went on to explain before: "The long-legged spider feeds on agricultural pests, including the white-backed planthopper that mainly harms rice, and the black-tailed leafhopper that destroys the transport tissue of grasses, so it is 100% beneficial insects. .The long-legged spider usually hides and rests in the grass blades near the water, and only starts to weave its web when it hunts for prey."

In fact, for all spiders, not just the protodontus, the spider web is not their shelter, but just a trap for prey.

The environment and shape of the spider's web will change according to the type of predation of the spider. Some spiders will weave bowl-shaped spider webs, like to lurk under the grass blades to intercept the bugs that fall from above, and some spiders that eat moths will weave around electric lights. Create a curved net like a lampshade.

Of course, the most common spider web is still round.The front-toothed long-legged spider that likes to live near the water likes to weave a covering-type circular spider web in the stone crevices or grass blades 10 centimeters away from the water, so that it can prey on small insects that come to the water to lay eggs.

"I understand the truth, but how did the spider on the waterside get to the roof 200 meters away? Is it brought up from the mud again?" Qi Lanting squatted and drew circles far away from the camera.

Marbo thought for a while: "It's true that spiders don't have wings, but they can still 'fly'."

"Hey, is it?" (⊙﹏⊙)
"The spider will climb to a high place and secrete silk thread, and then the wind will blow up the spider thread. As long as the tension is enough, the wind force endured by the spider thread will make the spider fly - just like Spider-Man. Using this method of movement, Spiders can even fly up to 100 kilometers away. So in addition to bringing this source from the soil, this front-toothed spider may have been brought from the water's edge thousands of miles away by last night's storm. By chance Landed here and used this newly created pond as a new habitat."

Qi Lanting shrank his neck when he heard the words: "So, is it possible that there are spiders floating everywhere outside! I don't want to be a human! JOJO!"

After putting on the wide-brimmed hat handed over by a staff member, Qi Lanting felt much better, and the itchy neck caused by psychological effects also eased a lot.

Anyway, it was the show he was hosting, so it's not good to always shrink into the corner of the camera, so I still had to pretend to walk around the pool, and then Qi Lanting, who had too good eyesight, immediately discovered what he was afraid of.

He took a few steps back before pointing to a clump of rice submerged in the pool and shouting, "There's a big bug over there!"

The camera bypassed Qi Lanting and came closer, and everyone discovered a plump waterhopper lying on the rice near the water surface.

It was said to be a waterhopper, but something seemed wrong. This waterhopper was too pale and stiff.

Ma Bo leaned over and took a look: "Ah! This is already feathered!"

As he spoke, he took the empty shell of the water squirrel from the rice stalk and put it in his hand, pointed to a hole on the back of the empty shell and said, "This is the exit of the adult dragonfly."

"Didn't they just lay eggs a few days ago, why did they hatch so quickly?" Qi Lanting's voice came from a distance.

Ma Bo speculated: "The growth period of a dragonfly is measured in years, and it is definitely not the one that was born before. This waterhopper may have been in the water before, but we have never found it."

Looking up the rice stalk where the empty shell of the waterhopper was, Mabo soon found a dragonfly that had just emerged from its cocoon in the dense rice bush. The body of this dragonfly was bright yellow, and its wings were shining in the morning sun. .

The wings of newly fledged dragonflies are still very fragile, so they usually hide in the grass leaves to avoid the wind.After it is completely dry, the dragonfly will fly away from the rice bush.

"Is this the first creature born from the pond?" Qi Lanting was a little excited, looking at the dragonfly from a distance, bursting out with inexplicable paternal love.

"Uh," Marble paused, "This pool has only been built for more than two months, so it's not entirely considered to be born in the pool, but... it counts."

In addition to all kinds of insects that live on the water, a lot of aquatic plants have grown at the bottom of the pond in just over two months, probably because the algae spores in the soil have adapted to the environment on the top floor and started to grow.

Mabo is not that professional in plants, but after a little research, he can identify that the water is basically full of common algae, such as Chara buchneri and Hydra and the close relatives of these two common species.

"This is also adding shelter to aquatic insects, which is a good thing. These algae are basically harmless algae."

"I'm asking about this grass, which is different from what you checked." Qi Lanting pointed to a small piece of duckweed on the water, "What is this thing with thorns?"

With that said, the camera lens also moved closer to take a look. The duckweed in the lens could not be described as "thorny". Instead, there were dark, dense tentacle-like things sticking out from under the ginkgo leaf-shaped duckweed. .

[What is this! 】

【Okay! 】

[Isn’t this because the duckweed is covered with parasites or something like that? 】

Just like catching a spider with his hands, Ma Bo wanted to pick up the duckweed with his hands and take a look, but after thinking about it, he shrank back and went to get one from the storage room specially arranged for this live broadcast program on the top floor. In the aquarium with two liters of water, I scooped up the duckweed in the water.

"I really don't recognize this thing." Ma Bo scratched his head, took out his mobile phone and took pictures of duckweed from various angles, and sent them to Professor Pan.

Professor Pan quickly replied: "I study wild animals, but I really don't know much about plants, but I sent these photos to my friend who studies aquatic plants, let's see what he has to say."

After a while, someone called Ma Bo. After all, he was still doing the live broadcast, and it seemed that he was not very good at answering the phone, so Ma Bo went off-camera to answer the phone.However, after a few words, Ma Bo came back with the phone. It turned out that the caller was the friend who studied aquatic plants that Professor Pan had mentioned before.

Ma Bo turned on the phone's amplifier and asked a scholar who studies aquatic plants to start explaining: "This is Ginkgo moss. It is moss, not duckweed. It is the only moss that grows on the water in Asia. The deep ones below the Ginkgo moss The colored tentacles are all its roots, and it relies on these roots to absorb nutrients from the water. Ginkgo moss reproduces by division. When it absorbs enough nutrients, it will split from it and turn into two moss. "

"Amazing……"

"In addition, because it reproduces by fission, its genes are very stable and there are no subspecies. Ginkgo duckweed used to be often seen in paddy fields. Later, due to the use of herbicides and changes in paddy field irrigation methods, the number dropped sharply, and it is now very rare. rarely seen."

[The problem is solved, but it was brought from the soil again]

[The soil of the paddy field chosen by Brother Xiaoyong, why are there so many messy things in it! 】

[Suddenly feel that the flower clay I bought from the flower and bird market is useless...]

After discovering an unusual new species, and it was not a bug, Qi Lanting finally found a chance to take a photo of Ginkgo Duckweed, and then posted the photo on Weibo.

"Isn't the plant found in the pond on the top floor very beautiful! [爱心][爱心]"

(End of this chapter)