Chapter 1776: Smiling Spider

Chapter 1776 Smiley Spider

'Okay, then I'll go over and call my mother and sister over. ’ After hearing what Dad said, Feifei walked back again. He quickly came to his mother and sister. Then, let mom and sister go to dad.

After hearing Feifei's words, Qu Yuqian and Tiantian followed him to Zhao Zhongyao.

At this moment, Zhao Zhongyao looked at Qu Yuqian and Tiantian and said, 'Come on, you two have a look at what is in the grass in front of you. '

After hearing Zhao Zhongyao's words, Qu Yuqian and Tiantian walked over and looked in the direction Zhao Zhongyao pointed. When the two of them saw this, they suddenly became nervous.

'Zhongyao, is there really someone in the grass in front? ’ Qu Yuqian looked nervous after reading it.

‘Dad, there’s no real person squatting there! ’ Tian Tian also saw a human face in the grass in front of him. She also looked surprised. If it wasn't for their family being here, Tiantian might have screamed immediately, then turned around and ran away. Only with her father and brother here, she will appear calmer.

‘Haha, let’s see how scared you are. How could it be a person! That's just a spider. Zhao Zhongyao looked at his wife and children and said.

Feifei, Tiantian and Qu Yuqian looked surprised when they heard Zhao Zhongyao's words. After all, they didn't understand how Zhao Zhongyao would say that. In the grass in front, there is obviously a human face! That should be a person! How could it be a spider!

Feifei also looked at Zhao Zhongyao and joked, "Dad, is that spider in front a spiderman?" It can't be a spider that looks like a man! '

After hearing Feifei's words, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said,'What nonsense are you talking about! Why don't you say it looks like Spider-Man! '

'Then what kind of spider is it, why does it have a human face. ’ After hearing what Dad said, Feifei looked puzzled.

'yes! Dad, what kind of spider is this spider? Why does it have a human face? ’ After listening to my father’s words every day, I also looked puzzled.

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.

'It's a smiling spider. Take a closer look, does its face seem to be smiling! Zhao Zhongyao said, looking at his wife and children.

After hearing Zhao Zhongyao's words, Feifei, Tiantian, and Qu Yuqian all looked at the strange spider carefully again. They also felt that the human face on the spider's stomach seemed to be a smiling face. It's just that everyone didn't look 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. ’ Tian Tian also said strangely.

Although Qu Yuqian didn't say anything, she also looked curious.

After hearing what everyone said, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said, Well, it seems that you don't know about the smiling spider. Let me tell you some more about smiling spiders now! '

After Zhao Zhongyao finished speaking, he thought for a while, then looked at his wife and children, and told some more about smiling spiders.

The smiling face spider is a species of spider endemic to the Hawaiian Islands in the United States. There are smiley face patterns on the body. It got its name from the colorful spots on its abdomen that resemble a human face. The pattern of each spider is different, which has something to do with the islands where they are distributed and the food they ingest.

Scientists believe the distinctive pattern is used to deter other predators and say the spider is non-venomous. They are threatened with extinction due to the invasion of alien species.

The smiling face spider is small in size, only 5 mm long, and its abdomen is mostly spherical and almost transparent. Not toxic. The pattern of each spider is different, and the color of the belly of the smiley spider is light yellow and slightly transparent. Red, black and white depending on the food absorbed.

The resulting patterns have similarities to smiling faces. Therefore, the English common name is also "happy face spider". Divided into pale, orange, yellow, and even bluish. The spider's habitat can be identified by color. The cephalothorax and abdomen are connected by an abdominal stalk.

There is a carapace on the back of the head and chest, and the front end of the carapace usually has 8 monocular eyes. The abdomen is not long and is sac-shaped; it has a spinning device, which evolved from the appendages. There are many spinning tubes on it, which are connected with various silk glands, which can spin silk. There are well-developed "poison glands" in the chelicerae; the end of the male spider's palpitations is specialized into a palpitation. The main feature is that the abdomen is mostly spherical.

There is a hair comb under the tarsus of the fourth step foot, and the hair comb is composed of a row of serrated hairs. Irregular messy nets, parked on their backs under the center of the net, or in the cracks on one side of the net. The prey can be bound by the hair comb, and then sucked through the sting hole.

The abdomen of the spider 'smiles', very similar to the smile on the human face. According to scientists, this plant color helps the spiders confuse their predators. The bright red "mouth" is a warning sign of "poison" that misleads greedy predators and takes action against it.

The smiling spider is found on only four islands in the Hawaiian archipelago. The altitude is 300-2,000 meters. Smiley spiders build small webs under leaves, rocks, or loose bark. The prey can be bound by the hair comb, and then sucked through the sting hole. The eyesight is weak, and the male spider looks for the female spider by flicking the female spider's web.

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 turned over the leaves and saw it, I couldn't help laughing. There are some reasons why this spider has such a pattern. There are many theories. One of them is that it confuses the predator. Because when birds or other predators see prey, they usually think about it.

decide whether to eat it or not.

The spider's pattern may have been designed to deter predators and allow them to escape. "This is a harmless spider, and its bright colors do not represent danger to people. It eats small midges that enter its web, and the pattern "smile" can change according to the different effects of the food it ingests. different.

The female spider spins to form an egg bag, which contains fertilized eggs, and the egg bag is produced under the stone and on the leaf surface. Except for the mating period and the first 40-100 days after birth, they mainly live under the leaves. The juvenile spiders that have hatched from the egg shells still stay in the egg bag for several days, and shed their skin 1-2 times in the bag.

The female spider is 4.5-5 mm long, matures in June-July, produces 2-3 pear-shaped egg bags and hangs them on the net, and mainly preys 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 exotic animals.

Experts explain that humans have introduced exotic species of flora and fauna to Hawaii every year, and they are threatening native species in Hawaii. The tiny spiders, which researchers discovered by accident, display a variety of patterns on their abdomens, many of which resemble human faces, and although the patterns vary, they all originate from the same species.

The variety of patterns on the spider's abdomen is due to genetic variation and is also influenced by the food it eats, scientists say.

Oakes-ford, 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, providing this spider with the ultimate critical escape time.

Zhao Zhongyao told everyone some knowledge about this smiling spider. After listening to it, everyone felt very curious. I don't understand that there are such magical little animals in nature.

It's just in what Zhao Zhongyao just said about the smiling spider. The smiley spider he's referring to is tiny, measuring just five millimeters in length. But the smiling face spider they saw was definitely not five millimeters in size.

Feifei felt that the size of this smiling spider might be twenty centimeters. Because if it wasn't so big, Feifei wouldn't feel it was a human face. After all, this body shape is similar to a human face.

Of course, what Feifei saw was the stomach of this smiling spider. If you add its head and those slender legs, its body shape must be even bigger.

It's just that they haven't come to see this smiling spider yet. 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 him is only five millimeters wide. ’ Feifei looked at his father and said.

After hearing what his son said, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said,'I'm talking about the smiling spider on the earth. This is Mercury, and the spiders on Mercury are of course different from those on Earth. Don't you feel that the spiders we saw before are very similar to the spiders on the earth. But their sizes are not the same. The spiders here are generally relatively large. '

After hearing what his father said, Feifei felt that it made sense. After all, the spiders they saw just now were relatively large. It's not like the little spiders on the earth at all. Because the little spiders on the earth are relatively small. It can't be compared with the large spiders on Mercury.

'Dad, let's go to the front and have a look! In this place, we dare to only see its smiling face. I don't even know what it looks like. '

Feifei became very interested in this smiling spider again. I just want to go and have a look. After all, they are still five or six meters away from this smiling spider! Only the smiling face of this smiling spider can be seen, but its whole body cannot be seen.

After hearing Feifei's words, Zhao Zhongyao said,'Okay, then let's go to the front and have a look again! Let's see what this smiling spider looks like. '

After finishing speaking, Zhao Zhongyao, Feifei, Qu Yuqian and Tiantian walked forward together. However, they are very careful. Because they were afraid to startle this smiling spider.

However, this smiling spider didn't seem to be afraid of them either. No matter how close they got, it just didn't move. To say that small animals like spiders are like this, they can stay there forever. They only act when their prey is present.

Animals are very patient in order to hunt successfully. They can lie there motionless, as if they are not an animal, but something.

Like a gecko, it can lie motionless in one place for hours in order to hunt successfully. It waits until a prey flies in front of it, and then it will suddenly act and bite the prey into its mouth.

In summer, if we observe carefully in some places with geckos, we will see the amazing hunting pictures of these small animals. They will lie on the wall motionless, until something like a small flying insect crawls to their mouths, and then they will suddenly open their mouths and bite the small flying insect into their mouths.

The same is true for this smiling spider. It seems to be waiting for some prey to appear. One stayed in this place, motionless. It was as if some prey was coming to this place ahead.

When Zhao Zhongyao, Feifei, Tiantian and Qu Yuqian came to this smiling spider, it remained motionless.

Now Zhao Zhongyao and the others are only about two meters away from this smiling spider. At such a close distance, they all saw the whole appearance of this smiling spider.

Zhao Zhongyao was also very miraculous when he saw the overall appearance of this smiling spider. Its belly is yellow,

The body is green and the 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 looks like a very good image. It's like someone drew a smiley face on its stomach.

This smiling face spider is really huge. It can be said that it is at least dozens of times larger than the smiling face spider on the earth. Because the smiling face of the smiling spider alone is 20 centimeters long and more than ten centimeters wide. Totally a giant smiley face.

And the eight legs of this spider 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, which naturally makes people feel a little cute and scary.

'Dad, this spider is really big! It seemed bigger than that tarantula. ’ Feifei looked at the huge smiling spider in front of him, and he felt very miraculous.

'yes! I also feel very incredible. Such a smiling spider is very small on earth. But the smiling spider on Mercury is as big as a washbasin, which is really unbelievable. '

Zhao Zhongyao looked at the smiling spider in front of him, and he also felt incredible. After all, they never imagined that this kind of smiling spider, which is very small on the earth, can grow so big on Mercury.

After hearing what Zhao Zhongyao said, Feifei said again,'Dad, what is this smiling spider doing! Why is it not moving! '