The 'terrifyingly scary' behavior of insects

Placing prey traps, knowing how to calculate the path, eating "smartphone" . are strange acts of insects.

Nature always contains so many intimidating scares by the appearance of small insects. However, just by understanding it more, we will realize that the insect world is complicated but contains a lot of beauty and mysterious hunting behavior. Let's review some mysterious and strange acts of insects through the synthesis of Listverse page below.

1. The "march" of caterpillars

As its name suggests, pine wood caterpillars are pine forests in Europe and Asia. Insects that seem to be innocent are extremely destructive with the ability to destroy 73% of pine forests in just one generation.

At birth, the caterpillar's food is only pine needles but once they are large enough, they gather, line up in order and start marching to eat other parts of the pine tree.

The operation started from the pine tree they were born in, after having "quickly defeated, destroyed the mother tree", the caterpillar flock moved to the ground and proceeded to the next "victim" . When night falls, they will return to the cocoon on the top of the tree to sleep and start their new journey when dawn comes.

2. 'troll' insects

During the expedition of the Suriname rainforest in South America, biologists discovered 60 unknown creatures. One of them is the tiny Nymth species. Through research, this unique insect will completely 'molt' when it matures, possessing a sparkling head with hair that looks like a pinch of hair.

Nymth's back-tail tail easily deceives predators by confusing them with its head and tail. Like the tail of the lizard, Nythm's tail may fall out to help them escape.

Besides, when threatened, this insect can jump hundreds of times higher than their height and the tail feathers will act as a paraglider to help them fly farther.

3. Ants set traps for prey

Allomerus decemarticulatus is an ant that lives in the Amazon jungle. Unlike other ants that only go and find what they accidentally find, Allomerus builds a deadly trap to attract prey.

Allomerus placed traps on stems and leaves, deftly disguising the trap door with natural fibers to take advantage of the tree itself and began to ambush with 40 other teammates.

When an insect hits the trap door, Allomerus will come out and grab one of its legs. After that, they sent a pheromone signal to their fellow humans and all rushed forward, grabbing the remaining leg of the ill-fated victim and pulling out the pulling force, creating a frightening sight.

4. Mushroom farm of ants

Leaf-cutting ants are famous for their ability to cut leaves and fold into nests. However, leaves will be used as fertilizer rather than food as many people believe.

Ants cut leaves concentrated in the thinnest soil to stimulate growth. They chew mushrooms that grow weaker and retain the fungus secreted from fungi. Next, they release untreated enzymes into the soil to initiate the decomposition process of the leaves, while providing nutrients for the fungus.

However, the most strange part is that some leaf-cutting ants are tasked with licking all the mushrooms. In this way, they secrete bacteria that kill fungi that could harm other plants' growth.

5. Ants know how to calculate the route

When a new food source is discovered, ants will set up the most time-consuming transport route. But more specifically, their route runs through many types of terrain to create the most scientific route.

If you encounter a certain terrain that makes ants difficult to move (mud, sand), they will follow the edge of the terrain to crawl on the flat road even if it is longer. However, ants do not hesitate to slip on difficult terrain if the method above makes them take too much time.

Every time an ant brings food to the nest, they leave a trace of pheromone. If there are too many pheromone glands, the latter will select the shortest route and strengthen it with its own pheromone. Thus, all routes will be attributed to the most effective one.

6. Ants eat "smartphone"

Appearing in the south of the United States, the "crazy ant" (Raspberry) with a microscopic size of only about 3mm and a very high survival ability can withstand even a series of pesticides that "stormed" a region wide.

They are creatures that haunt technology lovers because of their preference for electronic devices. With its small size, "crazy ants" easily slip into electronic devices like TVs, speakers, fans or even phones and nibble everything.

Moreover, this ant species also has herd behavior and aggression. They are ready to fight for food, destroy the remaining ones and occupy the nest of other ants.

7. Move to find bait to avoid being eaten

Each group of grasshoppers consists of millions of individuals and migrate together to search for protein. However, the motivation for them to move relentlessly is extremely strange. With such a large number of grasshoppers, only the first one can access food and as a result, the latter will lose part.

Angered by hunger, the "slow" characters will turn to attack the nearest protein source - the grasshopper heads badly. Therefore, even when they are full, the leading Mormon crickets are still moving constantly to make ends meet because they only need to stop, they will be eaten by the hungry fellow behind.