Chapter 246: Push the dung beetle, the dung beetle
There are countless creatures with strange eating habits in the magical nature.
Some like to eat meat, some like to eat grass, some like to eat wood, some like to eat soil, and some like to eat microorganisms and bacteria.
But compared to the creature Lin Shuhang encountered today, the food eaten by other creatures was extremely weak.
The creature Lin Shuhang encountered was no other creature, but the famous one - the dung beetle, a strange creature that feeds on feces.
Dung beetles are also called dung beetles. Because they like to eat excrement, they are also known as dung beetles, pill-pushing beetles, dung-rolling cows, dung-pushing crawlers, dung coccidia, armored generals, and cart bugs.
There are many types of this creature and it is extremely widely distributed on the earth. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 2,300 species of dung beetles in the world. It has its footprints on every continent except the cold Antarctic continent.
As the most common insect among coprophagous beetles, dung beetles like to use human and animal excrement as food and nesting materials.
They have unique hobbies and have been dealing with feces all their lives. Just like sanitation workers in the city, they tirelessly search for feces in nature every day.
Once they find human or animal excrement, these creatures will be so excited that they will turn the feces into round dung balls, and then roll them to a hidden place to store them for later use. They are a very unique kind of creature.
In the eyes of humans, feces are dirty excrement. Except for plants, no living thing with the ability to move will eat feces.
Dung beetles are different. They like to eat feces just like humans like to eat grain and animals like to eat meat. Although the feces is smelly and contains many bacteria and parasites, for the dung beetles and their larvae, the feces are a source of maintenance.
Food essential to life.
The reproduction of this creature is inseparable from the excrement of humans and animals. Whenever it is the season for collective mating of creatures, they will lay their eggs on the dung balls prepared in advance. After a few days, the dung beetle larvae are born.
That feces will become a food source for the dung beetle larvae to grow.
After eating the delicious poop balls prepared by their mothers, the larvae will become adults.
When the dung beetle grows up, it will inherit the excellent genes and qualities of the dung beetle family, become a great and hard-working "natural sanitation worker" like its father, and contribute to the earth's environment and the continuation of the race.
Therefore, you will find such a magical phenomenon, that is, wherever there is dung, there must be dung beetles! Wherever there are dung beetles, the place must be clean, without leaving any dung residue.
Like ants, dung beetles are also very powerful creatures. They can push things much larger than their own bodies. The only difference is that the strength of ants is reflected in their teeth, while the strength of dung beetles is reflected in their hind legs.
superior.
A dung beetle the size of an old village chief's liquor bottle cap can easily push a dung ball weighing two to two. If it were put into proportions, it would be very amazing.
For example, the prehistoric giant dung beetle that Lin Shuhang encountered now, although its body only weighs four to five hundred kilograms, can push a giant dung ball weighing seven to eight tons effortlessly, making it a veritable Hercules.
"No wonder this big dung ball can roll on its own. There is a bug hiding behind it?" Lin Shuhang's eyes widened at the sight in front of him. But he soon recognized that the bug was a dung beetle.
"What kind of bug is this? Does it look familiar?" Lin Shuhang stood next to the dung ball and carefully looked at the black beetle behind the dung ball. He quickly recognized that it was a kind of insect that he had had contact with before.
Creature - the famous dung beetle.
Lin Shuhang had a brief experience of living in the countryside before.
When he was a child, Lin Shuhang would be sent by his mother to live with his grandma in the countryside for a month or two every summer vacation. The reason was also helpless. When he was a child, the boy was too naughty and his parents were busy at work. They had no time to take care of and discipline him, so they could only leave him alone.
He was sent to the countryside to exercise and live.
At that time, rural conditions were poor, and many people did not have toilets at home. Even if there were toilets, they were dry toilets.
What is an aqua toilet? It means digging a big pit on the ground with a shovel, and pooping and peeing in it. After using it, you don't flush it with water, you just put on your pants and leave.
First, because of the lack of information and backward education in the past, rural people had little knowledge and their hygiene awareness was far from as high as it is now. Many people did not know that there were such things as toilets and septic tanks in the world.
Then again, even if you know there are toilets and septic tanks, where should you buy them? Do you have the money to buy them? How will you use them after buying them? Will you get used to sitting down to defecate? This is still a big question.
Second, because of the difficulty in drinking water in rural areas, it was not as convenient as now that every household has running water. Many families use underground well water.
Not to mention the past, even today in the 21st century, there are still some remote areas where the whole village shares a well.
We have to use a pole to carry water from the village to our home. We are exhausted. How can we have extra water to flush the toilet? Isn’t this an international joke?
So you can never imagine the horror of the dry toilet. The feces, urine, paper, tree leaves, and all kinds of debris and garbage are piled up in that big pit to ferment naturally.
Over time, flies will lay eggs in the feces, and the eggs will turn into maggots, and a large area of white flowers will roll around in the feces. The smell, the sight... I guarantee that you will never want to poop in the dry toilet.
After all, Lin Shuhang is a city dweller, not a native of the countryside. He is used to using the toilet. He only used the rural dry toilet once and he had a psychological shadow. He almost fainted in the toilet. He will never use the dry toilet in the future.
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But people need to eat every day of their lives. As long as they eat, they will be excreted. If they are not excreted, feces and urine will accumulate in the intestines.
Being able to endure a day or two without pooping, but being able to go without pooping for dozens of days during a summer vacation is something that only gods can do.
A living person cannot be choked to death by shit, so when Lin Shuhang lived in the countryside, in order to avoid being fainted in the shit pit, he usually defecated in the wild and in the fields.
In the countryside of his grandma's home, Lin Shuhang had no less than ten areas dedicated to defecation, including but not limited to fields and houses in the village. But Lin Shuhang's favorite place to go was the small woods behind the village.
The grove has a beautiful environment, and the key is that it is next to Li Goudan's house.
When Li Goudan was sent to the countryside by his parents for the first time, he had some minor quarrels with him because he saw Lin Shuhang more in the crowd, so defecating at the wall of his yard was also a small revenge for Lin Shuhang. Normally,
Whenever he had nothing to do, he would go to the small forest next to his house to poop. The highest he pooped was 20 times a day. Li Goudan was so angry that he scolded the village street every day.
The reason is that there are a lot of flies in summer. After licking their feces, those blowflies fly to the kitchen room on the other side of the wall to lick the steamed buns and cutting boards. They buzz so hard that they can’t even chase them away. If it were you, would you?
I don’t know why, but I feel like there were a lot of insects in rural areas in the past. When Lin Shuhang pooped in the woods, he often encountered dung beetles.
Sometimes after pooping in the morning, I would go there in the afternoon and see that the ground was completely empty. A pile of feces, whether dry, wet, thick or thin, had all been emptied by the dung beetles.
Therefore, Lin Shuhang had some understanding of creatures like dung beetles, and he recognized this creature almost instantly as the famous dung beetle.
"That's right! This kind of bug is a dung-rolling cow." Lin Shuhang sighed and said to the live broadcast camera: "I didn't expect to encounter this kind of creature again after so long. It's really interesting to think about it."
After many years, Lin Shuhang was very excited to meet the dung-rolling cow in his childhood memories again. You must know that now that conditions are better, it is rare to see this kind of creature again, even in remote rural areas.
"No wonder these big dung balls can roll on their own. It turns out there are dung beetles pushing them from behind!"
"I didn't expect that the dung beetle in prehistoric times was so big? Apparently, this prehistoric dung beetle must have weighed four to five hundred kilograms, right?"
"Tsk tsk! That's really a lot of experience!"
Some viewers curiously asked Lin Shuhang: "Anchor, don't you have the special ability to fuse the genes of other creatures? Do you want this dung beetle to devour it?"