2. Strong sense of direction.
3, some big feelings can care for the next generation.
4, not for difficulties and obstacles, bravely move forward.
Excerpts from the original text:
It is said that bees have the ability to tell directions. Wherever they fly, they can always go back to their original place. I want to do an experiment. One day, I caught some bees in the honeycomb in my garden and put them in paper bags. In order to prove that I set the bees flying back to the garden, I made a white mark on their backs.
Then, I asked my little daughter to wait by the beehive, walked more than two miles with twenty marked bees, opened the paper bag and let them out. Those bees that have been bored for a long time are flying in all directions, as if looking for the direction to go home. At this time, the wind blew, and the bees flew very low, almost touching the ground, probably reducing the resistance.
I thought, how can they see the distant home when they fly so low? On the way home, I speculated that the bees might not find their home. Before she stepped into the house, her little daughter rushed over, blushing and looking very excited. She shouted, "There are two bees flying back! They returned to the hive at 2: 40, covered in pollen. "
It was two o'clock when I released the bees, that is to say, in forty minutes, two little bees flew more than two miles, including the time to collect pollen. It's getting dark, and we haven't seen any other bees fly back. When I checked the hive the next day, I found fifteen more bees with white spots on their backs.
In this way, seventeen of the twenty bees did not get lost and returned home accurately. Although they flew against the wind and had some strange scenery along the way, they did fly back. Bees don't rely on extraordinary memory, but an instinct that I can't explain.
This article is taken from Entomology by Jean-Henri casimir Fabres.
Extended data writing background:
Bees is an article written by Fabres, which comes from his work Insects. This paper describes an experiment he did in the first person, that is, to confirm whether bees have the ability to distinguish directions, which embodies the author's rigorous scientific attitude and realistic style. This work is an insect biology work that summarizes the species, characteristics, habits and mating habits of insects and records the real life of insects.
It expresses the spirituality of insects in struggle for existence, and also records Fabres's motivation, life ambition, knowledge background and life state of being obsessed with insect research. The author combines the colorful life of insects with his own life feelings, treats insects with a human attitude, and reveals his respect and love for life between the lines.
In addition, this book not only records Fabres's research achievements in detail, but also records Fabres's motivation, life ambition, knowledge background and living conditions, especially Alma Lab, Atavism, My School, Pond and Mathematical Memory: Newton Binomial.
Memories of mathematics: my little desk, childhood memories, unforgettable classes and industrial chemistry. If we look at it from another angle, we might as well regard Insect as Fabres's autobiography, a very peculiar autobiography. Insects are only evidence of his research experience and circumstantial materials of his biography.
About the author:
Jean-Henri casimir Fabres (1823- 19 15) is a famous French entomologist and writer. Known by the world as "Homer in the insect world" and "Virgil" in the insect world. He painted more than 700 pictures of fungi in watercolor, which was deeply appreciated and loved by Provencal poet mistral. He also contributed to the bleaching and dyeing industry and obtained three alizarin patents.
Fables insisted on self-study for half his life, and successively obtained bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree in mathematics, bachelor's degree in natural science and doctor's degree in natural science. He is proficient in Latin and Greek and loves the works of Horace, an ancient Roman writer, and Virgil, a poet.
He almost taught himself painting and watercolor painting, and many of his exquisite illustrations of fungi were praised by the Nobel Prize in Literature winner and French poet Frederic mistral.
In his later years, Fabres's success in insects won him the reputation of "Homer of insects" and "Virgil of insects", and his achievements were widely recognized by the society. Although fabrice has won many scientific titles, he is still as simple, shy and humble as ever, and leads a poor life.
His talent was admired by scholars at that time, including British biologist Darwin, Belgian playwright maeterlinck, Nobel Prize in Literature winner of 19 1 1, German writer Jung, French philosopher Bergson, poet Malamei, Provence writer Roumani, and so on.