Saturday, January 1, 2011

Humans can't win in six major insect Legion

Fire ants family

Human in millions of years of evolutionary process gradually became the ruler of the Earth, especially with modern civilization of mankind, but also to its state-of-the-art technology, intelligent mind control of everything on the Earth. Even the Earth's most ferocious animals cannot escape the human Palm, Tigers, Lions, leopards, crocodiles, sharks, etc. It can be said that access to modern civilization of mankind, and truly become the soul of the world, dominated the Earth.

However, seemingly powerful man, really can overcome all living things? the answer is no. What kind of biological beings racking and helpless? might say you can guess what: they are insects. We anyone feel free to cite many such small insects, like locusts, mosquitoes, cockroaches, WaSP, and so on. In these small but powerful animal, human most appropriate analogy might be "Qian's donkey", Monster and useless.

Fire ants Legion — civilization's nemesis

Fire ants is a native to South America, Paraguay and Panama Canal area of insects, mainly in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and other countries. It and we are familiar with Ant is next of kin. However it is not a common insects, is the world's 100 against the most serious one of the famous invasive species.

Fire ants once the invasion, people being harassed. They can turn the soil-soil-dwelling animals, destruction of soil predation. They also eat fruit crops, cattle and roots, to agriculture in a big way. Fire ants to humans and other animals attack against very large, its poison when acupuncture dived into the skin, causing people to produce a burning like pain and blistering. But, even more frightening is that in the modern electronic warfare dominated today, fire ant army began to mankind's high-tech circuit attack. Current fire ants easily angered, is short circuit electric shocks to death by fire ants will release a pheromone to attract Fire Ant army cause larger circuit. United States airports because of fire ants lead to short-circuit hampered because of fire ants traffic lights led line burned. Fire ants hazards to humans of the production life caused huge losses. The United States, the Fire Ant annually causes economic damage up to billions of dollars, have been reported more than one person as a result of fire ants attack and died.

Fire ants expansion speed very quickly, you can every day to tens of kilometres. 1930 due to quarantine negligence invasion in North America, has passed 13 State in the southern United States, which makes the United States have the world's biggest fire ant legions. At the beginning of the century New Zealand, Australia and passed in our parts of Taiwan Province. Early this year, China's inland areas of Guangdong wuchuan, first discovered the fire ants.

Intrusion prevention of fire ants rather difficult, as long as fire ants cannot be 100% extinction, fire ants will stage a comeback, part of their nests will move to nearby regions, speeding up the expansion speed.

Killer Bee — man-made disaster

The Earth never kill bees this variety, which is a self-righteous man to change nature of evil. In the middle of the 20th century, American continent only European bees. But the European bee is not adapted to local climatic, producing honey quantity is not high. In 1956, Brazil Sao Paulo University scientists to solve this problem will be collecting honey and propagation and strong African honey bee and European bees for natural mating and hope to gain the advantages of both a set of new varieties. Who knows, against all expectations, the product — Africa of bees and cannot increase the amount of production rather than honey bee character more violent, aggressive or stronger. Then, as a result of management oversight, 1957, a group of African of bees from the laboratory to escape into the nearby forest. So to kill bees appeared.

Africa-bees return to the wild to the entire American continent after a disaster. Their reproduction is extremely strong, and even if mating with European bees, and their offspring are African of bees. Subsequently, this bee exponential increase of the number, not a fat, according to experts, the "American Killer Bee" total exceeded 10 billion. And they naturally suspicious, vulnerable to disturb, often from 15 metres began mercilessly attack their view of "the intruder" attack time can take up to 3 hours, in pursuit of the distance of up to several kilometres. At present, the southernmost South America, until the United States Southern States, killing bees from time to time out "," wounding message. "American killing Bee" that is so. Last 50 years has resulted in the Organization of American States 1000 deaths, was the attack after the wounded are countless.

Although people took great pains to want to deal with the "American Killer Bee", but haven't found to eradicate this scourge. Not long ago, accidentally discovered the gentle South Africa bees and bee killers "Americas" offspring is a relatively moderate new varieties. At present, some research has been conducted experiments, hope that this will ultimately solve the "American killing bees". At the same time, we hope that this approach does not have other consequences.

Termites-King of the tunnel

Compared to kill bees and fire ants, termites can be regarded as antagonistic senators and humans. It is so far the Earth's oldest social insect. People discovered the earliest termite fossils is $ 3 million years ago during the Cretaceous fossils of early.

Termite damage area in the world for more than half of the continental area, has been listed as one of the world's top five pests, is worldwide and large insects. In some places even the termites are known as "toothless tiger". It really is nothing hone, food covering food, clothing, shelter, etc.: crops, trees, House, river bank, even if modern traffic, telecommunications facilities, are not escape it. Thousands of miles of levees, failure to eliminate the consequences of termite decay of image description. But, even more frightening is that of hidden termite, they secretly holes, secretly digging until often have been found to have failed to pick up to the point, it is too late.

This compromise allows for thousands of years people struggle with termites have never stopped, but human beings never really overcome termites. Always here off termite Basic, there is a

Now. Imagine more than human termites a long history, when human extinction may still flourishing and termites.

These are social insects, they have let people do, but more powerful is the lone warriors-insects, they sometimes do not need to be organized, just by itself or you can create a number of powerful combat ability.

Mosquito-blood-sucking insects

Every summer, almost every one of us on to mosquito bites a few bites. This lets people headaches blood-sucking insects has 100 million years of history, evolution, mosquitoes are well adapted to various dangerous environment. But the mosquitoes not just suck your blood, it is filling the belly, it can spread like infectious encephalitis, dengue fever, yellow fever, malaria, filariasis, leishmaniasis and other diseases. Who had mosquitoes identified as "a threat to human health of the public enemy number one." According to who statistics, due to the mosquitoes spread, every year millions of people die from malaria, and at least 100 million people died from the disease.

Human beings and the mosquito's long struggle, invented the mosquito nets, mosquito coils, mirex, insect killers, etc. all kinds of products. Spray-on point mirex, mosquito coils, m. ran the mosquito, but also had smoked herself. It can be said that in the process it uses physical, chemical, optical, etc., but unfortunately, in this little insects before once again showed their own incompetence.

But please don't lose heart, the application of gene technology lets us see more hope. Now, scientists are trying to Italy on mosquitoes of genetic restructuring, so that these blood-sucking ' greed into vegetarian. Whereas the United Kingdom's scientists want to kill the p. falciparum transmission of gene transfer to the illness of Anopheles, let them become the protector of malaria. These have benefited on mosquito gene. The exposure of the genetic code, will allow mosquitoes with human struggle into retreat. Scientists also have a more wonderful idea, namely, the use of gene method mosquito artificial sterilization. Hope that one day, mosquitoes and malaria, dengue fever and other infectious diseases disappear from the face of the Earth, humanity and the mosquito war completely become history.

Cockroaches — dark corner of the rogue

The cockroach is also one of the oldest insects, the Earth has 3.5 billion years of history, in this long history, not to be eliminated, the nature and the ecological characteristics of cockroaches have a great relationship.

Cockroaches prefer warm, moist environment multiplied, it originated in the high temperature, high humidity of Africa. Cockroaches bred ability strong, even the large cockroach has been drugs kill, it remains in the body of the egg can grow up to be small cockroaches, such reproduction, listen to just creepy. Cockroaches are afraid of the night, day light, they are hiding in all you can imagine in a dark corner, such as wall joints, table, article heap, drain, or even printed circuit boards. At night, particularly even lights are off, their activities began, from the shelter site crawl out, biting everywhere to find food. Cockroaches are omnivorous animal, most people eat it eat, therefore the faecal bacteria can easily spread to humans.

Reproductive ability Super cockroach let have modern civilized human beings hurt. Even if the entire building only a cockroach, a long time, they are confusing and rampant in each House. Variety of countless insectisides, equipment was not essentially play, perhaps the most effective method of prevention is to keep roaches carried into the House, and House to spotless, little food and don't leave this rogue.

Scientists have concluded that even human extinction, cockroaches will also remain so I live.

However there is a good news recently, researchers have invented a cockroach "perfume" can turn cockroaches out from the dark corners, and then get attracted and kill.

And many other insects, when female cockroach wants to mate, it emits a pheromone to attract the opposite sex, male cockroach would soon follow this pheromone with aromas. Researchers will pheromones from the cockroaches in purification of specimens extracted according to the results of the chemical analysis to produce a synthesis of the cockroach information has always been to lure male cockroach, and then killing them together. With this exclusive perfume, cockroaches cockroaches hiding in the corner, make up the Horn on willingly come out to accept fate.

Locusts – Super Bandit

Mentioned locusts, we will associate the omnipresent locust teams would have thought that after the devastation of locust swarms-courses and pastures. This pest to tremble with fear, because they are of direct threat to human and animal food rations. In the past 2000 years of history, recorded 8 times larger locust, six million people displaced peasants, everywhere.

This Super in robber called locust, often flocked distance migratory, flying rapidly, not pause to dozens of hours of continuous flight, it can fly hundreds of miles, high degree of 2000 meters above the sea level. They had to eat the rice fields, pastures were dismantled, or even a day can eat a million city year rations.

While the the locust not socialized insects, what factors make them up the rest of the human and animal food rations to attacks? this may and their spawn habits and physical habits. When the female locust laying eggs on oviposition sites require higher, therefore, suitable nesting site is relatively small. So, they probably are concentrated in a small place to lay their eggs. This allows uniform hatching, the larvae of grasshoppers and initially formed a move closer to each other, mutual follow life habits. Moreover, grasshoppers, locusts on the ground, and will strive to respond to the sensor, thus, increasing locust teams.

Locust fly over, not just a country suffering, so many locust serious countries have joined forces to countering this pest. Australia and even the establishment of a special radar monitoring locust movements. In the human struggle with grasshoppers, human strength may be gradually strengthened. At present, human beings have

Find a fungus as a weapon, but their power are engraved in human sweat.

All of these in humans lawlessness of small insects, may claim the big man, and not a bad thing. At least, they let the person know, humans in some ways powerlessness.

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