每日图片:黄蜂捕食狼蛛

即使您之前没有在国家地理特别节目中见过(我也没有见过),这是一只蛛蜂拖着狼蛛回家,这是我在哥斯达黎加旅行时有幸亲眼目睹的景象,当时我的妻子在那里沉浸在西班牙语学习中,为了获得ESL认证。

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即使您之前没有在国家地理特别节目中见过(我也没有见过),这是一只蛛蜂拖着狼蛛回家,这是我在哥斯达黎加旅行时有幸亲眼目睹的景象,当时我的妻子在那里沉浸在西班牙语学习中,为了获得ESL认证。(Y tambien escapando al marido. - 西班牙语,意为“并且也逃离丈夫。”)据我在一日游中遇到的两位导游说,我甚至没有在维基百科上粗略地查证过(vacaciones, compadre - 西班牙语,意为“假期,老兄”),黄蜂将麻痹性毒液注入狼蛛体内,将其拖到洞穴中,然后在蜘蛛身上产卵,孵化出的幼虫将蜘蛛作为即食餐食用。

美味。

这只avispa(西班牙语,意为“黄蜂”)就在小路上离整齐排列的切叶蚁几步之遥,一位导游称切叶蚁是哥斯达黎加唯一的军队。我后来想知道,每年这个旅游笑话会被重复使用多少次。


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来源:Dumb Yanqui Photo (“Dumb Yanqui”可能带有贬义,指“愚蠢的美国佬”照片)

 

Gary Stix, senior editor of mind and brain topics at 大众科学, edits and reports on emerging advances that have propelled brain science to the forefront of the biological sciences. Stix has edited or written cover stories, feature articles and news on diverse topics, ranging from what happens in the brain when a person is immersed in thought to the impact of brain implant technology that alleviates mood disorders such as depression. Before taking over the neuroscience beat, Stix, as 大众科学's special projects editor, was responsible for the magazine's annual single-topic special issues, conceiving of and producing issues on Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, climate change and nanotechnology. One special issue he oversaw on the topic of time in all of its manifestations won a National Magazine Award. With his wife Miriam Lacob, Stix is co-author of a technology primer called Who Gives a Gigabyte? A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed.

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