I was blown away by the longing for the live broadcast of the sea

Chapter 639 Cold knowledge has increased again, are insects the most successful creatures in evolution?
Hearing the conversation between Lin Yang and Yue Er, the audience in the live broadcast room were very happy!
"Really? That's great! I'd rather have a signed postcard from the anchor and Sister Yueer than St. Helena coffee!"

"This place can be regarded as a real original ecology. Even though there are human beings living in the small town of Jamestown on the other side of the island, most of the area is covered by vegetation and mountains."

"This is an island that people yearn for, and the people who live here are extremely laid-back and at ease."

"So, I'm even more curious about whether the anchor and sister Yue'er can take better photos of the heart-shaped waterfall."

"Good guy, the old man in front of you is more or less logical. What the anchor and sister Yue'er are going to shoot are natural landscapes, not rare wild animals. I think even if humans disappear on this island, The uncanny workmanship of nature will definitely still stand there!"

"I think you may have misunderstood what that old man meant. What he wanted to say was, will the anchor take more beautiful photos?"

While chatting and joking with the audience in the live broadcast room.

Lin Yang and Yue'er had already left the coastline and walked towards the valley of St. Helena Island.

Because he went out early in the morning and had a whole day's schedule, Lin Yang's itinerary would not change much on this small island.

After they arrived in St. Helena, within a few days before and after, according to Lin Yang's instructions, Yue'er has also been paying attention to whether there are fishermen or tourists witnessing giant sea monsters in the external news media again.

According to the scanning of system capabilities and the search for this route, Lin Yang believes that the next step is to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

You will definitely encounter A+ level rare creatures judged by the system.

In the short span of a few days, except for the recent sighting of a giant sea monster by the fishermen of St. Helena Island, there was no news report of another sighting by humans.

Such a result was within Lin Yang's expectations. After all, no matter whether it was Africa in the east or America in the west, there were only a handful of small islands adjacent to each other.

Even if this group of sea monsters reappears in the Atlantic Ocean, they may not be witnessed by humans, and naturally there will be no related news.

This is of course understandable.

About two hours passed.

In Lin Yang's lens, the blue sea and blue sky are no longer there.

Instead, there are verdant jungles and towering canyons.

Although the landform of St. Helena is mixed with coastlines, cliffs, canyons and jungles, compared to the ecological importance, it is far less than the Madagascar that Lin Yang passed through before.

This is equally understandable.

After all, Madagascar is much larger than St. Helena.

As far as an island of this size is concerned, St. Helena's landform features and ecological complexity are quite unique.

What the audience in the live broadcast room didn't expect was.

hours later.

Lin Yang and Yue'er entered the densely-vegetated forest on St. Helena Island.

In the footage of the live broadcast room, it can be vaguely seen that there is already a scene of vitality in the woods ahead.

Although they have sailed into the Atlantic Ocean at the moment, St. Helena can be regarded as a subtropical climate in terms of latitude and climate.

There is plenty of rain here, and under the condition of vegetation, it is a matter of course that it is full of vitality.

However, relying on Lin Yang's extraordinary eyesight, he could tell at a glance that in the scene recorded by the front camera, there were countless butterflies flying in the jungle like elves, flying in groups!
And these butterflies don't look like ordinary butterflies, they seem to have slightly different shapes.

"Look, brother Yang! There seem to be a lot of moths ahead!"

flutter
As soon as Yue'er finished speaking, Lin Yang couldn't help laughing out loud.

What a fluttering moth, the girl probably didn't see clearly what kind of creature appeared in the camera.

In the footage of the live broadcast room, groups of flying butterflies look very spectacular!

In the live broadcast room, tens of millions of sand sculpture netizens naturally liked to hear about it, not to mention that even in today's era of extremely developed economy, most of the people in the live broadcast room have never even been out of the territory of Longguo.

Therefore, I am full of doubts and curiosity about everything about this small island in the Atlantic Ocean. Every plant, tree, flower and butterfly is very novel.

After the swarms of butterflies appeared in Lin Yang's camera, the number of barrage comments from the water friends in the live broadcast room seemed to increase a lot.

"Anchor, is there any difference between this swarm of butterflies and our domestic butterflies?"

"It's too far away, I can't see clearly, it looks like there are a lot of them."

"Do butterflies, like bees, pollinate plants to thrive?"

"It looks a bit pretty, although it's a bit far away, but it feels like they are pink."

"Why do I look transparent?"

After all, butterflies are different from elephant seals before them.

If Sea Eagle Dabai was allowed to fly over in such a direct manner, it would probably disperse the large group of butterflies like birds and beasts, and disappear without a trace in an instant.

It was precisely because of this consideration that Lin Yang walked forward slowly with the camera in his hand.

He said in a deep voice to the audience in the live broadcast room: "Although things about Darwin's butterfly have been recorded in biology and related history, and even wild history."

"But we're still not sure if the butterflies seen on St. Helena are the same butterflies that Darwin described."

Yue'er took over the conversation, and said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "It is said that Darwin not only discovered a giant tortoise that could ride a man, but also an extremely beautiful tortoise flying in the valley during his scientific research on St. Helena. Butterflies. But because of the lack of relevant information, we can't know what those butterflies look like, and more detailed information."

"But from now on, those butterflies that entered the camera seem to be very beautiful!"

In fact, in terms of species on Earth alone.

Insects are a relatively successful kind of evolution.

Moreover, insect beetle creatures alone already account for 1/4 of the earth's species. This is cold knowledge that many water lovers in the live broadcast room do not know.

It is true that insects cause many problems, including the spread of disease and the destruction of crops.

Even so, it does not affect the ordinary audience's appreciation of the beautiful butterflies.

As Lin Yang and Yue'er kept getting closer, the butterflies that appeared in groups in the camera became clearer.

Their whole body is like transparent wings, and a pair of wings are slightly pink.

When the camera took close-up shots of these butterflies and presented their appearance in front of thousands of sand sculpture netizens in the live broadcast room.

The audience in the live broadcast room exploded in an instant!

The reason is very simple, not because of how special this thing is, just because it is so beautiful!

"Their wings are crystal-like, and on the lower pair of wings, there is even a slightly rose-like color!"

"They're like waving rose petals!"

"Are there really transparent butterflies in this world? And the patterns on them are really beautiful!"

"Isn't this the Darwin butterfly recorded by Darwin?"

"Can the anchor catch one and give it to me? I really like butterflies, especially beautiful butterflies (manual dog head, just kidding, it is forbidden to catch wild insects, start with you and me.)"

The focal length is elongated in the lens picture.

Locking butterflies like crystal wings, beautiful as if they are not real-world creatures.

Yue'er scratched her head curiously, and then she asked Lin Yang: "Brother Yang, although I don't know much about butterflies and other insects, in my knowledge, this thing should be a very rare species. Bar?"

There is no doubt that the instinct of human beings to judge people by their appearance, or to judge things by their appearance, is deeply rooted, as if it is deep in the genes.

Not only Yue'er, but even the tens of millions of viewers in the live broadcast room can be expected.

Such a beautiful butterfly should be a rare and expensive species.

However, just because the swarms of butterflies appearing in that shot are large in number, it seems that their rare value has been subtly devalued.

In fact, this is not a rare species.

After all, before this, Lin Yang did not receive any feedback from the system.

Lin Yang smiled and said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "These butterflies are called 'Rose Crystal Eyed Butterflies'. Their wings are as thin as a cicada's wings, and they are all transparent. The two pairs of wings behind are scattered with rose-colored, like Patterns like eyes."

"In the eyes of insect collectors, these are indeed relatively rare species. But in terms of species distribution in nature alone, they are not rare."

"On their hind wings, in addition to the rose-colored markings, there are also a small number of orange-yellow, or even orange and black markings."

all in all.

These butterflies are among the prettiest of butterflies.

While speaking, Lin Yang zoomed in on the camera even more.

However, both he and Yue'er tacitly stayed away from these butterflies.

They are busy in the jungle, floating on the flowers, under the sunshine of St. Helena, which is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, these butterflies look more beautiful and more dreamy.

The sun shines through their wings, and the butterflies wander in the forest.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Yang said with a smile to the audience in the live broadcast room: "Among all the existing species on the earth, insects should be regarded as a more successful evolution."

"Compared to other creatures, they have a 'secret weapon'. Of course, it can be regarded as a relatively special racial talent."

no doubt.

Lin Yang's words aroused the strong curiosity of tens of millions of viewers in the live broadcast room.

Secret weapon?Unique racial talent?What exactly are these things that Lin Yang mentioned?

It was Lin Yang's words that surprised the water friends in the live broadcast room.

In their view, the earth has produced many kinds of species during the billions of evolutions.

Among them, what impresses people the most is nothing more than the deep-sea behemoths living in the ocean, and the dinosaurs that once dominated the land for tens of millions of years.

They have absolutely excellent dominance and occupy the highest level of the food chain, leading the evolution of species for tens of millions of years.

However, what Lin Yang said now undoubtedly overturned the perception of some netizens!
It turns out that on this earth, insects are the most successful evolutionary creatures!
In the screen of the live broadcast room, as Lin Yang and Yue'er continued to approach, those 'rose crystal eye butterflies' dancing in the jungle appeared more clearly in the screen of the live broadcast room.

They are indeed as transparent as crystals, and there are eye-shaped patterns on the rear pair of wings, which is why the rose crystal eye butterfly got its name.

For example, as Lin Yang mentioned before, the tails of these beautifully shaped butterflies have a rose-pink color.

Although there are also butterflies such as orange and yellow and black, but compared to the larger species community, the proportion of butterflies of other colors is small.

Yue'er was quite puzzled and said: "Insects are one of the most evolved species in the world?"

There were many question marks in her big eyes.

Even after sailing with Lin Yang, because he needs to be competent in many scenes and understand marine life, he can better provide science popularization to the audience and improve the effect of the program when Lin Yang is inconvenient or diving.

So this girl crammed in a lot of biological knowledge about the ocean, and even about the terrestrial life on the island.

But for insects, butterflies, bees, and even small things like ants, Yue'er has never understood.

It is precisely because of this that the doubts in this girl's heart are not the same as those of the tens of thousands of water friends in the live broadcast room.

Lin Yang clearly recorded these butterflies with the camera, and then he said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "Although insects will have a slight impact on human society in terms of habitat and survival."

"Including damage to crops, as well as skin bites, I believe everyone will be bitten by mosquitoes in summer."

These problems have been accompanied by human development.

But there is no doubt that insects have survived the terrestrial era, and the number of species is extremely large.

The number of individuals is even greater, tens of thousands of times greater than the total number of human beings.

In fact, an important reason for the continuous evolution of insects to adapt to changes in the earth's environment is because they have strong exoskeletons.

Even from a human point of view, these insects are so weak that even killing an ant and a butterfly does not require any effort.

However, it is precisely because of the exoskeletons that these small but great species possessed during the evolution process.

In many cases, the reproduction of the entire species can be guaranteed, and even subspecies can be evolved.

On a global scale, there are actually too many new species discovered every year. For the Dragon Kingdom and the Eagle Sauce Kingdom alone, there may be more than 200 new species discovered.

Among these new species discovered, a large part comes from insects or arthropods.

From this point of view alone, their species diversity, as well as the overall quantity, far exceeds the perception of ordinary people.

Such as large mammals, or reptiles, in fact, the discovery of new species is far less than that of insects!

To put it bluntly, on this beautiful blue earth.

Today, with extremely advanced science and technology, and when humans have a better understanding of the natural environment, there are still many insects and small arthropods that humans have never seen before, all over this beautiful earth.

There is no doubt that, even if Lin Yang has not yet been named, the exoskeleton that survives in the evolution of insects is the key factor for the continued development of insect species and the generation of branched subspecies.

But just because of that sentence just now, it has overturned the cognition of most water friends!
"Before that, I thought insects were just the most inconspicuous creatures in the world. The anchor's words gave me a new understanding of these insects!"

"I don't care if they evolve successfully or not, I just know that the butterflies photographed by the anchor are really beautiful!"

"They are made of glass, transparent and beautiful, and the sunlight can even pass through their wings, as if adding a more dreamy filter to their beauty!"

"I think if there is no accident, Darwin should have encountered such a butterfly on St. Helena back then, but there is a relative lack of records about its physical characteristics and related habits, so that later generations cannot understand it better. What the hell is a Darwin butterfly."

"It's done beautifully!"

And over the billions of years that the Earth has evolved.

Too many creatures are like passing clouds, even the overlords like dinosaurs have become history.

However, only a small number of species have survived to this day, and insects seem to have never withdrawn from the stage of history.

Perhaps, it is precisely because they are inconspicuous, perhaps because they are spread all over the world, and their huge number maintains the reproduction of species, so that they can find a suitable ecological niche in every era of the earth's history.

Today, they are still active all over the world.

It is precisely because of the evolution of the exoskeleton of insects that not only can resist predators, but can even rely on the exoskeleton as an organ to sense the environment, all over the world!
And adapt to harsh and changeable environments such as dryness, humidity, severe cold, and intense heat.

Therefore, from deserts to jungles, from extreme cold to extreme heat, almost in any environment, you can see different forms of insects, appearing in different environments in different shapes!
Their exoskeletons can be very good for camouflage and defense. Stick insects and lantern insects are very good examples.

at the same time.
As Lin Yang mentioned before, bones also lead to another advantage of insectoid creatures.

They can evolve themselves into smaller sizes, such as the dinosaurs that dominated the Earth for 6000 million years.

They are able to grow to an unrivaled size because they have endoskeletons capable of supporting enormous weight.

But if you switch to insect creatures, when the size doubles, their exoskeleton will become 4 times larger than it is now!
In this way, the body of insect-like creatures will be bloated and heavy, which will bring many disadvantages.

According to incomplete statistics, among all the insects all over the world, it can reach the largest body size, about 140 grams.
The heaviest known insect in the world is the giant sandworm. Even the well-known unicorn weighs no more than 120 grams.

Lin Yang was using the camera in his hand to record the dancing 'Crystal Rose-Eyed Butterfly' with a very graceful shape and body.

He continued: "The smaller size of insects means that less food is needed to survive."

In extremely barren environments, it is possible to find enough food to sustain life.

Many insects have wings and have mastered the ability to fly.

Then they can get rid of hidden dangers that may pose a threat to their life safety, and can find safer habitats, establish new groups, find safer habitats, and obtain new food sources.

To put it bluntly: Wings are very important, and the reduction of body size is also very important!

Before this.

Lin Yang's proposal about insects such as butterflies is one of the more successful evolutionary species.

The tens of thousands of sand sculpture netizens in the live broadcast room were dumbfounded just now, but now they are enlightened!

"In this way, insects occupy too many unique advantages in the earth's environment. The mere fact that they can fly with a smaller body has already discouraged many creatures!"

"Yesterday, I read the news. There is a group of elephants migrating in the south of the colorful clouds. They are relatively heavy. During the migration from south to north, they will consume a lot of energy and even cause casualties! If elephants have wings, You don’t need to suffer so much.”

"After being told by the anchor, I want to be a butterfly!"

"You and I are lingering and flying? Flying across this world of mortals forever?"

"Good guy, Liang Zhu's call to expert + +! Pang Long's call to expert + 2!"

Lin Yang went on to say: "During the evolution of insects, which are already blessed by nature, any form of insect can produce a very large number of eggs during the process of reproduction."

After the mother lays eggs, she can be left alone.

Perhaps the survival rate of these eggs is not 100%, but after the eggs grow, there is no need for parenting problems that mammals such as seals and whales need to worry about.

After Lin Yang's introduction.

The viewers in the live broadcast room instantly thought that this child is like a La Baba, and the number of reproduction is large, so there is no need to worry about the survival of these eggs.

The combination of various reasons has made insects the most biological species in the world, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Yue'er scratched her nose and said, "Although we only took pictures of these beautiful butterflies, but subtly, so much cold knowledge about insects was stuffed in by Brother Yang qaq"

Regarding Yueer's statement.

The audience in the live broadcast room deeply agreed.

"That's not it! Let me just say, why do mosquitoes never die in summer?"

"I think, if the world has to choose one species to go extinct, I would definitely choose mosquitoes!"

"During a unique evolutionary process, it is not uncommon for these insects to be able to spread all over the world."

"The useless cold knowledge has increased again!"

however.

What everyone didn't expect was that when Lin Yang introduced the popular science of insects such as butterflies.

In the screen of the live broadcast room, those butterflies whose wings are as thin as a cicada's wings, and transparently dotted with rose pink, unexpectedly
(End of this chapter)