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Initially the sting or the venom was to paralyse or immobilise prey, |
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because the ancestors would have been parasitic on a eating prey, and they' d sting the prey to paralyse it so they could lay eggs in them without the prey running away, or they' d immobilise it completely, like the pompilidae wasps. Yeah. Do you get entomologists who try their mettle by putting the insects on them, who can take the hardest sting? Well, I don' t know any personally, but there are some as one in chaps in the States who' s done it, you know. Really? Called Phil de Rees, purposely got stung by various wasps and a scorpion near just to find out what the pain was like. That' s great, but that would be a quite good entomological drinking game, you know, are you tough enough? I suppose it would be, wouldn' t it, yes. Alongside the insect collections are some creatures that for many people are even more unpopular than stinging insects. But even the ones we find hardest to love have found one fan here at the museum. |
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yī kāi shǐ, tā men de cì hé dú yè, shì wèi le má bì liè wù. tā men de zǔ xiān chèn liè wù mì shí. jì shēng zài tā men shēn shàng, zhé yī xià liè wù, shǐ zhī má bì, rán hòu zài wú fǎ dòng tan de liè wù tǐ nèi chǎn luǎn, zhū fēng zé néng shǐ liè wù wán quán tān huàn. yǒu méi yǒu dǎn zi dà de kūn chóng xué jiā, gù yì yào bèi zuì lì hài de chóng zi zhé yī xià ne? wǒ běn rén bù rèn shi, bù guò wǒ tīng shuō yǒu gè jiào fēi ěr dé lǐ sī de měi guó rén, gù yì zhǎo gè zhǒng fēng zhé zì jǐ. yǒu cì hái zhǎo lái le xiē zǐ, jiù xiǎng zhī dào yǒu duō tòng, nà kě yǐ hē jiǔ shí wán a, kàn shuí zuì kàng zhé. què shí, dà gài tǐng hǎo wán. zài kūn chóng shōu cáng zhōng, hái yǒu yī lèi shēng wù, bǐ huì zhé yǎo de kūn chóng gèng bù shòu huān yíng. jí shǐ shì nèi xiē wǒ men zuì shòu bù liǎo de chóng, zài bó wù guǎn yě yǒu zì jǐ de fěn sī. |