Lesson 2 Spare that spider不要伤害蜘蛛
Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because theydestroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies ofthe human race.Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world;they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were notfor the protection we get from insect-eating animals.We owe a lot to the birdsand beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction ofthe number destroyed by spiders.Moreover, unlike some of the other insecteaters, spiders never do the least harm to us or our belongings.
Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearlyrelated to them.One can tell the difference almost at a glance, for a spideralways has eight legs and an insect never more than six.
How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf? Oneauthority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the southof England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre;that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a footballpitch.Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects.It isimpossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but theyare hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day.It has beenestimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain inone year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in thecountry.
你可能会觉得奇怪,蜘蛛怎么会是我们的朋友呢?因为它们能消灭那么多的昆虫,其中包括一些人类的大敌。要不是人类受一些食虫动物的保护,昆虫就会使我们无法在地球上生活下去,昆虫会吞食我们的全部庄稼,杀死我们的成群的牛羊。我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽,然而把它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。此外,蜘蛛不同于其他食虫动物,它们丝毫不危害我们和我们的财物。
许多人认为蜘蛛是昆虫,但它们不是昆虫,甚至与昆虫毫无关系。人们几乎一眼就能看出二者的差异,因为蜘蛛都是8条腿,而昆虫的腿从不超过6条。
有多少蜘蛛在为我们效力呢?一位研究蜘蛛的权威对英国南部一块草坪上的蜘蛛作了一次调查。他估计每英亩草坪里有225万多只蜘蛛。这就是说,在一个足球场上约有600万只不同种类的蜘蛛。蜘蛛至少有半年忙于吃昆虫。它们一年中消灭了多少昆虫,我们简直无法猜测,它们是吃不饱的动物,不满意一日三餐。据估计,在英国蜘蛛一年里所消灭昆虫的重量超过了这个国家人口的总重量。
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