A skilled hunters Story

A skilled hunters Story

A type of insect like a bhimrul roams around the house. Very fickle. It comes quickly, leaves something on the wall of a corner of the house and runs away again. After a while, it returns again. I kept an eye on it for a few days. A pile of mud has gathered in that corner of the wall. Then I noticed the insect very carefully. A very small drop of mud on its face. It brings it from outside again and again. That mud eventually turns into a pile. That pile of mud is the bhimrul's nest.

In the village, it is called the mud beetle, which makes its nest out of mud! In fact, it is also a type of beetle. It does not use mud to build its house. It looks around carefully to find suitable mud. Then it mixes its own saliva with the mud and builds its nest by sticking it together.

The inside of that pile of mud is hollow. The inside is as smooth as the outside walls are rough. From the outside, you can't find the face of the house of insects.

So how does the insect get inside? How does it breathe?

I didn't know then, but I learned as I grew up. Insects don't build these houses for themselves. They build them for their children and grandchildren.

The inside of the house is as smooth as it is cold. It's cold even without a door.

How?

While building that mud house, Mother Bhimrul made numerous holes in the wall. We cannot see those holes with the naked eye. A lot of air enters through all those holes. The environment inside keeps it cool. As a result, there is no shortage of oxygen inside.

Once the nest is built, they go out in search of insects such as caterpillars and spiders. Whenever they find someone, they stick their stingers on their backs, like skilled hunters.

The sting of the wasp contains a poisonous substance. The poison paralyzes the affected insects. Like paralyzed patients. They are alive, but not moving.

Of course, she arranges those insects beautifully inside the house. Then the mother moth lays eggs inside the house. Finally, the mother moth comes out and closes the door of the house.

After a few days, the eggs hatch and the chicks emerge. By then, however, the nest has dried out and become completely hard.

The mother is not around. Yet the chicks do not have to worry about food or comfort. There are some dead and whole live insects as food.

As soon as the food supply runs out, the chicks grow up. They then crawl out of the house by themselves. But the chicks never see the mother who worked so hard. By then, the poor mother may have been eaten by a bird of prey or a chameleon.

And even if she is alive, just as she will not recognize her children when she sees them, her children will not recognize their mother either. Yet how much the mother suffered for them in the last stages of her life! Mothers are like that! A mother's appearance does not change, regardless of caste or even animal.