Species of ornamental insects

According to the ornamental contents provided by ornamental insects, they can be divided into three types: singing ornamental insects, sports ornamental insects, body ornamental insects, luminous ornamental insects and colored ornamental insects.

Singing ornamental insects

Insects that have vocal organs and can make pleasant sounds belong to this kind of common insects, such as cicadas, crickets, iguanas, etc. They often give people a sense of closure and pleasure with pleasant sounds, especially the tense life, work rhythm and frequent dry sound environment in modern cities, which easily make people nervous and tired. Therefore, listening to insects and feeling the sounds of nature after work and study is of great benefit to regulating body and mind. This kind of insect can be seen in flower and bird markets in many cities, and it is especially loved by the elderly and children.

Sports ornamental insects

Including crickets with fighting habits, beetles with good flight endurance, kowtowing insects and so on. , giving people the feeling of sports and entertainment. Cricket fighting is a traditional folk activity in China, which has lasted for thousands of years. Beginning before the Song Dynasty, there was a considerable scale in the early Song Dynasty. From the court to the people, from Dayi in Kyoto to the mainland, there are many plays to promote textiles. At present, there are still considerable cricket markets in large and medium-sized cities in China, such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Macao, and the price of small crickets is higher.

In many areas of our country, bamboo elephants or scarabs are made into a kind of "mill" toy, which makes insects rotate and fly, which is very popular with children.

Body decoration insect

This kind of insects are strange, weird or beautiful in shape, including stick insects, mantis, biting insects, horned cicadas and various mimicry insects. They embody the magical power of nature, show the struggle for existence of biology and the law of natural selection, and are intriguing and ornamental.

Glowing insect

Fireflies are luminous insects. In the summer night, the grass in the forest and the stars twinkle, echoing the starlight in the night sky, creating a beautiful and peaceful pastoral picture. In ancient China, people used fireflies for lighting; Mexican women like the custom of using firefly nets as headdresses.

Colored ornamental insects

It mainly refers to LEPIDOPTERA insects with large butterfly wings, and its ornamental value is mainly reflected in the change of wing color and markings. This kind of insect is very popular with people because of its bright colors and different stripes. Among them, the most representative butterfly, known as the "dancer" of nature, the "flower" of flying and the "beauty" of insect country, not only has high ornamental and collection value, but also is an important object of praise or ode in various works of art and a material for making arts and crafts. Among ornamental insects, butterflies and butterfly crafts are the most active and common categories of commodity trading, and the annual turnover of global butterfly trade is about $6,543.8 billion.

There is no absolute boundary between the above categories, and some ornamental insects have multiple ornamental values.