Agulugufe mosakayikira ndi ena mwa zolengedwa zokongola kwambiri m'chilengedwe. M'mayiko ambiri, agulugufe amawerengedwa kuti ndi chizindikiro chaubwenzi.
Mwachilengedwe, agulugufe ndi amodzi mwa mitundu yofala kwambiri ya tizilombo. Amapezeka pafupifupi kulikonse, kupatula ku Antarctica yovuta. Mitundu iwiri ya agulugufe imapezeka ngakhale ku Greenland. Zolengedwa izi ndizodziwika kwa aliyense, koma nthawi zonse zimakhala zothandiza kuphunzira china chatsopano, ngakhale pankhani yodziwika bwino.
1. lepidopterist si dokotala wazinthu zina zachilendo, koma wasayansi yemwe amaphunzira agulugufe. Gawo lolingana la entomology limatchedwa lepidopterology. Dzinalo limachokera ku mawu achi Greek akale "masikelo" ndi "mapiko" - kutengera mtundu wachilengedwe, agulugufe ndi lepidoptera.
2. Agulugufe ndi amodzi mwa nthumwi zosiyanasiyana. Pafupifupi mitundu 160,000 yafotokozedwa kale, ndipo asayansi akukhulupirira kuti masauzande ambirimbiri azamoyo sanawonebe.
3. Ku England kumapeto kwa zaka zapitazi adapeza gulugufe, yemwe zaka zake zikuyerekeza zaka 185 miliyoni.
4. Makulidwe agulugufe m'mapiko amasiyana mosiyanasiyana - kuyambira 3.2 mm mpaka 28 cm.
5. Agulugufe ambiri amadyetsa timadzi tokoma. Pali mitundu yomwe imadya mungu, timadziti, kuphatikiza zipatso zowola, ndi zinthu zina zowola. Pali mitundu ingapo yomwe siyidyetsa konse - kwa kanthawi kochepa, agulugufewa amakhala ndi zakudya zokwanira zomwe amakhala nazo nthawi yawo ngati mbozi. Ku Asia, kuli agulugufe omwe amadya magazi a nyama.
6. Kuuluka mungu kwa maluwa ndi phindu lalikulu lomwe agulugufe amabweretsa. Koma pali tizirombo pakati pawo, ndipo, monga lamulo, awa ndi mitundu yokhala ndi mtundu wowala kwambiri.
7. Ngakhale mawonekedwe diso ovuta kwambiri (mpaka zigawo 27,000), agulugufe ndi myopic, samasiyanitsa mitundu ndi zinthu zosayenda.
8. Mapiko enieni a agulugufe amaonekera. Masikelo omwe adalumikizidwa nawo ajambulidwa kuti athandizire kuwuluka kwa Lepidoptera.
9. Agulugufe alibe ziwalo zomvera, komabe, amatha kugwira kuthamanga kwakumaso ndi mpweya mothandizidwa ndi tinyanga tomwe tili pamutu. Agulugufe amamva kununkhiza ndi tinyanga.
10. Ndondomeko ya agulugufe oyamwitsa amaphatikizapo magule oyenda ndi mitundu ina ya chibwenzi. Akazi amakopa amuna ndi ma pheromones. Amuna amamva kununkhira kwa Imperial Moth wachikazi kuchokera pamtunda wamakilomita angapo. Kulumikizana pakokha kumatha kutenga maola angapo.
11. Agulugufe amaikira mazira ambiri, koma ndi ochepa okha amene amapulumuka. Ngati aliyense akanapulumuka, sipakanakhala malo pa Dziko lapansi kwa zolengedwa zina. Mbewu za mtengo umodzi wa kabichi zikadapitirira katatu kulemera kwa anthu onse.
12. Pakati pang'ono, zipolopolo za agulugufe zimadutsa katatu pachaka. M'madera otentha, mibadwo khumi imawonekera pachaka.
13. Agulugufe alibe mafupa mwanjira yathu yonse. Udindo wothandizidwa umachitidwa ndi chipolopolo chakunja cholimba cha thupi. Panthaŵi imodzimodziyo, thambo limeneli limalepheretsa gulugufeyo kutaya chinyezi.
14. Pafupifupi mitundu 250 ya agulugufe amasamuka. Njira yawo yosamukira imatha kutalika makilomita masauzande. Pa nthawi yomweyi, mwa mitundu ina, anawo adasamukira m'malo osamukira pawokha amapita kumalo okhalamo, komwe makolo awo adathawa. Njira yofalitsira "chidziwitso cha pamsewu" kwa asayansi sichidziwikabe.
15. Zimadziwika kuti agulugufe amatsanzira pofuna kuthawa adani. Kuti achite izi, amagwiritsa ntchito utoto ("maso" odziwika pamapiko) kapena kununkhiza. Sizidziwikiratu kuti agulugufe ena amakhala ndi ubweya wabwino m'thupi lawo ndi mapiko awo, opangidwa kuti atenge ndi kufalitsa mileme ya ultrasound yotulutsa nyama. Agulugufe amtundu wa Bear amatha kupanga ma kudina omwe amagwetsa chizindikiro cha mbewa "radar".
Ku Japan, agulugufe angapo amapepala amafunikira paukwati. Ku China, kachilombo kameneka kamakhala ngati chizindikiro cha chikondi ndi chisangalalo cha banja, ndipo chimadyedwa ndi chisangalalo.
17. Kalelo m'zaka za m'ma 1800, agulugufe anayamba kutchuka. Tsopano pali agulugufe opitilira 10 miliyoni mgulu lalikulu kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi la agulugufe ku Thomas Witt Museum ku Munich. Msonkhano waukulu kwambiri ku Russia ndi gulu la Zoological Institute. Agulugufe oyamba mumsonkhanowu adawonekera muulamuliro wa Peter Wamkulu (ndiye anali Kunstkamera), ndipo lero muli makope 6 miliyoni.
18. Osonkhanitsa odziwika bwino anali Baron Walter Rothschild, katswiri wazolimbitsa thupi waku Russia Ivan Pavlov, olemba Mikhail Bulgakov ndi Vladimir Nabokov.
19. Ngati pali osonkhanitsa, payenera kukhala msika wa agulugufe, koma zambiri zogulitsa ndizochepa. Zimanenedwa kuti mu 2006 agulugufe adagulitsidwa kumodzi mwamalonda ku America $ 28,000.
20. Pa tsiku limodzi lokumbukira zomwe adachita, mtsogoleri waku Korea yemwe adamwalira Kim Il Sung adalandira chithunzi chopangidwa ndi agulugufe mamiliyoni angapo. Ngakhale anali okonda kuphedwa, chinsalu chidapangidwa ndi asitikali ndipo amatchedwa "Chikhulupiriro Chodzipereka Chankhondo".