Honeybee 2-4: Characteristics of bees

Sijun asked Silas to hurry to find rescue, and the closest rescue to here was none other than the Golden Rooster Youtian King who was guarding the border line of the Vermilion Bird Country in the south.

Silas knew that if he rushed back to Panquan Town, it would take at least 5 days, although he had the "teleportation" ability of Captain Mo Yin, he still needed to clarify the situation, convene a meeting to select people, and simulate tactics. It will also take six to seven days for the first fighters to arrive. By then, Sijun will really be cold.

The closest powerful reinforcement to here can only be the Youtian King, which only takes one day to travel, and it takes up to 2 days to come and go. As long as he can survive 48 hours, he will be rescued.

But she didn't want to go at all, it was too dangerous after all. But she also knew that the direction in which this group of terrifying bees flew was within the territory of the Qinglong Kingdom, so she must find out about it. This bee has such a strong strength, if it is a swarm, human civilization will definitely be destroyed. Ben left it by himself, and he went to inform him, but he definitely wouldn't agree.

And what Sijun said was right, what he said to Youtianwang as a small soldier of the Guardian Army, and what Silas, the army commander, said was naturally more convincing for Silas. In order to get the support of the Youtian King, maybe the Youtian King has other arrangements.

So after the two of them argued fiercely in a whisper, Silas set out for the south to seek the help of the Youtian King. And Mijun continues to go deep into the hinterland to find out the secrets of these bees. And make marks along the way. Actually, Sijun wanted to check the questions that came to mind before.

Sijun always felt that the secret behind this was related to his mother, Sijun, and now this group of bees is from his mother's world. And the bee that fought just now detected that it had a mother's breath on it, and it retreated, which is really a bit strange. Therefore, if you want to solve the doubts in your heart, you must find out about your mother, and if you want to know about your mother, you may be able to find some answers from this group of bees.

So, when Silas was far away, Sijun also quietly walked in the direction where the swarm of bees flew.

Sijun has lived in the mountains and forests for so many years, and he still has a certain understanding of bees.

Bees belong to the order Hymenoptera, the family Bees. Bees are social insects that are composed of queen bees, drones, worker bees, and other individuals. There are many species of bees, and there are wild bees and artificial bees. Due to the greater dependence of several countries on honey, it has high medicinal value, so the number of artificial bees in the world is much larger than that of wild bees.

He saw that those creatures were similar in appearance to the bees of this world, and even if they were not bees of this world, they belonged to bee mutants or species similar to bees. So he used bees as a reference to analyze and judge this group of creatures. Only by identifying these creatures can we attack them and get information about the mother.

There are many species of bees, generally speaking, they have a small body, black cephalothorax, and the queen bee is about 17.5mm long, with a black or brownish-red body color, and the whole body is covered with black and dark yellow hairs. The body length of the worker bee is about 11 mm, the beak is about 5 mm long, the dorsal plate of the ventral segment is black, with a brownish-yellow ring, the abdomen of the middle bee in high latitudes and high mountainous areas is black, and the abdomen of the center in the low latitude and plain area is yellow, and the whole body is covered with gray short villi. The drone is about 12.5 mm long, black or black-brown in color, and covered with gray hairs. The bee has strong cold resistance, agile flight, and is easy to fly away when the nectar source is lacking or the disease and pest is infestation, and it is suitable for raising in the ecological environment of mountainous and semi-mountainous areas. Strong resistance to bee mites, strong piracy, strong bee separation, weak resistance to nest insects, often bite the old nest spleen, weak ability to resist cystic larvae, and easy to be infected with cystic larval disease.

If you calculate according to this ratio, the big bee that did it with himself just now is obviously a worker bee responsible for collecting food. The average human is 160cm~180cm, and the big bee just started is one-third taller than a normal person, about 2.2 meters.

Generally, worker bees are only about half the size of a queen bee, according to the ratio of 17.5mm for queen bees, 12.5mm for male peaks, and 11mm for worker bees. The worker bee is 2.2 meters tall, the male peak is about 2.5 meters tall, and the queen bee is about 3.5 meters tall. How huge are these creatures?

Moreover, according to the division of labor of bees, the top of the bee system is the queen bee, and the social division of the queen bee is to lay eggs full-time, shouldering the social responsibility of reproduction. Its body is developed robustly, it has a large belly, weighs twice as much as a worker bee, and loses the slimness of its "female" stature. During the egg-laying period, the queen bee has to have the worker bees feed royal jelly every day to promote rapid metabolism and maintain vigorous egg-laying ability. According to expert statistics, the queen bee of some species can lay 700 to 800 eggs a day, but the maximum is 1 times higher, up to 1500 to 2000 eggs, and in terms of weight, the average egg laid per day is almost twice its own weight.

The male peak, on the other hand, only mates with the queen bee. Drones are male "citizens" within a colony that develops from unfertilized eggs, living a daily life without work, and the sole purpose of its existence is to mate with the queen. However, when drones play this role, they must give their precious lives. From this point of view, drones have to fulfill the responsibility of social division of labor at the cost of their lives. This starts with the whole process of fulfilling the responsibility, every mating season, the sexually mature drones will automatically gather in a certain place and fly in the air, in order to attract the virgin queen. Once the virgin queen appears, all the drones chase after each other, and after some competition, there is only one that finally gets the right to mate, who is the largest and the most robust, who is the final winner, and the queen bee mates, the whole process is in the air. Once the mating is over, the drone dies immediately because all the reproductive organs are pulled down.

Worker bees have the most social division of labor and the heaviest tasks. It can be said that apart from the respective tasks of the queen bee and the drone, all other work within the colony is carried out by the worker bees. Worker bees are female organ underdeveloped, but many of its structures are specialized to the needs of work, such as the sacs in its foregut that are specialized into honey sacs to store nectar. To make 1 kilogram of honey, worker bees need to collect 10 kilograms of nectar. The total round trip is 320,000 kilometers, which is about the equivalent of circumnavigating the globe eight times. Worker bees work as soon as they are born, and the division of labor changes according to the increasing age. Under normal circumstances, when the worker bee is 1~3 days old, it is responsible for incubating the eggs and cleaning the spawning room; at the age of 3~6 days, it is changed to feed the large larvae, adjusting pollen and honey; at the age of 6~12 days, it is changed to secrete royal jelly and feed the small larvae and queen bees; at the age of 12~18 days, it is replaced by wax to create a spleen and clean the beehive; after the age of 18 days, its task is to collect nectar, water, pollen, propolis and nest door defense.

There are three types of communication in bees: chemical, behavioral, and physical.

Chemically, a trace amount of chemical information released by bee glands is called pheromone, also known as exohormones. Transmission by air or contact between individuals is a kind of "language" that is transmitted between individuals of the same species, and the receiving individual can understand the meaning of this "language" and act on behavioral or physiological responses.

The mode of behavior is mainly dance, the most typical being round dance and tail dance. The dancer is the scout bee of the gathering bees, and the stage is the nest spleen in the nest that is perpendicular to the ground. The dance of the scout bee is selected according to the direction and distance of the nectar source detected. If the scout bee finds the nectar source within 100 meters of the hive, it dances like this: when the scout bee returns to the hive with the nectar collected there, it first stays quietly on the hive for a while, then slowly spits out the nectar and holds it to its mouth, where its companions suck it out with their beaks. Then the scout bee dances in a round dance, sometimes turning in a circle to the left, sometimes to the right, but the trajectory is always round. The quality of the nectar source is expressed through the passion of dancing, that is, the more nectar the sweeter, the more energetic the dance.

The physical way is to use sound and light to transmit information. The so-called sound is the sound of a bee flapping its wings. For example, the sound of the queen bee's wings vibrating is called "singing", and "singing" is transmitted through the nest spleen, because the queen bee's vibrating wings are driven by the vibration of the pectoral muscles. Another example, the scout bee flying out of the "whirring" sound, has the effect of "dispatching troops", once a new queen bee is produced, it will inevitably divide the bees, then the scout bee bee makes this sound, will guide the swarm to fly to the new nest.

But the strange thing is that the bee that fought just now can actually speak human language, but it speaks very stiffly, as if it has just begun to learn to speak. Therefore, he believes that in order to defeat these creatures, it is necessary to find their weaknesses, and since the weaknesses of these creatures are so similar to bees, the answer can only be found in the different habits of them and bees. Seeking the weaknesses of these creatures in a combat style would have cost a lot of money.

Therefore, all that Sijun can do now is to prepare for the follow-up battle first and scout these creatures in advance. In order to find the most reasonable way to fight.

But it didn't take long for him to go out with him, and he noticed something strange. Isn't this the town of Jimmy in front of you? The people of Jimmy Li? Something can't be wrong, right?

When Sijun approached the town, he found something very different. There was no one left in the town, and it was empty. Could it be that the disaster of 20 years ago is going to happen again? 20 years ago, I fought against Lord Qinglong, who had the soul of the Yellow Dragon attached. Afterwards, it calmed down, but because of the attenuation of Lord Huanglong, the secret land of the Yellow Dragon, many unknown creatures came out of the Divine Beast World. The world was devastated, and humanity was almost wiped out.

Unexpectedly, the town of Jimmy is one of the victimized towns. However, the bees overhead in front of them did not stop, grabbing the humans and continuing to fly forward. Sijun didn't linger, and it seemed that Jimmy had no way to live, so he continued to chase him. Looking at the direction, it seems that there is a mountain not far ahead, a nameless hill.

According to the direction, and what was pointed out in the previous description of the Yellow Dragon Secret Land Chen Heavenly King, this mountain should be the place where the father and mother met back then.

But what was in his mind was something else. Judging by the strange behavior of these bees and the situation in the town of Jimmy Rise, these creatures have been stationed here for some time. And when the town was being reorganized, why did everyone persuade themselves to come to Jimmy Town?

Why did they know they were leaving the town, and why did they all recommend that they should come here first at the first stop? Did they know in the first place? They knew that there was already an unknown creature here? Did they deliberately let themselves come?

Among them, King Chen Tianwang also came to say hello and let him come to Jimmy Town first. What's wrong with this? Why does even King Chen say that? Nasila ...... Is it to spy on yourself by your side?

The only thing that is certain now is that it has to do with the creatures on this hill. Now that you know, don't be in a hurry, withdraw to Jimmy Town first, and discuss it when support arrives. More importantly, see what exactly this group of people are playing and whether Silas is theirs or not.

So, after dodging a few rounds of flying in the air by large bees, Sijun quietly retreated. Cautiously retreat to the town of Jimiri.

Sure enough, the town was empty, and it seemed that something big had happened. The town of Jimmy was the closest populated place to the hill, and the bees were the first to suffer from it. It seems that this matter is indeed not something that can be handled by oneself.

Something seems wrong with this town, though.