Chapter 161: Bold Guesses
When he looked over, it looked like a birch forest in front of him.
Chen Fan pointed to the white white leaves and birch trunks and said: "Everyone, you see, ahead, we are about to enter a birch forest again, what does this mean? This means that our visibility will be higher, and what we see is not as dark as when we walked in the maple forest before." ”
"Also, in autumn and winter, when you go into the birch forest, you can harvest all kinds of mushrooms, even some small wild fruits, and other miscellaneous trees.
Moreover, birch forests generally like to grow in places with loose soil and more water, which means that near the front, we can encounter water sources again.
And you see, the birch forests grow in small patches, and the places that are vacated in the middle are where other shrubs and weeds grow.
If I'm not mistaken, this season, in the old forests of Daxing} Anling, we can still harvest a kind of food that we have seen.
Hehe, keep it for now, and I'll show it to you when it's time. ”
Chen Fan deliberately sold a pass, took the small river loop, and continued to set off towards the front.
At this time, a group of sailors in the live broadcast room disagreed.
"I'm an academic emperor: class is out in the afternoon, Brother Fan, didn't you just say bullet ants? I look at your hands, whether there are any stings and red and swollen. ”
"Barbara Flood: Yes, I have also watched the documentary, and I heard that it is the deadliest demon insect, to see if the place where the anchor was bitten has deteriorated. ”
"Fishing Master: Ah, we in China, do we really have bullet ants? Isn't that something that only exists in the southern hemisphere tens of thousands of kilometers away?"
"Crazy Rush: Quick, the anchor quickly explain to us. ”
Chen Fan looked at these enthusiastic old irons who broke the casserole and asked to the end, and had no choice but to show his empty right hand and said:
"You see, there is a little red dot, but the area is only three or four centimeters, and by tomorrow, it should be fine.
As for the small river loop, you don't have to worry, its skin is thick and soft, and bullet ants can't hurt it at all.
This kind of bullet ant, I have seen, and there is still some difference between the bullet ant in South America, only two-thirds of their size, and the toxin, it is estimated that it is the same, not so powerful. ”
In addition, the bullet ants, which were rated as one of the "top ten most poisonous animals in the world", love challenges and are full of combat effectiveness, and they can also be called the flat-headed brother of the ant world, especially its physical strength, which can actually treat insects and small frogs that are several times larger than their size as the object of pounce.
However, what is surprising is that the bullet ants, which terrify many large animals, have seemingly insignificant nemesis.
That is: the much smaller humpback fly, a parasite of bees.
Humpback ants look like small ants, with adults only three or four millimeters long. Why do bullet ants become the underdogs of the humpback fly? That's because the toxins of the bullet ants are useless against the humpback fly;
Humpback flies are small, and even if the bullet ants attack with large pincers, they cannot pose any threat to them, which is the advantage of the small size of the humpback fly.
What's more lethal is that they can easily climb onto the bullet ants to lay eggs, and those maggots, which are nearly 100 times smaller than bullet ants, become the terminators of the bullet ants' lives.
And the reason why we call them bullet ants is also because the place where the real bullet ant bites is as painful as being hit by a bullet.
I read a paragraph about bullet ants in a well-known travel magazine, Blue Planet.
In order to know what it feels like to be stung by different insects, Justin Schmidt, a well-known entomologist in the United States, has personally experienced the silkworm bites of more than 150 kinds of insects, including bullet ants. In his "Schmidt Pain Index" list, the pain index after being bitten by bullet ants ranked first.
Here's how Justin describes what it feels like to be bitten by a bullet ant:
It felt like a rusty nail stuck in your heel and then walking barefoot on charcoal that had been burned red. ’
This description is very accurate, under normal circumstances, after being bitten by one or two bullet ants, it will not hurt your life, but the pain will spread quickly, and sometimes the hand will be bitten and the shoulder will start to hurt, and even the whole arm will not be able to move for a few hours, if you are bitten by a group of bullet ants, it will be very dangerous.
So, when I encounter this today, it is a subspecies at best, and it is not as threatening as the place of origin. ”
Similarly, Chen Fan even had a bold idea, could it be that those bullet ants in South America would originate in the east, in the northern grasslands and forests of China.
Tens of thousands of years ago, even hundreds of thousands of years ago, along with primitive humans, reindeer, moose, and Eskimos, all these crossed the Bering Strait to the Americas, and then all the way south, and finally reached the largest tropical rainforest in the world.
It then evolved to become one of the most terrifying and painful insects in the world today.
Chen Fan said some precautions for bullet ants again, and wiped out the other deer leg while walking.
And Xiaohetao, because he ate mushrooms before, he found some wild fruits to gnaw on the road, but he didn't ask Chen Fan for food again.
But this guy has also learned to be lazy.
After eating and drinking enough and getting tired of running, he jumped on Chen Fan's shoulders with a smoke, and then unzipped Chen Fan's backpack by himself, and went in to sleep.
Chen Fan sighed, looked at the clouds in the sky, and estimated that it was already more than four o'clock, almost five o'clock.
The weather in Tohoku, plus autumn, is at a high latitude, and it seems that it is about to get dark.
Chen Fan looked around and decided to stay here for the rest of the night.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I plan to rest here next, and delay for half a day tomorrow to see if I can replenish the food at the water source, and then I will go all the way to the end and appear on the Hulun grassland. ”
As soon as he thought of the wind blowing grass in front of him and seeing the cattle and sheep waiting for him, Chen Fan evoked an evil smile.
This wilderness survival is mainly about survival, so although Chen Fan has some risks, he is not in a hurry.
Moreover, isn't this relaxed way of surviving, while fighting wits and courage with wild animals, the essence of this show?
In Yanjing, in a start-up café in Yizhuang, the wind in the capital is clear and dusty, and the wind and dust rush to make an appointment with a dead friend.
"Lao Wang, you dog, this trip to the United States on a business trip, and you won glory for the country again? Tell me, how many oceanic horses did you conquer in one night?"
"Vulgar!"
Wang Xiaocong frowned, "Do you think Lao Tzu is you, you will soak when you see a girl, buddy is still very pursuing, this time I know two Chinese young ladies, I decided to sign them to our panda, when the time comes, you kid remember to go and cheer me on." ”
"Isn't it just a show? ”
The wind is clear, and the big guy doesn't care.