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Strictly speaking, they are not even ants, they are another unique creature, and their skin color is not all white, there are white, light yellow, brown and tan.

The biggest differences between termites and ants are:

Head: The termite has a very large head, like a doll's head, which is a large potato-like oval shape that weighs half of its entire body weight.

It's a pity that there are far more muscles in the brain than brain cells, otherwise this big-headed doll would be the smartest little animal in the rainforest.

Antennae: The antennae of termites are rosary-shaped, like a thin thread full of pearls, this unique antennae shape makes the touch of termites better than the antennae of ants, the antennae of ants are knee-shaped, like knees are often in a bent state.

Eyes: Generally, ants have two compound eyes and three single eyes, while termites have almost completely degenerated compound eyes and single eyes, which means that termite girls are actually blind. Daily life depends on their sensitive antennae to guide the way.

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Termite grassland.

From a microscopic point of view, it is the wind and the sun are endless, and there is a sense of sight of the sky and the vast sky, the wind blowing the grass and the cattle and sheep.

This grassland is the settlement of termite tribes in the Amazon jungle, and in the eyes of humans, it is just an ordinary piece of grass within a radius of 100 meters.

However, compared to termites that are less than 2 centimeters tall, this is already a boundless prairie.

At the moment, under the golden sunset.

A huge castle stands majestically in the steppe. It is 3 meters high and nearly 2 meters wide, and even Yao Giant is beyond the reach of the dust.

If you zoom in to the human eye, the castle is more than 300 meters high, and it is hard to imagine that such a small termite can build such a majestic spectacle without any modern construction tools.

He is truly a master builder of nature.

The castle is made entirely of mud and was built by hard-working termites and workers with saliva and feces mixed with wood fibres and mud, and is a great architectural marvel in nature. Threw the ants' humble mound buildings off several streets.

The exterior of the castle resembles a European medieval Gothic building, with several pointed roofs surrounding the highest pointed roof in the center.

Outside the castle, there are long and narrow windows, large and small, mainly used for ventilation inside the building, and inside the building, they have a more advanced air conditioning design scheme than the ants, through a clever U-shaped internal structure, so that the natural and fresh air can extend to every corner of the castle, even at the lowest level, can breathe smoothly.

The lowest floor is also the most important dwelling of the castle.

Because usually the queen of the termite tribe lives here quietly, hiding from predators.

Like the ant tribe, the queen's only mission is to give birth to children, day after day, day after day, like a super production tool.

From morning to night, 10,000 to 30,000 children are born every day, and there are 500 million children a year, and the annual population of a termite tribe is enough to completely destroy 90% of the countries in the human world.

Not to mention human beings, even compared with ants, although they are all super producers, the crazy energy of the ant queen to give birth to children is far inferior to the termite queen.

The termite queen is not only superior to the ant queen in terms of production quantity, but also more than 3 times the body of the average ant queen in terms of body size.

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At this moment, in a secret room on the dark basement floor, the White Cloud Queen of the termite tribe had stopped giving birth and was lying quietly on the ground under the massage of the maids.

Her white and fat body was almost 50 times that of the maids around her, like a huge white sponge.

"Mother, have you given birth to too many soldier ants during this time!" the maid asked the maid Termite Fang, wrinkling her antennae.

In the past, the Queen Mother laid 7,000 ant ants and 3,000 soldier ants in a day, and the soldier ants accounted for up to one-third, but now it is the opposite, 7,000 soldier ants, and the worker ants have completely lost one.

In the termite tribe.

Their only food is wood, processed wood to be exact, and the main process is as follows:

First of all, a field collection team of worker ants was dispatched to collect a large number of wood chips and sawdust in the shrub area of the termite grassland and transport them back to the termite castle in time.

Second, they get the mother fungus from the queen, and then plant the fungus (mushroom) on the collected wood like a leafcutter ant planting a mushroom on the leaves, and let the fungus enzymatically decompose the wood.

Finally, unlike leafcutter ants, they do not eat mushrooms, but wood chips that have been decomposed by mushrooms.

All of the above work is done by the tribe's worker ants, who do not produce at all, and their main daily work is patrol and guard.

And the teeth of the soldier ants are mainly used for fighting, like most ants and soldiers, they cannot chew food directly, and must be fed by special worker ants every day.

Recently, the Queen Mother has been giving birth to soldier ants, which has made the maid Termite Fang deeply worried, and if this continues, the growth of soldier ants will be far greater than the supply of food, which will bring a great burden to the daily life of the tribe.

She wondered why her mother, who had always been shrewd, should know what was going on? Be sure to ask.

The queen didn't answer her question immediately, she just sighed lazily, and originally wanted to be lazy, but she could only smile bitterly secretly,

Since the wedding flight, giving birth to the first child, she has no waist, because the whole body is waist, and it is estimated that she will not be able to give birth to a lazy waist in this life, she is now extremely difficult to turn over, and she can only lie quietly in a dark basement every day, busy giving birth.

She had forgotten what sunshine was like.

If you were a human woman, you would have gone crazy a long time ago!

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Although the termite queen is also the same as the ant queen, she can't get rid of the fate of the reproductive machine for a lifetime, but she is much happier than the ant queen, after their marriage flight, her husband did not die mysteriously immediately like the ant queen's husband, but can still get along with her day and night, and live for a long time.

This is enough to make all the ant queens go crazy with envy, whether it is a human or an animal, who doesn't want to grow old with their sweetheart?

Queen Baiyun snorted, flicked her tentacles, motioned for the maids to all retreat, and then gently pinched her husband's face who was helping her beat her back, and smiled slightly:

"My husband has worked hard, you should also go down and rest!"

The termite husband deliberately pretended to be indignant and asked:

"What's the matter? I can't even know?"

The queen smiled even more delicately:

"There are some things, the fewer people know the better, honey, you know ......"

The queen's husband shrugged his shoulders and left helplessly, remembering that before the wedding flight, he was almost the same size as her, and now he was only one-thirtieth of her size in front of his wife. It's just a small thing.

Why is the world like this?

It's crazy!(To be continued.) )