In the tribe of leafcutter ants. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is a group of humble workers, who work day and night in the dark and polluted basement, and they will never step out of the ant nest for the rest of their lives, except for the last century group photo.

Although he is unknown, he has always had no regrets.

This group of stoic ant sisters are the gardener ants who are responsible for growing mushrooms.

They are the smallest ants in the leaf-cutting ant tribe, with a height of only 0.5cm.

This super dwarf elf is one-twelfth of the queen's height, less than one-third of the other worker ant sisters, and even the little guy is twice as tall as them.

This is a special group that will welcome a special group of guests today.

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Considering that he is about to leave the Ant Valley, and there are still many places in the ant nest that he has not been to, if he does not go, he will have no chance at all when he swells again in the future.

Therefore, in line with the human abacus of not missing when walking by, the 5 friends unanimously decided. Starting from the morning today, let's take an ant-nest day trip.

Today, they want to take a good look at the places they haven't been to before, and secretly resolve that they must not leave Ant Valley with a trace of regret.

The tour guide has already decided, ant jasmine is also.

The first stop of today's tour is the famous mushroom garden, which has never been to the four of them except for one visit to the rice ball, and their eager eyes are as green as wolves in the dark tunnel.

In the basement, there were no 5 fingers, and everyone happily played a small flashlight, followed behind the waist of the ant jasmine, and sang in the underground tunnel like a labyrinth:

The mountain road here has eighteen bends.

Finally, after turning a corner. They shined a flashlight on it, and their vision suddenly opened up.

Before the group could stand firmly, they heard a flock of sparrows chirping inside:

"The worms are coming, the worms are coming!, get your pose, they're here to take pictures of us again!

Yu Qiyun and the others immediately laughed dumbly when they heard this.

Everyone expanded the aperture of the flashlight, and instantly gasped in unison, Nima, it's too big inside!

It is the size of five football fields.

However, on the flat ground, there was only half a football, and the group of them was horrified to see a huge half-shaped ball martial arts body towering domineeringly in front of them.

The surface of the sphere is concave and convex, much like a pineapple.

And on this huge "pineapple", lush and covered with small white and yellow mushrooms. Let the saliva of the two foodies of rice balls and soap soap have been surging.

Yu Qiyun turned their hands to take a closer look.

It is clearly found that on the path between the mushrooms, there are busy gardener ants in and out. At this moment, they all stopped what they were talking about, and looked at the five uninvited guests with a surprised gaze.

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Before, except for a crazy little fat man who had come here, it was the first time for them to see a group of people and insects come to visit the mushroom garden, and they were really excited!

For a while, the mushroom garden was silent, and humans and ants were silently looking at each other, never getting tired of looking at each other.

"What are you doing in a daze? Keep working. ”

A voice echoed in the hall, and a gardener ant climbed down from the large pineapple with small square steps. Seeing her, tens of thousands of gardener ants buzzed and continued to work hard.

This light brown gardener ant. Yu Qiyun and they knew each other, it was the Minister of the Planting Department, Ant Mushroom Flower, I saw the Minister of Mushroom Flower walk up to them and ask Ant Jasmine very politely:

"Did the Jasmine manager bring them to take pictures of us? ”

Ant Jasmine shook its tentacles and smiled:

"No, you think it's beautiful, they're just here to visit, Mushroom Flower, you just want to be a docent and give you a look at how this place works. ”

"No problem!"

Antmushroom smiled heartily.

Although there was a flash of disappointment in her heart, she resolutely extended a warm welcome.

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It seems that this mushroom minister is a person with a fresh mind and a smile, and he is very organized.

She first led everyone to a clearing, only to see that the green leaves were piled up like a hill on the flat ground, and a fresh medicinal fragrance could be smelled in the distance.

At first glance, this is the leaf that was just picked this morning.

At this moment, there is a large group of gardener ants, crawling up and down on the "leaf mountain", sniffing each leaf with its antennae, and biting it with its teeth. Everyone was confused.

"What are they doing?"

The little guy scratched his head and asked the first question.

"They are quality inspectors, and they are responsible for selecting the leaves, leaving the good ones and the bad ones in the garbage room. ”

Ant Mushroom Flower smiled and said like a treasure.

Soon, this green hill was picked and picked by hundreds of quality inspectors and divided into three piles: good, medium and bad.

Everyone stepped forward quickly, carefully checked with a flashlight, and immediately froze, no matter how you look at these three piles of leaves, they are exactly the same fresh and juicy young leaves, why are they so clearly divided?

Seeing the confused eyes of the humans, the ant mushroom sneered, and a gardener ant who was working came and asked her to show up to explain to the confused tourists.

According to the ant, although each cut leaf looks almost identical on the outside, the fleshy content inside is very different.

Some have more toxins, some have less.

Some have more nutrients, some have less nutrients.

So they sniff with their antennae, bite their teeth at a glance, and then decisively classify them.

Li Yourao frowned and asked:

"Since the leaves have toxins, aren't you afraid of poisoning when you bite them every day?"

The commentator's quality inspector smiled slightly:

"Thank you sister for your concern, our saliva can synthesize a certain amount of toxins, and the longer we bite, the stronger our immunity to toxins. ”

When everyone heard that this little ant, who was not as tall as Li Enchanting's thighs, actually called Li Enchanting her little sister, they couldn't help but laugh, and they were so angry that the braids of the big beauty flew up.

Then Ant Jasmine added:

"Yes, my gardener ant sisters are three times more resistant to poison than our ordinary worker ants and soldier ants. ”

This sentence shocked everyone, if you are bitten by this group of docile little ants, it will be a bunker!

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"That's our first process: picking leaves. The antmushroom flicked its tentacles and pointed with its hand, "Now you see, the second process begins: chewing the leaves." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a new group of gardener ants mysteriously appeared, and this group of gardener ants was significantly different from the previous batch, not only with thicker necks, but also with larger teeth.

Just as Yu Qiyun and the others guessed what these big-toothed girls were here for, they didn't say a word, and used all their strength to chew on the picked leaves, and kept making a piercing creaking sound.

It seems that this is the second process: chewing the leaves.

Yu Qiyun turned their heads and found that the original group of gardener ants had started the quality inspection work again on a new leaf mountain, sorting a batch of leaves and transporting ants and sending a batch of leaves, which continued over and over again, just like the workers on the assembly line of the express company, without stopping.

When they turned their faces, they were amazed to find that the leaf mud chewed by the gardener ants was steaming in front of them like a large lump of green poop.

Seeing this familiar shape and smelling this familiar smell, the stomach acid of 5 people is tumbling. (To be continued.) )