Episode 243 A Day in the Life of Termites

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The Amazon rainforest, from a human point of view, is a vast primeval forest, and from the microscopic point of view of insects, there are not only forests, but also valleys, swamps, Gobi, and grasslands.

Termite prairie every morning.

Tens of thousands of worker ant logging teams from the termite tribe would stream out of the termite castle to collect roots and wood chips in the grass and bushes near the castle.

After the logging, the wood is transported back to the castle by a special transport ant and handed over to a full-time planter, who first asks for the fungus from the termite queen.

Bacteria are then planted on the wood, and when the fungus grows, the wood oxidizes by the fungus to form a delicious wood mud. And this wood mud is their only food.

The sun rises and the sun sets.

When human beings have already entered the Internet age, this primitive agricultural civilization is still continued in termites, and they have been together for hundreds of millions of years.

Never invade others, keep to yourself, cut wood and eat wood diligently every day, have no quarrel with the world, simple and happy, this is the life of termites in a day.

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On this day, a team of bugs led by termite bugs was collecting bark 6,000 steps away from the nest.

Recently, there are fewer and fewer natural wood chips on the termite grassland, and they have to collect fresh bark from a shrub this time, which undoubtedly greatly increases their time and physical costs.

However, life is like this, there are good and bad.

Only the toughest bugs survive to the end.

Although termites have a much softer exoskeleton than ordinary ants, they are more powerful on the inside.

And the secret of their strength is their love.

The termite sisters have been extremely degraded because of their compound eyes, so this world is eternal darkness for them, but the love for the Queen Mother and the love for the tribal sisters makes their hearts shine.

This flower of love.

Even at the end of his life, he still blooms tenaciously.

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Cutting the bark is a very hard job, and it is a great challenge for termites to have physical strength and bite strength, although they have sharp axes - steel teeth with toothed saws, but they also need to be stoic.

Bug Squad.

Including the captain termite bug, a total of 20 members, with the concerted efforts of 21 termite loggers, a section of bark 12 cm long and 3 cm wide was finally bitten off, and each team member showed a happy smile on their faces, because the speed was good today, it only took 30 minutes, 15 minutes faster than usual.

If this pace can be maintained, it means that they can finish their work ahead of schedule today.

Everyone carefully bit the bark tightly, and under the command of the captain termite bug, it was dragged under the tree little by little, and the termite bug asked a team member to notify the transport ants to carry it, and then all the logging team members rested in place for a while.

"Sister bug, is there something big going on in the tribe recently? ”

A team member named Termite Seven Leaves spoke.

As a blind person, the hearing organs on her antennae are unusually sensitive, and although she can't see the captain's person, she can accurately smell the captain's scent. She slowly moved over to the captain.

"yes, yes, I don't think something is right too. ”

Many female loggers nodded their rosary-shaped tentacles and echoed that smell is king in the termite tribe, and their termite joys, sorrows and sorrows will be directly reflected on their body odor, and there is a nervous smell that spreads imperceptibly in the tribe during this time.

Especially their father, the husband of the current termite queen, has a strong smell of panic on his body, and he can smoke away an elephant a few miles away.

"yes, yes, it's a fart!"

The termite bug trained that although he was only a team leader of 20 people, he had a bit of the demeanor of a domineering female president, "Tell you, don't talk nonsense about the gossip." ”

"It's not grapevine, I heard with my own tentacles, it seems that some bad guy is going to come in?"

A termite is timid.

"Who did you listen to?" the termite bug wrinkled its antennae.

"It was the Queen's maid, Sister Changfang, who was squatting alone in the toilet while I was cleaning up the feces at the bottom of the pit, and she probably thought there was no one, so she said it to herself," the termite explained carefully.

"Haha, the must have pulled you on the head!"

Several termite sisters burst into laughter.

The captain termite bug fell into deep thought, in fact, the tribe has been significantly different from the past for a period of time, the tribe senior management always looks worried, and the training intensity of the soldier ants is getting bigger and bigger, what is even more surprising is that the maids quietly revealed that the queen has produced more and more baby soldiers recently.

Is there really going to be a war?

The termite bug shook its head violently, and then gritted its teeth, as if to bite this ominous thought and swallow it into its stomach.

While he was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard the team member lying on a leaf on the tree exclaiming:

"Someone's coming!

"What person, is it a carnivorous ant?" termite bugs stood up, although the termite grassland is dominated by wood-eating termites and mushroom-eating grass-cutting ants, but there are also a small number of carnivorous ant tribes, often come to the vicinity of the termite castle to poach termites that go out to log.

"Wait a minute, the smell was too faint just now, I'll smell it again. The sentinel on the tree suddenly roared:

"It's a carnivore! There are a lot of them! Run!"

After saying this, she rolled down directly from the tree! The termite bug took an arrow step, stretched out her hand to catch it, and shouted:

Don't panic, Qiye, you lead everyone to line up and return along the same road!

"Captain, what about you?" Qiye asked.

"I went to chase Xiaohong alone, so that she didn't know and brought the convoy with me. ”

"Okay, Captain, be careful!"

The 19 female termite team members immediately evacuated the scene quickly under the leadership of the termite Qiye, because there was a "smell corridor" left all the way, so, although they were just a group of blind people, the speed of escape was still extremely fast, and they disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The captain termite bug did not immediately evacuate on the spot, until the tentacles could not sense the latest smell of the team members, and then quickly smoothed the breath left on the soil by the team members, smoothed it with their feet, and then covered it with soil to prevent the carnivorous ants from catching up with the smell again.

As if that weren't enough, she squatted down on the spot and peed on the spot, which had a double signal, the inner signal was to warn her companions not to approach the place, and the outer layer was a pretended summoning signal to confuse the enemy and make them stay where they were, but it was actually a bamboo basket to draw water.

Ready, as soon as he wanted to get up, he was firmly pressed on the shoulder by a black claw:

"Where do you want to go?"

The voice was cold and hideous.

The termite bug's pupils shrank, and when she raised her eyes, she saw two tall black ants one in front of the other, sandwiching her in the middle, and another gust of wind and sand rolling, and a carnivorous ant hunting team of 50 people laughed and surrounded the termite bugs.

Her heart sank to freezing point.

I know I can't go anywhere. (To be continued.) )