In the moment you read the following few lines.

- A total of 40 people and 700 million ants were born at the same time on the earth.

- A total of 30 people and 500 million ants died at the same time on the planet.

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Humans: Mammals.

Height: 1 to 2 meters.

Weight: from 30 to 100 kg.

Gestational period: 9 months.

Food type: omnivorous.

The current number is estimated: more than 5 billion (then more than 7 billion).

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Ants: Insectoids.

Height: 0.01 to 3 cm.

Body weight: 1 to 150 mg.

Spawning period: Eggs can be laid at any time according to the sperm stock.

Food type: omnivorous.

Estimated at the number of the present: more than 100 million trillions.

- Bernard Weber, "Empire of Ants"

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"Come here, too!"

Queen Honggen looked at the ant flower and said suddenly.

Knowing the daughter Mo Ruomu, this little girl's eager and forbearant look just now has long been seen by her mother.

Tonghua's body shook, shrunk her neck, bit her lip, and silently walked in front of the Queen Mother and stood up straight.

"Dead girl, why are you standing so far away, I'm afraid I'll eat you!!" said the queen, laughing.

The ant system flower blushed, and Ai Ai was just close to the queen, and was snatched by the queen in her arms!

She has an ant flower in her left hand and an ant flower in her right hand, and suddenly feels that her daughters are back again, and she is no longer the queen of a tribe with a population of hundreds at this moment, but an ordinary and ordinary mother.

Ant Tinghua giggled, Ant Tonghua's face was redder, and her head hung lower, but in her heart, a flower called "Family Love" had quietly bloomed......

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"Alright, you stuffy gourd and start reporting!"

The queen slowly combed the two tentacles of the ant flower, and said with a smile. Let Tinghua in his left hand look hot.

Ant Tonghua became more and more ashamed, gritted her teeth, and struggled to sit up from her mother's arms, but was firmly held down by Queen Honggen's hand, unable to move.

"Say it in my arms!" ordered the Queen.

Ant Tonghua looked shy, and only hummed for a long time.

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Ant Tinghua stopped laughing and immediately quieted down, and the queen's expression was full of peace and expectation, and she raised her tentacles to listen.

Before, when she saw Tinghua come to report in person, she knew that there must be an emergency, which made her instinctively feel worried.

But Tinghua, this girl, has always been in the mood to laugh with herself, and there is a secret hidden in her eyes that will surprise her, although Tonghua looks as usual, but her tentacles are faintly a little unbearable excitement.

Then it can be concluded that this breaking news, if not good news, must not be bad news.

At the thought of this, the queen's face soothed a lot.

Ant Tonghua stood up straight, cleared her throat, and spoke in a standard announcer accent:

Let's start with the number of external collections:

A total of 4662811 green leaves were picked in one day today

thereinto

Superior green leaf 3032853 blocks

Medium green leaves 1548012 blocks

81,946 pieces of low-grade green leaves

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There are a total of 2,255 petals

All are premium

A total of 96 fruits were collected

25 fresh fruits

71 rotten fruits

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In particular, the number of green leaves has been decreasing for seven consecutive days, and not only is it not as good as before in terms of quantity, but it is also worrying in terms of quality, and the proportion of medium and low leaf blocks is increasing.

Good leaves grow good mushrooms, poor leaves grow bad mushrooms, and mushrooms are the staple food of the leaf-cutting ant tribe. It is the top priority to make ends meet.

This made the tentacles of the Red Root Queen and the Ant Tinghua both frown, since the fire ants robbed them of a piece of precious woodland, in terms of the quantity and quality of leaf collection, it is really going on like this, how can it go on like this?

They sighed, looked at each other, speechless, raised their tentacles, and continued to listen to Tonghua's report:

Outside grazing number jù:

A total of 1,271 aphids are grazed today

Collect honeydew 183024 mouthful

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(The mouth is used as a unit of measurement here, because ants do not use containers, and the honey dew excreted by aphids is swallowed one by one, stored in the public stomach, and after returning to the nest, it is fed back to other sisters and children in the tribe one bite at a time)

This number jù is slightly better, but unfortunately honeydew is only a non-staple food and not a staple food.

Ant Tonghua sighed and continued to report:

Below are the numbers of internal mushroom production

6 a.m. to 6 p.m. today

The 7 major mushroom gardens produce a total of 216122 mushrooms

thereinto

204136 leaf mushrooms

11,986 mushrooms

Hearing this, the queen and the ant Tinghua tentacles wrinkled together, according to the minimum diet of 5 people, pinching their fingers, the daily shortage of mushrooms in the tribe is 35,878, dividing this number by 5, which means that there are 7,175 ant sisters starving every day.

Queen Redroot's heart trembled, and at the end of the day, there weren't enough leaves. In addition, many of the mushrooms grown from the leaves of the lower trees have diarrhea after eating them.

The mushrooms eaten by leafcutter ants are very special, they are not planted in the soil, but are grown with leaves.

(Micro science: not all tree leaves can be used to grow mushrooms eaten by leafcutter ants, because many trees in the rainforest in order to protect themselves, the leaves contain one or more toxins, if this toxin, leafcutter ants can not neutralize with their own toxins, then this leaf is a leafcutter ant absolutely do not need to touch the teeth, naturally can not grow mushrooms)

The queen was silent for a long time, her expression gloomy.

The ant flower slowly broke free of her mother's arms, got out of the queen's arms, and stood silently.

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After a long silence, a more brutal number jù report finally began—the number of personnel derogations.

Before he could speak, he saw Ant Tinghua's face pale, and she suddenly broke free from the queen's arms and rushed towards the door!

She didn't urgently go to the toilet, but she really couldn't stand the news of her sisters' casualties.

Behind every cold count, there was once a youthful and bright smiling face.

She is still young, and she has not yet cultivated to the point of being hard-hearted.

Ant Tonghua looked at Tinghua's distant back, stopped, took a deep breath, and looked back at the queen.

The child continued. ”

The queen cheered up. Faced with these cruel numbers every day, she didn't want to be numb, but she had to be numb. Otherwise, she will go crazy and will not be able to live a day.

The ant flower did not dare to look into the eyes of the Queen Mother.

Continue to pronounce the number jù in your head:

6 o'clock this morning.

Worker ants go out 552768 people

6 p.m

Worker ants come home 550191 people

2,577 people were killed and missing

Soldier ants go out 276996 people

Soldier ants come home 276272 people

720 people were killed and missing

Worker ants and soldier ants lost a total of 3,297 people

(Note: Two-thirds of the worker ants and soldier ants go out to work, and one-third of the worker ants and soldier ants stay at home to work)

Among them, the causes of death are as follows

45% were killed by carnivorous ant tribes

21% are preyed upon by frogs, lizards, beetles

16% were pinched to death by monkeys climbing trees

11% were trampled to death by wild boars and other large animals while running

The cause of death was unknown in 7%.

It can be seen that the biggest natural predator of ants is actually other types of ants, and although there are anteaters in the rainforest, they always reappear every once in a while.

The queen and Tonghua thought at the same time, fortunately it is the dry season, if in the rainy season, the rainforest will rain heavily every two or three days, so that countless ant sisters who go out are stoned to death by raindrops and lost due to the smell of raindrops, and the number of deaths and missing people caused every day will increase by 20%!

The reasons for the disappearance are as follows:

60% of them get lost and disappear while escaping from carnivorous ants

27% were blown away by the wind and lost their way

10% got lost and disappeared to avoid trampling large animals

3% disappeared for unknown reasons

For the ant tribe, missing means death, and few ants survive the night and return home alive the next day, because at night, they are either eaten in the carpet search of other carnivores, or the smell is diluted by the night dew, and they are forever lost in the cannibalistic jungle.

Ant Tonghua's voice stopped, and then said:

"Your Majesty, you will have a total of 3,297 children tomorrow, including 2,677 workers and 720 soldiers. ”

The Queen of the Red Roots, gently turning her tentacles, was silent for a long time, and finally said in a slightly hoarse voice:

"Forget it, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will not be born, and you will have more than 7,000 sisters starving every day! ”

"But the Queen, in this way, our tribe will not be able to maintain the balance of increasing and decreasing the number of people, then the number of our tribe will only get smaller and smaller!"

Ant Tonghua is right.

The ant is a microscopic animal that depends on its numbers to survive and strength.

For them, quantity is strength!

The fertility tradition of the ant tribe has always been to give birth to as much as it loses every day, so as to maintain the strength and power of the tribe unchanged, and even in the era when there is plenty of food, it is necessary to double the number of births on the basis of the loss every day!

Ant Tonghua couldn't help it, stepped forward and grabbed one of the queen's hands and said urgently:

"Half a year ago, we still had 1.5 million people, and now there are only about 1.26 million left, and if there are fewer and fewer every day, how can we compete with the surrounding carnivorous ant tribes in the future?

"Now with a population of 1.26 million, the combat power is just barely enough, and if it continues, the tribe is really in danger!"

"Yes, mother, Sister Tonghua is right! We can't have a smaller population?"

This is the voice of Ant Tinghua, and after she deliberately avoided Tonghua to report the population jù, she came in again at some point.

"Child, how could my mother not know?"

"But can you win the battle when you're hungry?"

The queen's words made the two girls bow their heads speechlessly, this, this is really a dilemma!

The moonlight was miserable, and it shone obliquely through the window on the faces of the three female ants.

They were silent.

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"Okay! Tomorrow morning at five o'clock (ants don't have watches, but they have their own precise biological clocks) call a meeting of ministers to listen to everyone's opinions. ”

The queen looked at the painful expressions of the two girls and felt distressed. had to choose to compromise for the time being, and let everyone decide whether she would give birth or not?

The two sisters, Ant Tinghua and Ant Tonghua, both showed fawn-like joy on their faces.

"Tell me, what's the good news for Sù Niang?"

The queen stared at them with a smile like an old fox that had caught two chicks.

"That antlion frog who killed a thousand knives is hanging!"

The sisters said in unison.

They endured it for a long time, and they wanted to surprise the Queen Mother!

"Really?" the Queen's eyes lit up, and her fat body sat up from the leaves, and she was really surprised and delighted!

No wonder there are no casualties reported from the antlion today! Before, this damn Fly Wuji hunted an average of 41 of his own children every day! And the process was extremely cruel! Every member of the tribe hated him to the core! But he was always helpless, like a poisonous thorn in his heart!

"What a drop!"

"Is it true?" the queen couldn't believe that such a difficult guy could hang it up like a piece of clothing!

"Mother! You show off! We ants don't lie!"

"Was he trampled to death by a wild boar that flew away?"

"Not a wild boar!"

"Which kind bird hero is that for the people?"

"It's not a bird either!"

"...... that?"

"It's a strange blue bug named Yu Qiyun!"

"Ahh How do you know?"

"He's in our house with his buddy!"

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The moon outside the window also seemed to be curious to hear what the mother and daughter were talking about......

In the end, I saw the Queen of Red Roots smiling happily.

Like a child.

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Attached "Diary of a Human Bug":

Nima: I'm finally done writing this episode!

I, the first person to finish in high school math, was almost dazzled by today's classification and numbers.

Xiaoqiang was lying on the table, motionless, already foaming at the mouth......

It's all his own calculations.

By the way, he doesn't need a calculator, hee-hee.

Dear Bugs,

For the sake of Xiaoqiang's classmates for this episode, he has to fight for half of his life,

It's time to show it!haha!

This is the first time in human history that there is such a detailed and vivid record of the life of ants.