Chapter 423: Big Water Ants
The production is exquisite, the quality is also very good, after Mao Feng sent it, Chu Jiaqiang immediately started to write it and took out all the postcards he received. These postcards, followed by the addresses and zip codes left by tourists, are also what Chu Jiaqiang hopes everyone will leave.
When the night slowly fell, almost every household in the village suddenly flew a lot of large water ants, which made people's scalps numb, and the number was almost comparable to that of the bees in the Bee Valley.
Those tourists have also seen this big ant with wings, which always flies to a place with lights at night. If you look at these things, it means that heavy rain is coming.
If you look closely, you will see that this ant not only has wings, but also has a pale "+" pattern in the center of the dorsal plate of the prothorax. There are three types of ants: soldier ants, worker ants, and queen ants.
The head of the soldier ant is particularly large, the widest part is located in the middle and rear part of the skull, and it is dark yellow; The upper jaw is stout, sickle-shaped, black, and the right upper jaw is toothless. The small soldier ant is much smaller in size and lighter in color than the large soldier ant; The head is ovate, and the posterior lateral angle is rounded.
Worker ant heads are round, brownish-yellow; thorax and abdomen light brownish-yellow, anterior dorsal plate about half the width of the head, anterior margin raised; The abdomen is swollen like an olive. The queen ant is very distinguishable and has no wings.
They belong to insects with social organization, often build nests underground, ant nests are divided into main and secondary nests, the size of the secondary nests is different, distributed around the main nest, and there are ant roads between the main and auxiliary nests.
There are different forms of individual groups in a nest, and there is a clear division of labor. Soldier ants are responsible for defending the nest, worker ants are responsible for nesting, feeding, and tending young ants, and queen ants and ants reproduce soldier ants and worker ants. Except for the royal family and the supplementary royal family, there is only one pair or number outside. The rest of the soldiers and workers often have hundreds or thousands to millions of ants.
"Strange! Didn't the weather forecast say that there would be no rain in Gaoxin City in the past two days? I checked it when I came, and I was depressed, and it rained when I came here. "There was a tourist who only arrived today.
Before coming, he looked at the weather forecast and found that it would not rain for a few days, so he came. Otherwise, it rains every day when he comes here, so isn't he here to hide from the rain?
"It's not surprising that weather forecasts aren't necessarily accurate. What is incomprehensible is that there should not be heavy rain at this time. But seeing so many large water ants flying into the house, it is almost certain that a heavy rain will arrive tonight, or tomorrow. Another tourist spoke.
"Huh! Have you forgotten? It's also close to the ocean, and the weather is changeable. Spring is not without heavy rains, and even if there is a typhoon, you should not make a fuss. A tourist from a southeastern coastal city said. He often lives on the coast. This situation is also relatively clear.
"These big water ants should come out of the deep mountains, and this time Chujiazhai suffered. Reputedly. This large water ant is specialized in destruction. A female tourist said.
According to her understanding, large water ants can harm many trees, houses and furniture such as fir trees, metasequoia, black locust, paulownia, chestnut and so on. They nest in the soil, feed on the roots and stems of trees, build mud blankets on trees, gnaw on tree bark, and can also invade the xylem through wounds. Seedlings often die after being killed, and adult trees grow poorly after being killed. Furthermore. It can also jeopardize the safety of the embankment. People often say: A thousand miles of lifting collapsed in an anthill! That's what we're talking about.
Brown bears are happy, they also like to eat ants. Also happy are the chickens and the yellow eels in the big ditch. These are all foods they love, and this time they can have a full meal.
Chu Jiaqiang and the people who raised yellow eels in the village hurriedly turned on the insect trap lamp. At the same time, open the door of the house, so as to reduce the large water ants flying into the house. Affect everyone's mood.
It's just that this is also to no avail, there are too many big water ants. Large water ants with wings have one characteristic, that is, phototaxis. See the light. They'll find a way to get in.
The Chu family came out with a basin of water and held it up to the light. After a while, there were more than half a pot of large water ants in the pot, and people had goosebumps.
"How can there be so many!" Liang Yu and the others' faces changed.
"It's not surprising that there are vast mountains inside, and how many insects there are in it, no one knows very well. There will be no shortage of this kind of big water ants, it can be said that not only Chujiazhai, but also the entire town, I am afraid that they are surrounded by them! Definitely no less than the one in Bee Valley. It is also predictable that there will be a widespread rainfall. Professor Wen was not only not afraid, but looked at these big water ants with great interest.
As for some people worrying that it will affect the production of Chujiazhai, it is completely unnecessary. Big water ants look like a lot of them now, but I'm afraid they're going to die tomorrow! Water is their nemesis. When it rains, almost all those who don't go into the house to take shelter from the rain will die.
In this way, it may fatten out those frogs and the like, and large water ants are also their favorite food.
"You go ahead and take me to work, and I'll pour it into the ditch. Blessed are those eels this time. Chu Jiaqiang opened his mouth and asked Zhou Furong to take over his work.
"You better let that guy Chen Wu help!" Zhou Furong shook his head again and again, seeing the dense large water ants under the lamp, his scalp was already numb, where did he dare to walk over? Didn't you see that Chu Jiaqiang's hair was already crawling with those big water ants that were constantly crawling?
Chen Wu also hurriedly waved his hand, if there were not many things, it would not scare them like this, but it was too much, they suspected that they would be all over their bodies immediately.
Chu Jiaqiang hurriedly put down the big water ant in that pot, because a big water ant had already crawled into his ears, and hurriedly caught it out. As soon as this was caught, the other climbed in along his nostrils, and Chu Jiaqiang snorted hard. Now, he didn't dare to stay long.
Seeing Chu Jiaqiang fleeing in embarrassment, the others were even more afraid to approach those lights.
There were only two bears waiting to eat under the light, sticking out their tongues and rolling the big water ants into their mouths and eating them beautifully.
Fortunately, everyone in the countryside has mosquito nets, otherwise I'm afraid this night will be difficult, right?
Also all of them were dispatched, as well as bats. They also want to take the opportunity to have a full stomach, which is a rare opportunity!
"There are a lot of bats out there, it's scary!" Xu Bimei said. Tonight, everyone stayed in the house, closed the door, and kept the big water ants outside and let the bats clean up.
Inside the house, Chu Jiaqiang's method was used to eliminate most of them, so that they could eat with confidence, otherwise who would be in the mood to eat. There are a few large water ants flying on the food to add food, and everyone may not know it, that is the tragedy.