The protagonist rides Xiaoqing, about three meters away from the gathered group of paving ants, watching everything that happens in this wedding ceremony.

It's a safe distance, and most insects don't have enough eyesight to notice a small spot up to three meters away, including the paver ants that are competing fiercely in the field and have to hide from predators.

And the paver ants on the ground can't see the protagonist in the sky clearly, and even if they see a vague shadow, they will probably mistake it for a predatory insect.

The biggest threat is the predatory dragonflies and wasps, but they clearly have a clearer target: the paver ants who participate in the wedding ceremony.

These paver ant males and females are young ants that have just broken their pupae this year, and they are rich in various nutrients in their bodies, which are stored in the form of ** or eggs in their hypertrophied abdomen.

For predators, the male and female ants are at their fattest, and this temptation is as irresistible as that of a human being when faced with a hairy crab covered in cream and yellow.

With so many fat prey gathered together, all the hungry insects in this barren spring could not resist this temptation, and the protagonists who were far away obviously did not have this temptation.

Only a few well-fed and well-fed insects pass by the protagonist at a close distance as they leave, but at this point they are clearly not planning to attack the protagonist, but are preparing to go back and digest the day's food.

This wedding ceremony is simply a bloody death ceremony of paving ants, and it is also a gluttonous feast for predators.

There are many paver ants chasing and competing in the air, but there are also many predators, and some even come from all over the south bank of the river to participate in the gluttonous feast. Vespas, in particular, often call out to their friends when they find their prey, and an entire nest arrives to start a slaughter.

Even in the face of the bloody maws of countless predators, the males of the paving ants did not flinch, they avoided the predators on the one hand, chased the females on the other, and constantly had to fight fiercely with the competing males.

At this moment, the male and female paving ants flying in the air have lost the protection of their colonies, they are no longer at the top of the food chain that all insects smell and discolor, but they have become pathetic prey, and at the same time they are killing each other like madmen.

The protagonist looks at it and shakes his head, and the casualty rate of the wedding flight ceremony of the paving ants is far greater than that of the wedding flight ceremony of the big-headed ants.

This is because the ritual of the big-headed ants is gathered all over the country, and the number of participating members is only a few hundred, and the ground security force is relatively strong, and they will expel the fierce insects on the ground within a certain range in advance, so the ritual casualty rate is about 50%. This is shocking enough in the eyes of the protagonist.

As for the wedding and flight ceremony of the paver ants, the number of male and female ants gathered at this ceremony site alone exceeded the number of participants in the national ceremony of the big-headed ant kingdom. With so many "delicacies", it is natural to attract a large number of predators in the vicinity. In addition, the ground security of the paver ants is not done well, but a safe area is established to shelter all the male and female ants who have successfully mated or abandoned the ritual, and the male and female ants who are performing the ritual can only fend for themselves.

In this case, the casualty rate of the paver ants participating in the ceremony will eventually be as high as 80%, and at least as far as the protagonist can see, countless male and female ants will be reduced to pieces in the mouths of various predators.

Dragonflies wave two pairs of membranous wings and hunt with their superb flying skills.

They love to chase a prey in the air, while the paver ants only fly for the first time when they participate in the ceremony, and are no match for the dragonfly's air supremacy in terms of speed, technique, and experience.

Once the dragonfly has identified a prey target, it keeps the prey in its line of sight at all times, constantly adjusts its flight path, and is able to predict the movement of its prey before taking action. It is difficult for the targeted paver ants to escape, and they are often caught by dragonflies from behind.

In the final stages of the pursuit, the dragonfly's legs bend to form a basket structure, allowing the paver ants to fall into it, while still flying. The dragonfly that catches its prey then looks for a higher stop nearby to enjoy its meal. Some impatient dragonflies will even hover in the air to eat, or eat while flying, saving time for the next hunt.

Ladybugs have a more brutal predatory method, and although they are round, they are extremely agile in the air. With the help of their large size, ladybugs will drag the caught paver ants to the ground, then quickly kill them, picking up the prey and flying away before the paver ant guards arrive.

Vespas are fierce-looking, numerous, and swarming, and they are the predators that cause the most casualties to paver ants.

These wasps are about 16 mm long, with orange antennae, wings, and tarsal segments, but a shiny black body with yellow stripes and paired spots. Their well-developed chewing mouthparts and venomous stinging needles are excellent hunting tools and can be daunting.

There may be as many as 1,000 wasps in a nest, and there are hundreds of wasps at the scene of this death ritual. On weekdays, these wasps mainly hunt bees and other species, but in today's rare feast, male and female paving ants are also good prey.

These wasps act in a collective manner, dividing and surrounding the scattered paving ants, and then concentrating on attacking a part of them. This group of unfortunate paver ants is basically doomed when faced with wasps whose size, strength and flying skills are far superior to their own.

These ferocious wasps even dared to descend to the ground to hunt prey that was fleeing to the guard positions of the Paving Ant Army. Only when the army of paving ants counterattacked did they easily shake their wings and slip away.

Vesps are not only efficient at killing, but even more terrifying is that they are picky eaters. After capturing their prey, the wasps only eat or take away the belly of the fattest paving ant, and the other heads, limbs, and wings are discarded. If it weren't for the fact that every wasp that captured its prey had to travel all the way back to the nest, I was afraid that the hundreds or thousands of male and female paving ants would be slaughtered within a few hours.

The wedding ceremony, or death ceremony, lasted for half an hour, and only about 20 percent of the male or female ants survived. Some of them have successfully mated, while others have given up on the game of life and death.

Interestingly, the protagonist notices that the males have taken refuge in a safe area on the ground after the ceremony. Only half of the females who successfully mated returned to the safe zone, while the other half fled in all directions.

What is good is that a female ant that is being chased by a wasp is actually fleeing in the direction of the protagonist......