Honeybee is a general term for the insects of the Apiaceae family of the Hymenoptera Slender Waist Suborder Needletail Bee Family, and is an important group of Hymenoptera.

It is an important resource in its own right. It's not that bees can be used as domesticated meat animals, but the protagonist has long believed that bees are a more suitable aerial mount than flies.

Domesticating (or semi-domesticating) flies is an unexpected event and is not in the protagonist's original plans.

The protagonist is raising mealworms in "Dongyang Castle", and accidentally discovers that mealworm eggs have been mixed with fly eggs and have hatched and broken pupa.

Through a series of means, the protagonist is lucky to reluctantly ambush Xiaoqing I, but this domestication is incomplete.

Until now, the protagonist often feels powerless when controlling the mount, Xiaoqing II. Especially when encountering emergencies or dangers, the mount will often abandon its owner and put it in danger.

This degree of domestication is obviously insufficient, although the immediate cause may be that the domestication time is too short and the domestication process is not completely completed. However, the protagonist believes that the deeper reason is that flies are solitary creatures, which is not good for domestication.

Taking human society as an example, the same pet that humans are familiar with, the degree of domestication of dogs is much higher than that of cats, and cats are still semi-domesticated until modern society.

One of the important reasons is that the ancestors of dogs, wolves, were social animals, while the ancestors of cats were used to living alone.

In social animals, individual obedience, as a social trait, is itself the result of evolution, because, according to the evolutionary principle of "natural selection, survival of the fittest", those animal groups that do not have such individual obedience will have more existential crises, so this lack of obedience genes have only fewer chances of inheritance.

This is essentially the same as the "dedication" of the worker ants in the colony and the worker bees in the colony, which are the result of the evolution of the entire species population.

In this sense, this condition of domesticated animals also shows that they have "self-domesticated" at least before they were domesticated by humans. Their group survival and hierarchical relationships within the group belong to the "natural selection" part.

It may be said that those who are domesticated are always willing to be domesticated. Because, before they were domesticated by humans, they had already domesticated themselves.

Other domesticated animals, such as horses, cattle, camels, reindeer and pigs, are also animals that live in groups.

Therefore, the fly species has a birth defect in domestication, and the protagonist cannot make them feel a sense of belonging to the colony in any case, and the reason why they are happy to stay in the nest is more for food and honeydew. Once they can't be satisfied with food and honeydew, there is a chance that they will walk away.

This has already happened in "Dongyang City", and there are always some "unwilling to be lonely" fly mounts that will try to leave the fly stable.

For these unstoppable stingers, the worker ants in the guards can only kill them for meat. The more docile flies were kept for breeding and serving. Perhaps after a few hundred generations, the right flies will be successfully bred.

But at least for now, the flies aren't particularly qualified mounts.

Unlike bees, bees, like ants, are a true social insect. The bees in the hive have a strong sense of belonging and are even willing to give their lives for the colony. This group behavior and sense of belonging allows them to meet the conditions of "self-domestication" when they are domesticated.

Although bees are weaker than flies in their ability to fly individually, their three advantages are more than enough to make up for this deficiency.

One is the habit of group life mentioned earlier, as long as the queen bee can be controlled, there is no need for ants to guard it, and the bees will consciously live in their approved nests and colonies.

Second, bees are able to feed themselves and provide additional honey, royal jelly and beeswax, which have important economic value. Unlike flies, which require ants to provide additional food and honeydew.

Finally, bees have a certain ability to defend themselves. Although this self-defense ability is a one-time thing, when the bees are attacked, they will use the tail sting to fight back, and once the bee sting is used, it will also pull out the bee's digestive system, causing the bee to die.

However, this is much better than a fly that has no ability to defend itself and can only flee, at least because of this potential threat, some predators are reluctant to choose bees to attack, which invisibly provides a layer of security for the flying knight.

Now, such a nest of bees that the protagonist is optimistic about has appeared near "Dongyang City", which undoubtedly makes him very happy.

Although the timing is not right at the moment, the protagonist cannot invest too many people and resources to tame the hive. But he believes that when he frees his hands, this hive will be in his pocket.

Therefore, the protagonist forbids Rambo Fei to take any hostile actions against this hive, and even asks that the ants of "Dongyang City" must not climb the big poplar tree to avoid conflict with the bee colony. Even if Rambo Fei looks very reluctant.

The protagonist himself rides Xiaoqing II, trying to get a closer look at the hive from the air.

The location of the hive is relatively secret, and if it weren't for Rambofei's reminder and the protagonist following the trajectory of the bees returning to the hive, he might not have found it.

The hive is built in a tree hole in the middle of a poplar tree, and the entrance to the tree hole is not large, which is the size of a human fist. Such a small entrance is also covered in the dense dark green foliage of poplars, which can only be found when you get closer.

The entrance was covered in beeswax, leaving only a narrow entrance, pitch black, and I don't know how far into the hive.

There are always some bees on the lookout at the mouth of the hive, some flying in the air circling around the nest, and some lying on the trunk of a tree. Bees that have gone out to forage and have returned from foraging pass by at the narrow entrances and exits, showing a sense of life.

The protagonist wants to get closer, but Aoi II has shown obvious resistance, it has seen the bees and knows that these creatures are not easy to provoke.

As a result, Xiaoqing II begins to refuse to obey the protagonist's orders and tries to stay away from the hive. Even though the protagonist constantly controls the mount's balance bar directly through the reins and forcibly changes its flight trajectory, when the protagonist is a little relieved, Xiaoqing II immediately takes over his body and tries to escape.

This is a constant headache for the protagonist, who is unable to completely control the mount.

The strange flying posture of the protagonist and the mount finally arouses the alarm of the patrolling bee guards, and a bee begins to approach the protagonist.

So the protagonist can only give up this reconnaissance and control Xiaoqing II to return to "Dongyang City", at this time Xiaoqing II finally stopped being a demon and honestly obeyed the command.