As a fierce insect in the water, dragon lice have evolved a unique hunting method that is fierce and efficient.

Dragon lice are extremely camouflaged, with their flat bodies and large compound eyes, they look very pixelated and unthreatening. But these deceptive-looking insects will hide among the lush aquatic weeds or cover themselves with sand, and when prey appears, they will quickly cut out and complete the hunt.

The dragon lice's jaws are small but powerful, and once they catch their prey, they can effortlessly bite through the hard shells of other insects.

Dragon lice are also lions of aquatic insects, and they can even attack prey much larger than themselves in packs. Dragon lice eat in moderation, often overeat, and sometimes even be pushed to swim.

The dragon lice's fore-midfoot has become specific and has become relatively short, and the fore-midfoot is usually shrunk under the body, and once it finds its prey, it will shoot out like a switchblade to hook the prey. At the time of mating, in order to facilitate the male to hold the female tightly, some species of dragon lice even evolve suckers on the forefoot to strengthen the adsorption force.

As one of the few aquatic beetles, dragon lice have evolved their hind feet into gliding pulps, and their hind feet are covered with long hairs that allow them to fly fast. At the same time, their entire body develops into a streamlined shape, and the exoskeleton is fairly smooth, capable of minimizing the resistance to moving forward.

The hind feet of dragon lice are not just a weapon for swimming, they have a sharp serrated structure on the inside, like two short knives, and when they are caught, the hind feet become a tool for escape.

All of the above characteristics make dragon lice a terrifying killing machine and a hegemon in the water. The protagonist is finally able to witness the heroic hunting of dragon lice by this waterhole.

This waterhole is very clear, there are no water plants, and you can see the bottom at a glance. I saw the dragon lice quietly lurking under the mud and sand very close to the shore, revealing only a round back shell covered with gravel, if it weren't for the protagonist's good eyesight, he would have been deceived by them.

At this time, a large group of locusts is surrounding the waterhole, but they also seem to be aware of the threat in the waterhole, so they hesitate to approach.

But the feeling of thirst soon overwhelmed everything, and the locusts began to try to drink water, and they would suddenly rush to the water's edge, take a sip or two and immediately retreat, for fear of provoking some terrible existence.

As long as one locust takes the lead, the other locusts will also rush up, drink a few sips of water, and then flicker and evacuate, and a large group of locusts will drink water like a guerrilla war.

The dragon lice remained motionless, as if they had not noticed the locusts' tricks.

The dragon lice only start to drink water for a long time when a locust is less vigilant due to thirst, exhaustion, and slackness, and the hapless bastard happens to be very close to the ambushed dragon lice.

I saw that a piece of mud and sand at the bottom of the water suddenly stirred, and the clear water surface became a little turbid for a short time.

At this moment, the change had happened, and when you looked closely, the dragon lice had caught its prey and dragged the locust into the water. The fate of the locust is to drown, and before it is drowned, there are already large groups of dragon lice that have come up to bite, eat, and eat it alive.

In order to compete for food, dragon lice also fight with each other, using their large jaws, forefeet and hind feet to fight each other. This kind of fight is generally unable to help the hard carapace of the dragon lice, and only hopes to drive away the predators, but sometimes hitting the vital point can also kill the opponent.

Although hunters try to protect their prey, most of it is often snatched and eaten by their own kind that swarm. But the hunter is not discouraged, and the next time someone else succeeds in hunting, it will also join the team to grab food.

Sometimes the hunt was not very successful, and the dragon lice bit the locust's head, but were unsuccessful in dragging it into the water. Locusts use their well-developed legs to support their main body in an effort to escape the dragon lice's attacks backwards.

Once the dragon lice leave the water, it is like a tiger falling into Pingyang, and the threat is no longer there.

As a result, dragon lice paddle hard underwater, while locusts jump on the shore, and the two sides stage a tug-of-war about life and death. Contest

After watching the battle of the waterhole, the protagonist knows that this is just an episode, although the dragon lice are powerful, they are limited in number, and they cannot control the growth of locust swarms of this size.

Now there are only these nematode eggs that can be relied on, except for the Divine Envoy King Legion.

While most of the aquatic insects are attracted by dragon lice hunting, even the dragonfly larvae and water flies are trying to get a piece of the pie and find some dragon lice to eat the remaining remnants of the food, and they all gather on the gently sloped side of the waterhole.

The protagonist leads the worker ants to drop the nematode eggs from another steep shore where there are no locusts to drink from and no insects to gather underwater.

Within a few days, or even hours, these nematode eggs will hatch as if they were turning on an accelerator.

While some eggs and larvae will be eaten by other hungry and ferocious bugs, there will be many nematodes that will successfully enter the locusts as they drink, parasitizing them, weakening them, eating them, and killing them.

The protagonist leaves, but for the next few days, swarms of worker ants return every day, bringing with them the newly collected nematode eggs and some locust carcasses from the previous day, and continue to release them.

Now, the prey hunted by the Divine Envoy King's legion every day, the corpses that have been parasitized are no longer transported back to "Dongyang City", but are carried by the worker ants and thrown into the waterhole.

This will encourage the nematodes in the corpse to perceive the water and come out to mate and lay eggs, increasing the number of eggs laid and the survival rate.

The large number of locust carcasses left by ants also feeds dragon lice and other insects in the waterhole, reducing the likelihood that they will eat the nematodes or eggs in their mating due to hunger.

But there are also some locust carcasses that have not yet been thrown into the pool, and the nematodes inside are already eager to come out, these nematodes often do not live long, and the ants can only try to rescue their eggs.

Only the locust carcasses, which have flat bellies and are not parasitized, will be transported back to Dongyang City for food.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist has returned to "Dongyang City", with the release of a large number of nematode eggs, for a week, the Divine Envoy King Legion who is still fighting in the "transit station" has reported that they have found that the number of locust swarms has been controlled, and the proportion of locusts hunted that have been parasitized by nematodes has increased rapidly, and sometimes half of the locusts caught are parasitized.

This is a good sign, although the locust swarm is still large, but the number is declining, and the parasitic locust is unlikely to degenerate into a terrifying locust, and the protagonist's biological control tactics have succeeded.

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