The hive is attractive to the main character.

The hive contains resources such as honey, royal jelly, beeswax, and bees.

Honey is a natural sweetener, bees take nectar or secretions with a water content of about 75% from the flowers of plants, store them in their second stomach, under the action of a variety of complex transformations in the body, after about 15 days of repeated brewing, when various vitamins, minerals and amino acids are enriched to a certain value, the polysaccharides in the nectar are converted into monosaccharides glucose and fructose, and then the honey is brewed. Bees store honey with less than 23% moisture content in the nest and seal it with beeswax.

Honey is a nutritious and naturally nourishing food and one of the most commonly used tonics. It contains a variety of inorganic salts and vitamins, iron, calcium, copper, manganese, potassium, phosphorus and other organic acids and trace elements beneficial to human health, as well as fructose, glucose, amylase, oxidase, reductase and other nutrients, with nourishing, moisturizing, detoxifying, whitening and nourishing, moisturizing and laxative.

Humans have a long history of using honey, and before the advent of sucrose, honey was almost the only important source of sweetness. According to the Bible, God told Moses to lead the Israelites who were slaves in Egypt out of Egypt to the land of milk and honey, the land of Canaan, on the east shore of the Mediterranean Sea and west of the Jordan River. It can be seen that honey is considered one of the most beautiful foods in mythology.

Honey was also an important food in the Middle East in ancient times, and it is said that John the Baptist lived on wild honey.

"Shennong's Materia Medica" lists "stone honey, bees, and beeswax" as the top grade, pointing out that it has the effect of "removing all kinds of diseases and medicines", and "taking more and more for a long time does not hurt people." ”

Guo Pu praised in "Bee Fu": "Scattered like nectar, condensed like cutting fat, chilled jade, and smooth orchid." Hundreds of medicines must be harmonious, and Bian Que can get them and have good skills. ”

For the protagonist, honey, like aphid honeydew and nectar, is a very important luxury resource for controlling ants.

Honeydew is very important to ants and is a rare embellishment in their ordinary life. The protagonist has no doubt that if the supply of honeydew is interrupted, it will cause a great deal of resistance from these seemingly loyal males. On the contrary, if he has enough honey resources at hand, he can also strengthen his control over his subordinates, and even buy the males of other nests.

Compared to the time-consuming and laborious collection of honeydew and nectar, bees are much more efficient in collecting honey. There is still a general shortage of honeydew in the protagonist's territory, and it would be great news if they could get a stable supply of honey for a long time.

In addition, honey also has healing properties. Applying honey to traumatic wounds can reduce fluid exudation, reduce pain, promote wound healing, inhibit bacterial growth, and prevent infection when treating wounds. In a world devoid of modern medicine, perhaps honey can save lives at a critical moment.

Compared to honey, royal jelly is more precious.

The composition of royal jelly is quite complex, generally containing 64.5-69.5% moisture, 11-14.5% crude protein, 13-15% carbohydrates, 6.0% lipids, 0.4-2% minerals, and 2.84-3.0% unidentified substances. Royal jelly has the functions of assisting in lowering blood sugar, antioxidant, lowering blood lipids, controlling vasodilation, lowering blood pressure, protecting the liver, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and anti-aging.

However, there is another point that the protagonist values more than its nutritional and health value, which is an idea that pops up to the protagonist.

In fact, royal jelly is a kind of emulsion secreted by young and middle-aged bees after eating pollen, which is like the ** of mammals, which has great nutritional value and immune function.

Among the bees, the worker bee and the queen bee are the same in the egg stage, after hatching, they only eat royal jelly for three days and then change to eat honey and pollen to grow into bees, and the young bees who have been eating royal jelly after hatching grow into queen bees, and the lifespan of worker bees is one to six months, and the queen bee can generally live for five to seven years because she has been eating royal jelly.

In the protagonist's view, the decisive factor in determining whether a newborn female ant will eventually grow into a worker ant, a soldier ant, a large worker ant, or a queen ant in the ant community - the ant's high-grade food seems to be another kind of "royal jelly".

The protagonist has been heartbroken by the average intelligence level of the ants, and does not have enough group IQ to support the establishment of a new society.

At present, the intelligence level of male ants is acceptable, and they can reach the level of human teenagers who are about ten years old.

Queens and males are roughly equal in intelligence, but queens do not have access to formal education (except for secret inheritance), and most queens do not fully develop their intelligence.

The large worker ant class is an important step taken by the protagonist to change the ant world, and he proves that as long as ordinary worker ants are given enough high-grade food, their mental development can also progress rapidly. However, high-grade food is also an important resource for the nest, and it is extremely easy to touch the sensitive nerves of the male ant class, and the protagonist is currently unable to provide enough high-grade food for the large worker ant class without restrictions.

But since the functions of royal jelly and high-grade foods are so similar, can feeding royal jelly to ants have the same effect as high-grade foods? If the experiment comes to a positive conclusion, the protagonist has one more card in his hand.

After all, the ancestors of ants and bees are the same, and the protagonist has confidence in the idea of replacing high-grade food with royal jelly that pops up in his head.

And beeswax.

Beeswax, also known as yellow wax, beeswax. Beeswax is a fatty substance secreted by 4 pairs of wax glands in the abdomen of working-age workers in a colony. In a colony, worker bees use the wax they secrete to build the nest spleen, ovary cap, and feed room cap. The spleen of the nest is a place for bees to store food, nurture bees and inhabit clumps, so beeswax is not only a product of the colony, but also an essential material for its survival and reproduction.

Beeswax has a wide range of uses in the industrial and agricultural production of the human world. In the cosmetics manufacturing industry, beeswax is contained in many beauty products, such as bath gel, lipstick, rouge, etc.; In the candle processing industry, various types of candles can be made with beeswax as the main raw material; In the pharmaceutical industry, beeswax can be used to make dental casting wax, base wax, sticky wax, pill shells; In the food industry, it can be used as coatings, packaging and outerwear for food; In agriculture and animal husbandry, it can be used as a fruit tree wax and pest adhesive; In the beekeeping industry, nest bases and wax bowls can be manufactured.

For the protagonist, with beeswax, not only can candles and other light sources be made, but in the future, if Ant World develops metalworking skills, there will also be materials to realize the lost-wax casting process. It is a material that is essential for the emerging industry of Ant World.

And in the hive, there is another resource that also makes the protagonist excited-the bees themselves.