The tribe quickly determined the location of the new nest and chose the natural location of the jujube tree's hollows and bark cracks.

We need to clean up the new nest site - there are a lot of dead leaves, floating soil, and some insects have chosen this place as a nest, so we have to drive them away or kill them.

In fact, compared to the warm and safe caves underground, our race is not very fond of this kind of nest in the tree.

Tree holes are far less warm than underground nests, and can be more difficult to survive in winter. It is also difficult to build or expand nests inside the trunk, and the wood is much harder than the soil.

But these problems can be overcome, as long as there is enough food, even if the tree hole is cold, we can eat, sleep and sleep through the cold winter. Although I have not experienced a cold winter, there are some older members of the tribe who have lived from last year to the present, and they say that winter is the season of evil gods, the most likely to die, and food is the only winter nemesis.

And our tribe is not large, and the existing tree hole is enough for our tribe to have a spacious space.

A few young and strong warriors and I went to the jujube tree and cleaned the hole first.

As we approached the dry ditch, the jujube tree appeared in front of us.

It's a tall tree, and it takes me a meal to climb from the root to any branch. If prey is abundant, sometimes such a date tree can support a small tribe.

Jujube trees have gray-brown bark, branches of different shapes, some long, some short, some new branches have a smooth surface, no longitudinal bark, but purple-red or gray-brown.

The leaves of the jujube tree are small, not as wide as the tung tree inhabited by the tribe opposite, the leaves are oval in the shape of an insect egg, and the leaves are only as wide as one or two warriors, and three or four warriors are as long. These leaves are dull and rounded at the tops, with short small pointed heads, and the edges of the leaves are jagged like the large jaws of some beetles. The leaves are dark green and glabrous on the top and light green and glabrous on the bottom, with only a few sparse hairs along the veins.

This jujube tree is very different from any other jujube tree I have seen before, its jujube head, secondary branches, and jujube hanging are all curly and unstraight, and the branches are dense, twisted, and stretched forward, like the earthworms we struggled with when we hunted before.

The drupes of the jujube tree are rectangular or oblong-oval, only slightly smaller than the leaves, and now is the time for the long to mature, with green and red skin.

These date trees will be very important to our tribe, although we don't eat these sweet fruits, even if they have the sweetness of honeydew. But a lot of prey likes the fruit, and we can get a lot of it near our new nest.

These prey include jujube gall mosquitoes, jujube armyworms, jujube bugs, scale insects, bugs, leaf ticks, red spiders, stinging moths, etc.

Jujube gall mosquito larvae like to eat the young leaves of the jujube tree, as long as they find the leaves are red, swollen, longitudinally curled, thickened, turned purple-red or black-brown, and withered and fell off, they can be found. These larvae are only as thick and long as the arthropods of our warriors at their largest, with soft carcasses that are milky white to pale yellow, body segments that are distinct, small brown heads, and a chest with an amber pectoral fork.

There aren't many jujube gall mosquito larvae this season, but they'll definitely be there next year, and they're easy prey to catch and a delicacy with delicate flesh.

Compared with the larvae of the jujube gall mosquito, which only likes to eat young leaves, the larvae of the jujube armyworm are much more complex, they love to eat jujube buds, jujube flowers, jujube leaves, and eat jujube fruits.

The larvae are about the same length as a warrior, with a beautiful pale green to yellowish or yellow carcass, a reddish-brown or brown head, and brown prothorax and rump with black-brown spots.

Now is the time when the larvae of the date armyworm appear in large numbers, so we randomly inspected some branches and fruits, and caught two for lunch.

In addition to the jujube tree, it is also common on plants such as pear trees, apple trees, hawthorn trees, begonia trees, apricot trees and poplars, and it is also the prey we often catch.

Jujube bud larvae have ventral feet, and when they move, they first move the tail end forward, arch their body, and then lift the front half of their body forward, which looks rather clumsy. They resemble a small branch when they are stationary, often fooling the gaze of hunters with less sensitive senses.

Scale insects are familiar to us, not only for their delicious meat, but also for their ability to produce honeydew. Outsiders like to raise scale insects and aphids in groups, but our race does not do this, and only kills and eats them.

Among the tsubaki elephants on the jujube tree, there are giant bugs, hemp bugs, tea-winged bugs, etc., and their nymphs and adults will suck the newly germinated shoots.

Tsubaki elephants are not good hunting targets, they have stinky gland holes, and can secrete odorous fluids, which volatilize into unbearable odors in the air. In addition, some Tsubaki elephants are carnivorous, and if they are mistaken for their object, they may encounter a fight, which can lead to injury or death of the warrior in severe cases.

But the meat is delicious, high in protein, low in fat, and has a strong special aroma, like the scent of some kind of tree bark. Attract some warriors to go hunting without hesitation.

Leaf ticks are a particularly small kind of insects, which are generally not worth hunting, but if you are very hungry, you can also find patches of leaf ticks and eat them one by one to satisfy your hunger.

These leaf tick adults and nymphs like to eat leaves and flowers, and the leaves of the edible jujube tree will proliferate, the leaves will shrink, and the leaf edge will be curled to the front, which is convex and uneven, or red and swollen and wrinkled, and the back of the leaf is spongy, and there is a lot of water loss and dryness. Following these characteristics, we can find large colonies of leaf ticks.

Spider mites are not actually spiders, but leaf mites. Adult mites are not very large, but they look quite like spiders. Its body color varies greatly, generally red, pear-shaped, and has a long black spot on each side of the dorsal body.

Spider mites are larger than leaf ticks, but they also often appear in groups. They first live on both sides of the main vein on the back of the leaf, and gradually spread throughout the leaf in small groups. When there are too many spiders, they can also spin like real spiders, crawl on the surface of the plant, and move to other places where food is more abundant.

The larvae of the stinging moth are short and slug-like. It has no gastropods, and instead of suckers, it does not crawl but slides when moving.

Some stinging moth larvae have bright body colors, and the appendages are densely covered with brown prickly hair, like unkempt hair, and the appendages protrude out of the cocoon when forming cocoons for protection and camouflage. When disturbed, it will sting its target with poisonous stingers, which are so poisonous that some fighters will die from it. (The larvae of the stinging moth are the notorious spicy seeds, spicy hairs, eight-street hairs, tentacle hairs, and bar clips)

These are the main prey near our new lair.