Chapter 116 Beetle Domestication and Breeding Guide (3)
The different juvenile stages of the unicorn fairy are similar to take care of them, pay attention to maintaining a certain temperature and humidity, provide sufficient food, pay attention to eliminating fungi and mites, and pay attention to hygiene.
For example, in terms of humidity, unicorn larvae must live in a humid environment because the valve is open, otherwise it is easy to die due to rapid loss of water in the body.
In terms of temperature, the most suitable temperature for the growth of unicorn larvae is 23-25°C, which is the temperature at which they feed most actively and grow the best. Although the larvae can tolerate high temperatures of 30 ° C, they will adversely affect their growth, and their food intake will decrease below 20 °C, grow slowly, and they will enter a dormant state below 10 °C, and they will basically not eat, and their body weight will be reduced. Unicorn larvae can only tolerate excessively high or low temperatures for a short period of time, after which they die in large numbers.
In terms of food, although unicorn larvae are docile and can live in groups, they can also bite each other when they are too dense and have insufficient food.
In addition to plant foods such as sawdust, unicorn larvae also like to eat foods with high content of protein and fat, and some of these ingredients need to be appropriately supplemented.
In the stage of raising unicorn larvae, especially after the larvae grow to the second instar, the ants should pay attention to the smell information of the nest at the breeding site, so that these larvae can adapt to the existence of the keeper as soon as possible, be familiar with their taste, and prepare for domestication after breaking the pupae.
After more than 20 days, the unicorn fairy pupae emerge, and the newly fledged adult elytra are white and soft, and after a few hours they become dark and hardened. Newly emerged adults do not feed or move, and will continue to lie dormant in the pupal chamber for more than ten days, and then emerge from the soil to begin feeding and mating.
This dormant time is the best time for the mysterious big-headed ant colony to tame the unicorn fairy, if the domestication fails during this period of time, it will be difficult to domesticate again, and the beetles that have failed to domesticate can only be killed and eaten. Because during this time period, the unicorn fairy is unusually docile, and it is the easiest time to communicate.
The way they tame beetles such as the unicorn fairy is not the way the protagonist now domesticates flies on a large scale, relying mainly on a combination of honeydew rewards and stinging punishments, but using a method similar to mind control.
As the protagonist already knows, ants and flies can communicate with each other through their antennae, and by extension, ants and other insects, including beetles such as unicorns, can communicate.
Although this communication is not through language, the protagonist fails to communicate directly with the flies in the form of an ant's message.
However, emotions and packets of information can be communicated. Just as a man and a wolf can't talk, but when they see the wolf running away with their tail between their legs, they can know that the wolf is afraid.
Therefore, the way the protagonist communicates with the fly is to send a message packet that allows the receiver (i.e., the fly) to view the sender's personal experience or his concocted experience from a first-person perspective.
The protagonist uses the idea of sending a fictitious message packet to let the fly know that he will be rewarded for accepting his command, and that he will be stung if he disobeys. And, after that, the behavior-result correspondence of the packet is strictly enforced, and the flies are eventually semi-domesticated, accepting the fact that they are ridden by the Flying Knight in exchange for food and safety.
This is also the way this mysterious colony of big-headed ants transmits packets, but with the packets alone, they can teach the unicorn to cooperate with them to complete the domestication. This is due to the fact that the beetles are not resistant to ants, and these big-headed ants spend time with the unicorn fairy when they are still larvae, so that they are stained with the smell of their nest.
The beetles that have just broken their pupae are not only docile, but also stupid, their brains are a mushy mess that needs time to slowly awaken the instincts deep in their genes.
At this time, the mysterious big-headed ant colony will deceive these one-horned fairies in the information packet, so that the one-horned fairy thinks that they are of the same race as the big-headed ants, so that it is easier to let go of these domesticators.
The packets sent by the ants in the past, if done well, can completely mask some of the unicorns' instincts, allowing them to master the skills they will need in the future, such as how to receive the ant's command signals, in the way the ant wants.
When the protagonist sees this, he can't help but be amazed by the ability of this group of mysterious big-headed ants, this is definitely not a simple domestication technology, it is definitely an experience and method summed up after long-term practice.
Although the mysterious big-headed ant has left a hand and does not provide the information package needed for domestication in this most critical period, the protagonist has already seen that it is indeed feasible.
Moreover, although this domestication is aimed at beetles, to be more precise, it is more of an example of a unicorn, but considering that many beetles have similar living habits, it can also be used to domesticate other beetles such as stag beetles.
And the principle contained in it made the protagonist suddenly think of many ways to improve his existing domestication of flies. The protagonist even thinks that he can already learn from the experience and try to domesticate many other insects.
It can be said that the domestication technology mastered by this mysterious group of big-headed ants is definitely an advanced scientific technology, not something that a small group can master, and even the "big countries" with relatively vast territories such as the big-headed ant kingdom and the paving ant barbarian country have not been able to develop this kind of technology for hundreds of thousands of years.
In the protagonist's view, the technological level of the big-headed ant kingdom and the paving ant barbarian kingdom is about to stay in the Paleolithic Age, and this mysterious big-headed ant colony, purely from the perspective of domestication technology, has at least entered the Neolithic Age after the agricultural revolution by human standards.
Considering that the mysterious colony of big-headed ants calls themselves "remnants" (survivors who have not disappeared with their old world nests and arrived in another world), they refer to another world.
The protagonist believes that this community comes from a country with a more developed civilization, and that even the civilization of that "world" is more developed than the two countries on both sides of the river and many indigenous peoples.
It was a whole new world, a world that made the protagonist's blood boil - the protagonist had stayed in this stupid place for too long, and the entire big-headed ant kingdom and even the entire valley on both sides of the river were like a prison, and the prisoners in it were ignorant and closed, and the fire of their civilization seemed to be faintly extinguished at any time.
In this environment, the protagonist seems to feel that his soul and mind from the real "other world" are also degrading.
If this is the way this world is, maybe the protagonist will resign himself to his fate.
But now, a little spark of a more advanced civilization ignites the passion in the protagonist's heart that is about to turn to ashes - he wants to figure out the situation of this new world, even if it is only a little more advanced than the current one.