How does the white-striped bee deal with caterpillars? Su San's eyes observed the whole process without blinking, and he felt very exciting:

A white-striped wasp found a caterpillar on a leaf, and swooped down on it, biting the caterpillar's neck with its mouth, and the caterpillar struggled violently and writhed.

However, the white-striped wasp did not hurry, but stepped aside to avoid a violent collision, and then pierced the sting on the joint between the caterpillar's head and the first segment, which is where the caterpillar's skin is most tender. This is the most life-threatening of all, as it allows the caterpillar to be completely controlled by the white-striped wasp.

Unexpectedly, the white-striped wasp suddenly left the caterpillar, lay down on the ground, writhed violently, kept rolling, shaking its feet, flapping its wings, as if it was dying, but then it suddenly got up, flapped its wings, cut its beard, and returned to the caterpillar vividly.

In the scene just now, it was actually the white striped bee celebrating the victory, not being injured to the ground.

Then, the wasp grabbed the caterpillar on the back, slightly lower than the first, and began to prick the second segment of its body with its thorns, still stinging underneath, and stabbing down one by one.

There are feet on the first three segments, then no feet on the next two, and then feet on the next four, but they are not real feet, at best they are just protrusions, a total of nine segments, but as early as the first pricking of the white-striped bee, the caterpillar has little resistance.

Finally, the white-striped bee opened its pincer-like mouth to its maximum width, clamped the caterpillar's head, and gently squeezed it rhythmically, but tried not to injure it. With each press, the red-striped bee has to stop to see how the caterpillar reacts.

In this way, stop, wait, and press, the cycle goes on and on. This surgery to control the brain cannot be done too violently, otherwise the caterpillar is likely to die. Strange to say, why didn't the red-striped bee want it to die?

Now, the white-striped bee's surgical operation on the caterpillar has ended, and the caterpillar is lying on the ground, unable to move, almost lifeless, only a breath remains, and it is allowed to be dragged into the hole by the white-striped bee, and it cannot do the slightest resistance if it does not do it.

When the white-striped wasp lays its eggs on it, it is also incapable of harming the larvae of the white-striped wasp that grows on it.

This is the purpose of the anesthetic work done by the white-striped bee: it is preparing food for the future baby. After dragging the caterpillar into the hole, lay an egg on it, and when the larvae hatch from the egg, they can use the caterpillar as food.

Think about it, what would happen if the caterpillar could still move? With a slight turn, it can easily crush the eggs of the red-striped bee!

Of course, the caterpillar will not move, but it cannot die completely, because if it dies, the corpse will quickly decay, and it is not suitable for food for the larvae of the white-striped wasp.

Therefore, the white-striped wasp uses its stinger to pierce each nerve center of the caterpillar, so that it loses the ability to move, and survives half-dead, automatically "keeping fresh" food for the larvae in the future. Look, how smart and thoughtful the white bee is!

However, when you see the process of pulling its prey home, you will find that it is much more thoughtful than that.

It thought that the caterpillar's head had not been injured and that its mouth could still move. When it is dragged by the wasp, it is able to bite the grass on the ground, thus preventing the wasp from dragging it forward, so the wasp has to find a way to paralyze the caterpillar's head.

This time it stopped using its stinger, as that would kill the caterpillar. It continued to squeeze and rub the caterpillar's head, which was so good that the caterpillar quickly lost consciousness and was tossed and fainted.

In addition to the intelligent white-striped bee, Su San also found another industrious mining bee - the brindle bee, a wild bee with a thin waist, they are different in size, the big one is bigger than the wasp, and the small one is smaller than the fly. But they have a common feature, that is, it has a distinct groove at the bottom of its abdomen, and in the groove hides a thorn that can move back and forth to protect itself when the enemy comes to invade. The female bee has beautiful red markings, and her elongated abdomen is surrounded by black and brown stripes.

Brindle bees like to live in groups, and in spring, they come to camp in swarms in the solid soil. Each colony varies in number, with the largest numbering almost a hundred wasps, making this area their home base.

Each brindle wasp has its own separate room (nest). No one is allowed to enter this room except itself. If an uninteresting bee wants to break into someone's room, the owner will unceremoniously give it a sword. Therefore, everyone guards their own homes, no one offends anyone, and this small society is full of peace.

The interior of each nest is smooth and delicate, and even faint hexagonal marks can be seen, which are the traces left by their last work. What tools do they use to do such delicate work? It's their tongues.

At this time, dandelions, wild roses, daisy flowers, etc. can be seen everywhere in the wild, and the flowers are full of busy bees, and the brindle bees are also among them. After carrying the nectar and pollen like bees, they go back in high spirits.

As soon as they return to their city, they immediately change their flight patterns, hovering very low, as if they have hesitated about the many similar-looking crypts, not knowing which is their real home. But it didn't take long for the brindle bees to recognize their marks, and they quickly and accurately burrowed in.

Every time the brindle bee comes back from collecting honey, it will first stuff its tail into the nest, brush off the pollen, and then turn around, and then burrow its head into the nest and sprinkle the nectar on the pollen, so as to store the fruits of labor. Although the nectar and pollen collected each time are very small, after many harvesting and transportation, the small nest has become very full.

Then the brindle bee began to make "dry food" one by one, and began to prepare food for its future children.

The brindle wasp kneades pollen and nectar into the shape of a pea: it has a sweet honey on the outside and a dry pollen on the inside, which is not sweet and has no taste. The nectar on the outside is the food of the early bees, and the pollen on the inside is the food of the later stages of the bees.

When the brindle wasp finishes making its food, it begins to lay eggs. Unlike other bees that seal up their nests after laying eggs, it continues to collect honey and take care of its babies.

The baby bees grew up under the careful care and care of their mother. When they pupate as cocoons, the brindle bees seal all the nests with mud. After it has done its job, it is time to rest.

If nothing happens, in just two months, the baby bees will be able to play among the flowers like their mothers.

However, the home of the brindle bee is not as comfortable as it seems, and there are many vicious robbers lurking around them. Among them is a mosquito that, though tiny, is a fierce enemy of mine bees.