Chapter 10: Capture Methods (Part I)

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"Go back to your lair." Final Heng gave the order with his mind.

The reason why the price of yellow ant has been high in the circle of insect friends is not only because it is difficult to survive in the city, but also because it is only distributed in sparsely populated wilderness or remote countryside, so that ordinary insect friends or insect traders can rarely see it once, let alone catch it. Besides, in terms of capture, it is not easy to get a litter of yellow lynx ants with queens that can reproduce normally.

Normally inhabited by trees, these ants collect leaves, roll them up with silk secreted by larvae, and stack them layer by layer until they finally build a huge honeycomb-like leaf pack hanging from the branches.

The ant bag made of leaves is hidden between the dense branches and leaves, it is difficult to find, even if it is found by luck, how to go up the tree will become a difficult problem for most people, after all, not all places in the wild can go, and not all trees can climb, if the yellow lynx ants are distributed in the steep slopes, ravines, ridges and other places that people can not walk, the ant bag is built at a height of more than three or four meters, and it can only be scratched blind.

Even if you are lucky enough to come across an ant pack built within reach, it doesn't mean you'll be able to make a profit, because it's probably just a bridgehead they've built on a low place, just a rudder to accommodate the extra population, ah no, the rudder of the ant's mouth, similar to the satellite towns around big cities.

In the case of a rudder, the queen ant is usually not inside, but in a hollow tree hole or a taller pack. Although the colony without the queen ant will not collapse like the Zerg that has lost its brainworm and dominates, it is just a pool of stagnant water if it loses its reproductive ability, and without the replenishment of fresh blood, it will die out like an avalanche after the life span of the worker ants is exhausted for a few months.

A nest of ants without a queen ant has no feeding value.

What's more, even if the ant colony behind the belt is caught, the loss and adaptation problems are enough to cause headaches. The possible loss in the process of capture is not counted, the harsh living conditions of this ant need arboreal will also bring the problem of whether it can adapt to artificial breeding, in case the environment is not well mastered, resulting in the sudden death or sterility of the queen ant, and the mass death of worker ant larvae, it is also a hard struggle for decades, and a night back to before liberation.

The combination of various difficult factors, coupled with the fact that ants cannot be artificially reproduced, is the reason for its high price, a mature, steadily growing colony of hundreds of yellow ants can be sold for hundreds, and a new queen who has just mated is also dozens.

But these problems are not a problem for the current final balance.

I saw that the controlled worker ant followed the pheromone path left behind when it came, and quickly returned to its nest, a lychee tree 20 meters away and 5 meters high.

Now that the problem of finding the ant nest is solved, the next step is how to get the ant bag off. Whether or not he could climb the tree, whether the keeper of the orchard would climb the tree and catch ants for him, even if it was okay, he didn't plan to do it.

These are all savage stupid methods, and next, it is his superpowers, and even more so his entomological knowledge.

"I'm going to let you climb into my pockets on your own."

After controlling the worker ants to drill into the nest, the final balance switched to one-to-one manipulation, turning on the sensory acquisition function, and in an instant, a large amount of information poured into his mind.

The inside of the ant nest is like a three-dimensional metropolis, hundreds of ants are going in and out of the left and right, the river is endless, no matter which direction, it is an orange torrent. They move side by side on roads, stairs, and houses made of dead leaves, touching and communicating with each other with pheromones secreted by their antennae, and occasionally a small colony of ants can be seen dragging the remains of prey caught from the outside. If the ant nest is scaled up, the density and complexity of the movement of people in the entire three-dimensional city even exceed the rush hour of commuting in one of the world's largest international metropolises, such as New York and Tokyo.

Nature's miraculous ability to create creatures is reflected here, from a one-sided area, the ants move in a chaotic manner, but on the whole, the whole ant nest is like a sophisticated instrument, and each ant is a part of it. None of the ants are idle, some of them are carrying food, some are mending or expanding their nests, and some are taking care of the queen, eggs or larvae, each performing their own duties, during which there are no uncoordinated accidents such as stampedes or traffic jams, and even if there are signs of cracking in this leaf city, there will soon be worker ants who will quickly repair it uninvited.

Looking at this scene up close, although it is in the microcosm, its magnificence is far greater than that of the macrocosm, and finally Heng really has the idea that those directors who make insect documentaries can die of shame, and they shoot something lower than what he sees now.

After the sigh, the business began, and finally Heng controlled the worker ant to raise its antennae and accept the information that the ant nest was just a stench and smell of formic acid for humans.

He could understand the ant's senses, and he soon learned the general information of this nest: not counting the eggs and larvae, this is an ant nest with a total population of about 200, and this one nest is the only one, but it is very rare to have two queens.

This surprised Zhong Heng, although it is common for ants to have multiple queens in one nest, but among yellow ants, this phenomenon is rare, and it is usually "only common hardships and hardships but not equal wealth".

At first, a few new queens may gather together to raise eggs and larvae, but once the colony grows, a brutal competition begins, and the queens fight each other until the last winner remains. The reason why the phenomenon of one nest and two queens exists is probably that the two queens separated very early, and they were far away from each other and did not fall into a fight, but the descendants they gave birth to recognized each other because they grew up together, mixed together and had common pheromones. After they grew together and turned into adults, they gradually repaired the nest where the two queens were located.

Anyway, this time it's a big deal!

Secretly happy, the final balance controlled the worker ants to start the next unbelievable action, not to control this mixed in discordant factor to play a "hostage-taking", but to raise the two tentacles on the head, and sent such a message:

"Disaster is coming, the nest is in danger, please move quickly, please move quickly."

In an instant, the ant colony exploded, and with the worker ants controlled by the final balance as the center, a large number of yellow ants put down the work in their hands and ran in all directions. This phenomenon spreads rapidly like ripples from pebbles thrown into a calm lake.

Are they scared? No, they just went to pack up their belongings and prepare to move, and countless yellow lynx ants picked up eggs and larvae, lifted fat prey, and swarmed around the fat queen, and rushed to the exit of the nest, completely nostalgic for the home that had been painstakingly run for more than half a year.

Zhong Heng controlled the worker ant to run back and forth in the nest, ensuring that the information would be transmitted to every corner, and soon, the entire nest was "rumor-mongering" by his discordant factor, and he didn't care whether the information was true or false, and rushed to the exit of the ant bag.

By the time the nest was almost messed up, and most of the ants had run out of the ant bag, Zhong Heng estimated that it was time for the rumors to end here, otherwise it would be difficult to reintegrate the troops if the ants ran away later.

He controlled the worker ants to escape from the nest, and posted another rumor in the colony that had already moved out, mostly whirling around the branches of the lychee trees:

"Safe area has been found, the route to it is ......"

It is the pheromone path left by the worker ant returning to the nest, and at the end of this path, on the barbed wire fence of the orchard, the end of the path has long been hung by the final balance.

An empty 500ml bottle of Coke, and it won't be long before a large number of yellow lynx ants will automatically drill into this trap prepared for them under the leadership of the worker ants controlled by the final balance, the "brick house called beast" in this ant colony.

"It's really you, I didn't expect that the worm can be controlled like this!" On the side, Xiao Qian gave a thumbs up to Final Heng.

"That's, don't forget that I was a man who scored more than 90 points in the graduate school entrance examination in a professional class!" Zhong Heng boasted, and at the same time estimated in his heart that according to the speed at which the ant colony gathered, in less than half an hour, a litter of precious large groups of yellow lynx ants would start one by one.

Seeing that the ant colony over there was gradually gathering under the offensive of continuous rumors, Zhong Heng gave the worker ant an order to "lead the ant colony to advance along the designated road" and revoked control over it.

He's starting to look for the next unlucky guy with a lone nest.