Why is it that just a small worker ant can cause the entire ant colony to fall into chaos first, and then be completely led by the nose by the final balance?

This has to start with the special social form of ants.

Many people are influenced by blockbuster movies, games or novels, and think that ants are the same creatures as the Zerg in these literary works, radiated by the consciousness of one or more queens responsible for reproduction, that is, the queen ant, who controls every individual from top to bottom, and rules in the absolute sense of the word, and once this ruler dies, the whole group will become a plate of scattered sand.

This statement is completely false. Far from being a dictatorship, ants are a kind of "democratic" society akin to absolute communism.

In this society, there are no real rulers, no distinct classes and government institutions, only the fully equal individuals who make up the society, and the queen ant is only one of these individuals, although it is far more important than the others. These individuals have no concept of self, they are born with only a brainwashed collective consciousness of "fighting for the rise of the empire", they have no selfish desires, they do not grind foreign workers, they do not commit crimes, they do not even suspect each other, and they trust each other completely.

The most important characteristic of this communist society is that the individual and the collective have achieved complete dialectical unity.

On the one hand, the collective must unconditionally meet any individual demands. For example, if an ant sends a message "I'm hungry", other ants will immediately rush to spit out the food in their stomach for free and feed it mouth-to-mouth to ensure that it does not starve to death.

On the other hand, the individual must also be unconditionally subordinated to the will of the collective, and everything must be in the interests of the collective. For example, in times of famine, when all ants take collective responsibility, many individuals will come forward completely voluntarily and send a message of "please eat me", and let the other ants eat it up without changing their faces.

This system, which resembles the early utopian socialism, is placed in politics, i.e., absolute democracy when the whole nest needs to make decisions. To put it simply, each individual has the right to stand up and put forward his or her own opinion, and the collective must satisfy its opinion.

In the case of human beings, countless historical lessons have already told us that this social system is a complete failure. Because its biggest loophole is to go to extremes, unable to coordinate the relationship between selfish desires and collectives, on the one hand, unthinkingly and unconditionally satisfy individual consciousness, resulting in a lot of waste of resources, and finally let the whole society lose the support of resources into "co-tragedy", on the other hand, forcing people to completely give up their selfish desires, not recognizing individual value, resulting in all kinds of human tragedies of "whoever dares to oppose XXX will smash who's dog's head".

Everything is because people have selfish desires, not "rational people" in the absolute sense.

But on the ant's side, it is indeed a system that has been successfully implemented for tens of millions of years, and all this is based on the condition that ants have no selfish desires and are "rational people" in the absolute sense.

Since the individual is absolutely rational, its requirements must also be absolutely rational and will not destroy the foundation of the collective.

Therefore, under the condition that each individual is absolutely rational and will not lie, the entire ant nest is a unified life form, and its will is unified, but it is indeed formed by the aggregation and fusion of each individual's will. Ordinary individuals exist as cells of this particular creature.

Who has ever heard that cells in living organisms (except cancer cells, or good intentions do bad things) can destroy the interests of the organism themselves?

The reason why Zhongheng was able to successfully "fool" a large group of ants was precisely because he successfully took advantage of the fact that ants were absolutely rational to destroy the stability of the ant nest, and took advantage of the loophole that ants would not deceive to mix up an "irrational" virus, thus causing them to fall into a kind of collective madness.

If an ant discovers a risk factor and reports it to the nest, the information must be the real idea of the reporter on the premise that the ant will not deceive, and the other ants will inevitably believe it unconditionally and start to take emergency measures. As the news spread to each individual, the entire nest was mobilized.

But what if the news is wrong? For example, if the tree only shakes slightly, and at this time, some ants sense the danger factor, how can the whole nest of ants determine that it is not an earthquake that needs to be relocated without causing a fearless waste of resources?

It doesn't matter, if there are "rumor-mongers", there must be "rumor-refuting".

First of all, the premise of the disappearance of risk factors is that all ants, including the original mispositive information can be known, when it disappears, the knowing individual will come out to refute the rumor, this person who knows the truth and will not lie is even likely to be the original rumor-monger, the ants absolutely trust each other, but there is no social credibility personal credit and the like.

This is also the reason why the nest of ants that shake a little will initially run wildly, but as soon as the shaking stops, the riot will quickly subside. As soon as they receive the message that they are "safe", even the original rumor-mongers will immediately calm down.

But what if the rumormongers don't believe it?

Hehe, this situation does not exist in a normal ant nest, and if it exists, then there must be abnormal factors mixed in this nest, such as now.

The simple brains of ants are the same as those of the Trisolarans, they do not suspect that they have no critical thinking, and they always follow the information they come into contact with from their neighbors.

Similar to "three people become tigers".

In their opinion, if you have "refuted the rumors", the only reason why you are still "spreading rumors" is - I am wrong, and you are right.

As long as the yellow ants controlled by the final balance make the rumors spread faster than the rumors, soon the whole nest of ants will all become "rumor-mongers", and when false information spreads to every corner, there will be no "rumor-refuting", and a lie will become the truth if it is told a thousand times.

This method is not only the ultimate balance, but it is actually very common in some natural enemies of ants in nature. Some parasitic insects will use this fake pheromone to spread false information to destabilize the nest.

The most typical are some special ants, such as a kind of ant called the leaf-shaped spiny ant, which can secretly use the same pheromone to mix into the nest of other ants in large areas and kill their queens, so that the nests parasitized by them will serve them to death.

This method is used to catch yellow ants is tried and tested, busy in the morning and in the afternoon, the final Heng harvested more than 30 litters of yellow ants, almost from the orchard to the reservoir this distance, nearly half of the mountain of yellow ants have been caught.

Of course, this method also has certain limitations, after all, those who spread rumors must run faster than those who refute rumors. If the ant colony is too large and the speed of rumor spreading is limited, so that the rumor refutation information and the rumor spreading information are transmitted at the same speed, it will probably only maintain a chaotic state of countless ants running around, believing rumors for a while and refuting rumors for a while.

If the rumor-refuting information is faster than the rumor-mongering information, then the rumors of the final balance are like stones thrown into the sea, and they can't turn up a little wind and waves.

At present, with this method, ten ants can spread rumors at the same time, and the limit number of ants that can be controlled is about 3,000.

The weather became hot as the sun rose, and cooled again as it turned back, and in the evening, the whole earth was like a well-cooked steak, cracked with the evaporation of water under the sun, and emitted a misty white vapor under the moisture of a little more water after cooling.

Under the bloody sun, when darkness was about to envelop again, Ultimateum succeeded in controlling the third type of bug.

The golden-ringed wasp, a kind of poisonous bee that can make people swell and sore and bleed pus for half a month when stung, a group of poisonous bees that claim to be able to sting even a cow to death.

Bees and ants are both very similar insects. They are very closely related, taxonomically similar to humans and monkeys, belonging to the same primate and sharing a common ancestor.

The same ancestors brought similar genes and similar social methods, except that there is no "one nest of many queens" and the phenomenon of soldiers as professional soldiers, the social organization structure of bees is almost exactly the same as that of ants, and it is also a "communist society" formed by countless individuals.

This means that the final balance can control them in the same way, but it is more difficult because the mainstream communication method of bees is not only pheromones, but also dance.

"I didn't get enough jars today, and I didn't prepare them at home, so I took two back to defend myself first, and the rest were moved to the national highway first, and I will bring them back next time I have time."

Looking at the golden-ringed wasp swarm that had almost formed a black cloud under his control, Zhong Heng wiped the sweat from his head and smiled with satisfaction.

The ability to use it for a day in a row made Zhong Heng tired, more tired than staying up all night for two days in a row, he dragged his body, carried a bulging backpack, and sat on the old bicycle that was hot from the sun.