67. Crazy invasive species (10)

The affected area is a botanical park with a large area and complete infrastructure and recreational facilities, rich in flowers and trees, a wide variety of vegetation, and beautiful scenery, which the local urban development department and developers originally planned to turn into a new urban landmark and tourist attraction.

Due to the publicity in place, the park attracted a large number of citizens and tourists from other places in the early days of its opening, who came here to visit, take pictures and check in, and indeed brought a lot of attention and traffic as the planners expected.

But the good times did not last long, less than three months after its opening, there were frequent reports of park visitors being injured and hospitalized, which attracted many people's attention in the news media and on the Internet, and the families of the injured and hospitalized people also asked the relevant persons in charge of the relevant departments to give explanations and give compensation.

The relevant responsible departments had to suspend the opening of the park, start to inspect and rectify the internal environment of the park, and promised to give reasonable compensation to injured tourists once the situation is verified.

However, I don't know if I don't know this, but after checking it, I found that there is indeed a major problem - there are many traces of red fire ants in the park's grasslands, green belts, and even woods, especially the former, almost the entire grassland is a colony of red fire ants.

The grassland is almost full of small soil bags that have just been uplifted, and the surface soil particles are fine and uniform, indicating that it is a newly built ant nest, and the form is not obvious, so it has not been discovered by the greening managers of the park.

After careful inspection, there are many ant nests, and there are also an unknown number of female winged breeding ants who have completed the ant life at high altitude, flying to other places to build nests and produce offspring, so that the red fire ant population continues to expand outward, which is very tricky to deal with.

"Wow, this place is really nice! The view is so nice. "When I saw the destination of the mission, the players couldn't help but be amazed.

It is located in the south of the river, the climate is warm and humid, and the evergreen broad-leaved forests are mostly distributed, but also mixed with deciduous broad-leaved forests, and the forest vegetation is rich in variety and biodiversity.

The trees, flowers, and turf in the park are basically purchased from all over the surrounding area, and the different shades of greenery are full of purple and red, and the same vitality is indeed a botanical garden with pleasant scenery.

However, after many inspections, it was found that the problem was in the purchased flowers and trees and green turf.

It is the undetected red fire ants carried in the soil that have been moved here with human activities, and have not been discovered by anyone, and there are no other natural predators, they quickly adapt to the new environment and begin to reproduce and expand rapidly.

It wasn't until the wounding incident occurred and the investigation of the closure of the park began that their existence was discovered.

"It's a big project." Looking at the newly built red fire ant nests scattered all over the grass and woods, the players couldn't help but feel numb in their scalps.

This is different from the previous situation when the anthills were tall and mature, and the ant colonies were concentrated, and they could concentrate their forces to break them one by one, but now the ant colonies are more scattered and divide their own territory. Although it seems easier to "one nest" of such a nest with a small number of ants, it is easy to step on other nests and attract the red fire ant colony to attack it.

"Hi there!" While the players were thinking about a safer countermeasure, three strangers with backpacks approached and took the initiative to greet everyone.

"Hello, what is this?" Dong Mingzhe wondered in his heart, the park has been closed, why are there other people coming in? It doesn't look like a gardener or a park manager.

"Ah, a few of us are here to take pictures, the scenery here is beautiful, we like it very much." A young man in red wearing a peaked cap shook the camera in his hand, "Are you too?" ā€

"We're not, but isn't this a closed park? Can you still come in? ā€

Lao Tian looked at the heavy backpacks on their backs, more like they came out for a picnic with their equipment.

"Hey, this is not sneaking in, the scenery here is so beautiful, and it is convenient to take pictures with fewer people." Blinking at Lao Tian, the three teenagers turned around and prepared to continue walking inside.

"Wait," Lao Tian stopped them at Song Yuanze's behest, "Do you know why this place is closed?" You're not afraid? ā€

"Hey, big brother, I'm not afraid to tell you, we're here to explore, what are you afraid of, aren't you just bitten by bugs, where are there no bugs? Rest assured, we're carrying anthelmintic medicine. ā€

Sure enough, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers and comes in search of excitement. However, it is also true that the injured tourist was stung by red fire ants, as he said.

"Have you heard of red fire ants? Those tourists who were taken to the hospital for treatment have now been investigated clearly, and they were bitten by red fire ants. The situation is severe and can lead to anaphylactic shock or even death, are you sure you want to go in? ā€

Lao Tian really wanted to give these little brothers in front of him a social beating.

It's really disobedient.

"So what are you doing here? Aren't you afraid? ā€

The young man looked the same, we all had the same look, why did you say my expression.

Lao Tian just wanted to continue his education, and when he heard the boss calling him, he waved his hand and asked the young man to leave here quickly.

"It's not safe here, you guys are obedient and get out quickly."

said that he quickly ran to his own boss.

"What's going on?"

Song Yuanze spoke.

"Boss, the three little ghosts are here to find excitement, and they are very bold when they know that there is a problem." Lao Tian squeezed his fist, which was a little itchy.

If it was his younger brother, he would not politely let them feel the love from his brother.

There is no consciousness at all to stay away from danger.

"Keep an eye on it, since they're interested here, they can't stop it if they drive it away once and the next time. We'd better get the goal out of the way earlier. ā€

After Song Yuanze finished speaking, he walked to the player's temporary meeting group and continued the meeting.

"According to the information just obtained, the red fire ants in this park cover a large area, accounting for more than half, and the basic thing that has not encroached is the infrastructure and exhibition hall in the center of the park, but let's not forget that red fire ants will destroy underground communications, electricity, etc., we have to act quickly and try to eliminate them before they cause more damage."

Dong Mingzhe looked at the group representatives. "Do you have any good ideas for starting with the badly damaged meadows or cleaning up the surrounding scattered areas?"

"I think the grass is cleared first, the ant nests are concentrated here, and the big heads are taken up, and the rest is a piece of cake."

Yang Qing expressed his position, and continued: "The question is how we should cooperate so that we can avoid other ant nests and not step on them, which will not affect the progress of the mission." ā€

It's not that I haven't thought of other methods, such as medication, such as fire attack, such as technical prevention and control.

But these methods are effective, but there are also drawbacks, even if the dosage of medication is controlled, it will also affect the survival of local ants to a certain extent, fire attack is the last policy, after all, fire can burn ants, can also burn a park, destroy a woodland, the cost is too great. However, for the current situation, the effect of technical prevention and control is too slow.

Tang Qinqin wandered around boredly with obsidian.

She was also invited to the Impromptu Player Meeting, but she declined.

"Little stone, is there any way you can catch them all?"

"Why don't we just bite the bullet and ask for more blessings?"

While thinking wildly, he walked towards the bridge in the middle of the lake in the park.

From here, you can see other players not far away, and you are not afraid of being left behind.

"What a beautiful fish." Tang Qinqin admired.

In the lake under the bridge, many red, yellow, white or two colors of koi are swimming, fluttering, very lively.

"Click." There was a strange sound, and Tang Qinqin turned his head vigilantly.

"Ah, I'm sorry, little sister, I took a picture of you without your consent, it was so beautiful just now, I couldn't help it......"

One of the three teenagers I had just met, a boy in a white T-shirt and glasses was caught by Tang Qinqin and blushed.

It was rare to see such a cute and shy teenager, Tang Qinqin softened his heart, and he didn't mind the offense just now, so he only took two steps forward and asked him, "Can I take a look?" ā€

"Well, give ......"

Tang Qinqin took it.

I have to say that the angle and timing of this photo are good, just to capture the appearance of her just leaning over to look at the koi in the lake and slightly amazed, Tang Qinqin in the lens, long hair slightly raised, soft side face lines, the atmosphere of the whole person is very quiet and gentle.

"Okay, it's a good shot." After Tang Qinqin saw the photo, he handed the camera back to him.

Tang Qinqin: o(≧v≦)o is good-looking. Satisfied.

"Ah, young lady, may I ask, is this your pet?"