NOVEL NEXT Chapter 43 Bee Swarm
The young worker ant was dragged out by the fourth child.
I saw that it was still lying down and not moving very much. Its two tentacles were more flexible than yesterday after eating the banyan tree blood, and they could wave freely.
Its abdomen was dyed with a layer of light green, and it was spreading to its hind feet and waist.
No other obvious changes can be seen for the time being.
As long as he's not dead.
Okay, Fourth Brother, drag it back!
Qin Niu did not experiment with other termites, but rewarded them with a piece of bear meat.
It felt like the eating habits of this group of termites were being disrupted by his master. Their favorite food was tree trunks, young leaves, and plant roots. Now we eat either bear meat or centipedes.
Qin Niu has only found out that feeding them bear blood and bear meat can produce powerful termites.
Feeding them centipedes can produce poisonous ants.
After feeding the bear meat, he communicated with the termites for a while, and his proficiency in insect language improved a bit.
Although the rise was a bit slow, he didn't care.
As he practices Changchun Gong, he can feel that his mental strength seems to have improved slightly. In the past, if I interacted with termites at close range for thirty or forty times, I would feel dizzy and my mental energy would be exhausted.
Now I have been able to communicate with them about forty or fifty times.
But the distance should not be too far, it is best to be able to watch them communicate. Because they are too far apart, the mental drain on each communication will increase significantly.
After feeling that it was almost done, Qin Niu put the basket on his back and began to wander around in the mountains.
He has two low-level contract talismans on his body, and he has studied the Green Devil's Bee Breeding Manual and learned a lot of very practical knowledge about bee control. He wants to see if he can find a suitable wild bee and then subdue it.
Based on his experience in controlling termites, basically all first-level insects are easy to control.
As long as they are promoted to the second level, the difficulty of conquering them will increase more than ten times.
If you want to tame wild bees, you must find a female bee that has never laid eggs.
As for whether to choose bees or wasps, or bumblebees or carpenter bees, he hasn't decided yet.
Be prepared to observe them first to understand their habits and characteristics before making a decision.
As he continued to explore deeper into the mountain, the ancient banyan tree came into view again. From a distance, it looked like a dense mountain forest.
A single tree forms a forest, which refers to the ancient trees that have lived for hundreds or thousands of years.
They have grown and expanded for at least hundreds of years, crushing all surrounding plants and becoming the overlord of that area.
Under its shadow, the plants under the trees either slowly wither or survive and survive.
In fact, the same goes for the human world and plants.
For example, the villagers in Shuangfeng Village and several surrounding villages are living in peace in the shadow of the Yan family.
The Yan family is the largest 'tree' in the nearby village.
It was broad daylight and the sun was shining brightly, so Qin Niu was not afraid of the ancient banyan tree.
Instead, observe it from a distance.
From a distance, nothing unusual can be detected.
As he got closer, he discovered that this ancient banyan tree was really smart. Plants adjacent to it are not affected at all.
This disguise is too clever.
People are not aware of the crisis at all, and when they discover it, they are already within the scope of its canopy.
Because he had the experience of being cheated once, Qin Niu stopped forty or fifty meters away.
From a distance, you can see some weeds and small trees growing under the banyan tree.
As for the others, you can't see them at all.
Only when you go in can you see its thick tree body.
Buzz~!
Qin Niu heard the sound of insects flapping their wings in his ears, like bees.
Looking around, it turned out to be a bee.
It is collecting pollen on an unknown short plant.
That plant has small white flowers the size of rice grains. Except for bees, humans would probably not notice it even if they passed by.
Nature is so magical. No matter how small it is, as long as it exists, it will be noticed by other creatures.
The stem of that plant is too thin.
When a bee lands on its flower to collect pollen, it cannot bear the weight of the bee and the branch is immediately bent. The bee had to work hard to flap its wings and stabilize its body.
Its pollen collection technology is quite sophisticated and it quickly completed this difficult pollen collection.
You can see that there is already a lot of pollen on its two hind legs.
After it collected pollen from a small white flower, it did not fly away, but continued to collect the next one.
Because it needs to stabilize its body and keep flapping its wings, the buzzing sound is extremely clear.
Qin Niu approached it quietly and carefully observed the bee collecting pollen.
After it stopped on the flower, it tried hard to collect pollen on the flower with its three pairs of legs. It moves very dexterously. It first uses its upper jaw and front feet to scrape off the pollen.
Then catch it with your midfoot.
Immediately afterwards, the mid-foot brushes off the pollen stuck to the villi on the chest and abdomen and passes it to the hind feet.
Then the two hind legs work alternately.
Its hind legs are very wide. According to the Green Devil Bee Breeding Manual, there are pollen rakes, pollen tongs, and pollen baskets on the hind legs.
The hind feet first use a pollen rake to catch the pollen transferred from the mid-foot, and then use pollen pliers to squeeze the pollen on the rake, squeezing the pollen that was originally like loose sand into pollen balls, and finally push them into the pollen basket of the hind feet. .
The entire process of collecting pollen is very ingenious and highly technical.
Qin Niu watched with gusto.
I saw that its hind feet were filled with light yellow pollen balls, which looked like two large pieces of pollen stuck to its hind feet.
Buzz!
It flapped its wings and left.
Are you going back to the nest?
Qin Niu quickly followed.
After chasing it for less than twenty meters, Qin Niu immediately stopped.
The ancient banyan tree is just ahead. If you rush in, you will be trapped inside immediately.
Could this bee be a bait sent by the ancient banyan tree?
Qin Niu soon realized that he was overthinking it. Almost right next to the ancient banyan tree, there was a fairly tall pine tree with a huge beehive hanging on it.
Judging by the situation, there must be thousands of bees living inside.
You can see bees flying in and out, making it a busy scene.
Bees and ants are very hardworking little insects.
They are united, hard-working, and are social creatures.
If we dig down its nest, we will definitely get a lot of honey.
Qin Niu licked his lips.
Some people keep bees in the village and can collect honey about two to three times a year. The price is quite expensive, costing almost three cents per pound. You know, a bucket of bees can harvest hundreds of kilograms of mature honey in a year.
Keeping a box of bees can increase your income by more than 300 yuan a year.
It’s just that not many people buy honey. Villagers with slightly better families may buy about two kilograms a year. Only during holidays are I willing to take it out and use it.
Small wealthy families like Wang Furen and Xu Zhenchang are considered the main consumers.
They can eat as much as they want without caring about the small amount of money.
As for the Yan family, they won't buy it because they have their own beekeepers who are responsible for raising bees and harvesting honey.
The Yan family will also have some needs for gifts, and ordinary honey will definitely not be able to be given away.
The hired beekeepers will be asked to collect the royal jelly and then keep it to give to the powerful people in the city.
Yan Ruhai, who is directly related to his children, wife, etc., should also be eating royal jelly, not ordinary honey.
Qin Niu stared at the beehive on the tree, carefully recalling some of the beekeeping techniques taught in the Green Devil's Bee Breeding Manual.
If you want to conquer it, you must only conquer the new queen bee.