"It's hard to say." Professor Qin's expression was gloomy, "We know too little about giant ants."
"Then what should we do, watch it starve to death?" Xu Jiaye's tone suddenly became extremely harsh, and his eyes shone with dissatisfaction.
"The safest way is to simulate the natural environment for it, let it lay eggs and hatch normally, cultivate a few worker ants, feed them directly, and then let the worker ants feed the queen." Professor Qin said, "This is the safest and safest way.
A safe solution.”
"Are you sure?" Xu Jiaye asked worriedly, "Mr. Qin, I don't need to tell you how important this queen ant is. This matter has alarmed the northern capital. If something goes wrong, neither you nor I can bear the responsibility!"
"We are very sure." Professor Qin said, "The first batch of eggs laid by the queen will not be very large. We plan to take away the excess eggs and leave only a few for her. We will use resources intensively to ensure that she breeds a few worker ants first.
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"This is a way." Xu Jiaye nodded, "Mr. Qin, this matter is very important. I will stay here for the next few days, waiting for your good news!"
"no problem!"
"Also, can I take a look at it? I have to report the situation to Beidu later. It's best to take two more photos."
Professor Qin shook his head slowly but firmly: "The queen ant is now in a simulated underground environment, and the light may cause it to be alert."
"What about daytime? What about daytime tomorrow!" Xu Jiaye asked unwillingly.
"It's dark underground even during the day, what do you think?" Professor Qin replied with a soft nail, which made Xu Jiaye lose his temper at all.
This queen ant is currently a treasure in the eyes of Beidu's senior officials. Anyone who dares to take advantage of her and influence the plans formulated by Beidu will definitely not end well.
Ye Han had no idea what was happening in the institute. When he got up the next day, he entered the ant-occupied area as usual and continued to collect raw materials for the train factory. However, every time he went back and forth, he would stare at the institute with resentful eyes.
The institute was so tight on the outside that all research stopped and all limited resources were concentrated on the queen ant. The good researcher actually gave it a nice name: Yiyi!
There is no way to verify who actually came up with this name. Most people believe that Yiyi is a homophone for ant. It was only because the name was called too many times that the pronunciation went wrong, so it became Yiyi.
So Yiyi unknowingly became the official code name of the ant queen, and it was even openly written into the research institute's documents and reports to the heavens.
Yiyi laid a total of more than twenty ant eggs the size of goose eggs, but Professor Qin took away more than half of them, leaving only seven for her.
Perhaps because the young Yiyi was inexperienced, or perhaps because the loss of six legs made it feel more threatened, three greedy young soldier ants were actually cultivated from seven ant eggs!
Fortunately, the researchers discovered the abnormality of these three young ants and intervened in time, removing the young soldier ants from the "ant nest", leaving only the worker ants with Yiyi.
Yiyi, who had all six of her legs amputated at a high position, is still physically and mentally disabled. With the careful help of researchers, she struggled to feed her four offspring. The four young worker ants gradually grew, and in just one week, their body length doubled.
The research team originally thought that worker ants must grow up before they can leave the nest to hunt for food, but when the young worker ants were just about the size of a palm, they showed a desire to leave the nest for food.
Professor Qin adjusted the breeding plan in time and tried to put some ant meat into the ant nest. As a result, the four young worker ants did not hesitate to drag the ant meat back to the nest, tear the meat into pieces and feed it to the queen ant.
Seemingly pitiful, the disabled queen ant Yiyi finally had a happy day. With enough meat, Yiyi recovered quickly and laid dozens of ant eggs continuously in a few days.
Professor Qin and his research team immediately intervened, carefully taking care of the second batch of ant eggs, hatching and raising the second batch of worker ants.
The research team mastered a large amount of first-hand information during the two egg-laying and child-rearing processes of the queen ant, and their understanding of giant ants has rapidly improved. The research team carefully used pheromones to influence the hatching of ant eggs, giving Yiyi a very powerful ant colony and worker ants.
The illusion of large numbers confuses Yiyi in order to control the size of the ant colony.
Unexpectedly, this move would accidentally breed a group of flying ants!
The news quickly spread throughout the research team. The first reaction of everyone who heard the news was disbelief, the second reaction was that it was impossible, and the third reaction was that you lied to me.
However, when the facts were presented before their eyes, the entire research team instantly became excited.
What is most important in an ant colony?
Queen ant!
What is the core of an ant colony?
Still the queen ant!
Where do ant colonies come from?
Still the queen ant!
If you control the queen, you control the ant colony, and the male and female flying ants with wings are the key to the emergence of the queen!
This group of flying ants immediately received the best care. A group of researchers stayed in the "ant nest" twenty-four hours a day, forgetting all sleep and food. They wished they could learn the seventy-two transformations and transform into giant ants on the spot, drilling holes with the ants to look for food and take care of them.
Queen ant.
Flying ants belong to an aristocratic class that cannot be carried on the shoulders or lifted by the hands, and must be fed by worker ants. However, there is a severe shortage of worker ants in the institute's mini ant nest. Under normal conditions, dozens of worker ants will never be able to feed dozens of flying ants.
Fortunately, there are researchers who put in the bait in time, so the worker ants don't have to spend a lot of time out looking for food. They can just crawl out of the hole and carry a lot of food back to the ant nest. All the time saved can be used to take care of the delicate flying ants. Finally, they can barely do it.
Feed the hungry flying ants.
The competition within the flying ants is very fierce. In less than half a month, there are only about ten flying ants left out of dozens, and the rest are eliminated in the process of growth.
Perhaps the simpler organisms grow faster, but in just a month ago, the nine male ants have grown to more than two meters long, and the average body length of the six female ants is close to three meters, which is almost as long as the queen ant Yiyi.
Professor Qin was so anxious that he almost used hormones to stimulate the flying ants to mature rapidly. He finally endured it for forty days before a dozen giant ants finally crawled out of the nest.
The research team simply did not dare to let them go to the sky, so they simply acted as matchmakers to match up the flying ants, locking them together in pairs, and after mating, they would alternate grooms for the princesses.
For some reason, Professor Qin suddenly felt that he was just a pimp, pimping bugs.
A few hours later, the research team obtained six quasi-winged queen ants. The news spread to Beidu, and the top management of Beidu instantly became excited.
When there is only one queen in Yiyi, it is an empty statement that mastering the queen is equivalent to mastering the ant colony, because as soon as Yiyi has a problem, the ant colony will immediately lose its foundation.
Having these six queen ants is equivalent to locking in six insurances for the pest control plan. You don't have to be timid just because you only have one queen in your hand.
Beidou City immediately issued an emergency instruction, requiring the institute to take full care of the six new ant queens. At the same time, the Giant Insect Control Center expanded and established the Giant Ant Research Institute based on the personnel of the institute. The main institute is responsible for administrative affairs and does not conduct any research.
The research and cultivation of giant ants; the institute has seven branches, each branch is responsible for the cultivation and research of a queen ant, and cultivates ant colonies on a small scale, laying the foundation for the insect control program.
