The National Biological Laboratory in Beidu used the nutrient-robbing characteristics of insect trees to plant more than ten insect trees in a fully enclosed laboratory. Extremely fierce competition began among the insect trees. The distance between the two insect trees was too close, and the tree crowns were damaged.
The tentacles on the tentacles actually clashed, entangled and tore at each other, and eventually one side was defeated and fell down.
In just two days, half of the twelve insect trees died, and two more died on the third day.
The experimental team headed by Professor Qin thought that the remaining four insect trees would continue to compete. However, after several days of observation, they found that the competition between the insect trees actually stopped!
The experimental team immediately adjusted the experimental method and transplanted four insect trees together. The distance was close enough to cause the insect trees to "fight", but the four insect trees still lived in peace with each other.
The experimental team immediately arranged several other groups of control experiments, and found that after a period of competition, each group of experimental insect trees would stop competing when there were three to four trees left. Not only did the insect trees of the same group have no problem putting them together, but different insect trees also had no problem.
All the insect trees in the group are transplanted together, and there will be no abnormalities.
The reason is not difficult to guess - the insect tree has already accumulated enough needed nutrients, and there is no need to devour the same kind of nutrients!
The experiment did not end here, but continued in depth, torturing the insect tree by reducing the moisture, increasing the moisture, increasing the light, maintaining darkness, etc., in order to observe the condition of the insect tree.
It was found that an insect tree that has accumulated enough nutrients hardly needs to absorb nutrients from the outside world, and light has no effect on the insect tree. However, if the insect tree does not receive enough water, the number of insect eggs in the canopy will be reduced by 20%.
to forty.
This is good news, but one insect tree can produce more than a thousand insect eggs at most. Even if the output is reduced by half, there will still be five or six hundred eggs.
Unless there is a large-scale drought, the possibility of water shortage in the natural environment is extremely small. Therefore, such research results are simply useless and will not be of any help to the situation faced by mankind.
Of course, the experiment is not over yet. The laboratory began to use various methods to torture the insect trees, including but not limited to root digging, cutting off the roots, destroying the crown, cutting off the fleshy trunks from small to large, peeling off the epidermis in various areas, and infecting various animal and plant viruses.
, exposure to various chemical substances, etc.
In short, the laboratory used all imaginable methods on the insect tree, just to find a solution that can effectively kill the insect tree.
It was found that destroying the insect tree by physical means can only reduce the production of insect eggs. As long as the insect tree absorbs enough nutrients, even if the crown of the tree is removed alone, a certain number of insect eggs can be produced.
Only by destroying the tree crown can a large number of immature eggs be necrotic, but destruction must be carried out when the eggs are immature to be effective. If the eggs are close to maturity, then only complete destruction of the tree crown can terminate the development of many eggs.
development, otherwise some eggs will survive more or less.
Virus infection experiments have almost no effect. Viruses from the earth are either unable to infect or cannot invade the tree canopy after infection. It is not possible for viruses to kill insecticidal trees in the short term.
The exposure experiments with chemical substances are similar. The less toxic chemicals have no effect on insect trees, while the chemicals that do work are too toxic. If used on a large scale by various countries, more than half of the human race will die before the insect trees are extinct.
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In order to find out where the limits of the insect tree are, the laboratory even used radiation, a big killer, to irradiate the insect tree with various levels of rays and observe the changes of the insect tree in the radiation.
The results were gratifying. After several days of continuous irradiation, the insect tree quickly withered and died. However, the crown of the tree was still completely intact, but all the tentacles above shrank.
The insect eggs in the canopy are still active, and even if extremely strong radiation is used for a long time, the eggs will not be damaged at all.
This is not surprising at all. The radiation intensity in the universe is very high - the height of the space station is between 300 and 400 kilometers. This location is in low-Earth orbit and is within the protection range of the earth's magnetic field. The radiation intensity is not high.
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But that's not the case outside the Earth's magnetic field.
Asteroids fly in the starry sky for several months and receive very high radiation intensity. If the white egg shell has no radiation protection ability, how can it take root and sprout after falling on the earth?
Researchers immediately became very interested in egg shells. Through experiments, they found that the egg shell's radiation resistance is far beyond human imagination. Even if it is thrown into a nuclear reactor, there will not be any radiation inside the egg shell... Of course, this thing
It can only block radiation but not high temperature. If you throw it into a reactor, it will be turned into ashes by the high temperature in minutes.
The egg shell is just an unexpected harvest in the study of insect trees, and research on the insect tree itself is still continuing.
After exhausting all means, they still could not find an effective method to deal with the insect trees. The laboratory had to change its thinking and no longer deal with the insect trees, but instead targeted the insect eggs cultivated by the insect trees.
The insect eggs that have just escaped from the insect tree are just ordinary insect eggs except that they are larger in size. However, the hatching of these insect eggs does not require any specific environment, and the hatching speed is not slow. It takes about seven to ten days. The length of time depends on the outside world.
It depends on the environment. Even high temperature and arid deserts will not affect the hatching of insect eggs.
Fortunately, the newly hatched larvae are very fragile, and various insecticides can effectively kill the larvae at this stage. However, as long as you wait a few hours and the larvae's shells harden, the effectiveness of the insecticides will be greatly reduced.
Only highly toxic potions can have a certain effect.
In order to determine the larvae's resistance to poison, the laboratory even used nerve gas. Although the effect was very good, the toxicity of this thing was too high, and no one dared to use it indiscriminately on their own land.
The larvae are about as big as the belly of a finger, but don't underestimate these little things. They have a strong appetite and aggressiveness. Once they hatch successfully, they will immediately sweep around and eat all the animals they can find.
The insect tree robs the plants of nutrients, and the larvae eat all the nearby animals, which shows how domineering this thing is.
If they can't find enough food, these little guys will even kill each other and devour their brothers and sisters born together. The last remaining one or several are the most ferocious and powerful individuals.
At this time, the biochemical giant insect can probably grow to about thirty years old, and initially has the ability to travel far.
Due to size limitations, firearms can easily deal with larvae at this stage, but if the larvae can continue to grow and reach a body length of more than one meter, it will be difficult for ordinary firearms to penetrate the shell of the biochemical giant insect.
At this point, the laboratory's research on the biochemical giant insects came to an abrupt end. It was not that the laboratory did not want to continue the research, but that the biochemical giant insects had already possessed extremely strong attack power. The closed experimental cabin of the laboratory could not stop the destruction of the biochemical giant insects.
