The entire cave is about the size of a football field, and there are thousands of huge white ant eggs piled inside.
These ant eggs have a crystal clear appearance and look like grains of rice.
Saying it is a grain of rice is just a metaphor. In fact, the eggs of this prehistoric giant ant are very huge, thousands of times larger than the eggs of earth ants!
To humans, these giant ant eggs as big as millstones are as shocking as dinosaur eggs. Even Lin Shuhang, who is over 12 meters tall, was shocked by their size when faced with these giant ant eggs.
"Damn, what is this place?"
Looking at the huge ant eggs all over the ground, Lin Shuhang was a little confused. His understanding of ants was very limited. Before he became a prehistoric Titan, he had always lived in the urban forest made of steel and concrete. This was the first time he saw it.
This kind of thing is very shocking to my heart.
"This seems to be a nursery for ants!"
"What you said upstairs is correct. This is indeed the nursery of ants. Look at those white rice-like things on the ground, those are ant eggs!"
"Ant eggs?" Lin Shuhang asked in surprise: "Are ants egg organisms?"
Just this sentence exposed Lin Shuhang's IQ, and the audience outside the venue turned on the barrage mode.
Barrage after barrage popped up from the screen, bombarding Lin Shuhang's eyes like bombs.
"Oh my god, host, are you from the city? How can you say such ridiculous things?"
“I didn’t know that ants are egg-eating creatures? I’m so surprised!”
"It seems that the anchor knows very little about ants!"
Lin Shuhang told the truth: "Well... yes, the anchor does not know much about ants. If I hadn't seen these ant eggs with my own eyes, I would have thought they were viviparous."
"No one has this kind of IQ and knowledge. Cover your face, cover your face..."
"Fellow Taoists, are there any people involved in the field of biology in this live broadcast room? Come out and educate the host about ants."
"Yes, come out and popularize knowledge about ants for the host!"
Lin Shuhang said: "Well...it's not necessary, right?"
Netizens responded one after another: "Why is it not necessary? What's your situation now? Don't you have some ideas in your mind?"
"Yes, yes, as the saying goes, know yourself and the enemy and you will never be in danger of a hundred battles. If you want to defeat the enemy, you must first understand the enemy. If you don't understand the living habits of this creature, it will be difficult for you to adapt when you encounter danger!"
Lin Shuhang thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case. If you didn't understand the living habits of creatures like ants, you would encounter many difficulties.
At this time, a netizen volunteered to stand up: "Hello anchor, I am a teacher who teaches biology at school. Although my personal ability is not very high, it is not a big deal to simply popularize the knowledge of ants to the anchor.
No problem, let’s do it this way, let me teach you a lesson and popularize the knowledge about ants.”
"Anchor, I still say the same old saying, know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be in danger. If you want to defeat these ants, you must first understand these ants."
"Don't worry, old man, the anchor will remember it carefully."
In this way, Lin Shuhang, a human biology teacher and anchor, started a special remote teaching in this prehistoric ant nest more than 100 meters underground.
Lin Shuhang felt like he was back in his student days.
At that time, the teacher was spitting at the classmates on the podium, while he was lazily lying on the desk, either sleeping soundly, looking down at pornographic novels, or exchanging small notes with his classmates.
Girls write love letters.
But at this time, everything has changed. At this time, Lin Shuhang was really listening to the teacher's explanation attentively.
After some explanations from the biology teacher, Lin Shuhang finally learned some relevant knowledge about ants.
Ants are the largest group of life on earth, except for bacteria and microorganisms. Their reproduction process is divided into three parts: mating, laying eggs, and dividing nests.
When the number of ants in a nest reaches a certain level, for example, the ant nest can no longer provide enough living space and resources for its subjects, the queen ant will make the decision to separate the family and breed in advance the fertile offspring.
male ants and female ants.
When the time is right, these fertile female ants will fly out of the mother nest, mate with male ants, build their own nests in the outside world, and begin to reproduce offspring, becoming a new ant family.
Ants are insects that undergo complete metamorphosis. Complete metamorphosis refers to the process of physical changes that an ant undergoes from egg to adult through the larvae stage and the pupa stage.
Male ants have a limited lifespan and will die soon after mating with female ants, leaving only the "widow", the new queen, living a lonely life alone.
After the new ant queen becomes pregnant, she will take off her wings and choose a suitable soil quality and location underground to build a new nest.
The new queen ant is "alone" and her strength is very limited. She can only temporarily build a small underground room as her shelter.
When the ant eggs in the body mature, the queen begins to lay eggs. When the eggs hatch and grow into larvae, the queen begins her life's work.
Just like a human mother, the queen will feed her first babies tirelessly, mouth to mouth, until the first babies grow up and become adults capable of living independently.
When the first batch of children grow up, they will dig holes leading to the outside world to search for food, and then expand the area of the nest to provide adequate housing for more and more family members.
From then on, the queen ant, who had suffered hardships and hardships, could sit back and enjoy her happiness, and the worker ants would feed her back.
The work of raising young ants and feeding the queen is undertaken by the worker ants, but for the development and growth of the race, the queen must continue to mate, fertilize and lay eggs tirelessly like a machine, in order to reproduce and grow her own ant family.
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According to incomplete human statistics, there are more than 11,700 species of ants on the earth!
There are so many ant species, and their ant nest forms are also very strange and different. This is why Lin Shuhang called on humans around the world to provide a large number of ant nest structure diagrams in order to escape from the underground ant nest.
Most species of ants build their nests underground.
Their underground nests are dug with tunnels, cells and shelters. The soil and stones excavated when digging the ant nest will be piled up near the entrance to form a small mound to protect the nest.
Lin Shuhang was dragged into the ant nest by giant ants before. The huge volcano-like mound he saw was the barrier used by these prehistoric giant ants to resist floods and invasion of natural enemies.
There are also some ants that use plant leaves, stems, petioles and other materials to build honeycomb-like nests on trees or among rocks.
There are also ants that live in dead wood in forest areas. What is even more special is that some species of ants will build their nests next to the nests of other species of ants, or even within the nests of other ants.
This kind of ant nest is called a mixed ant nest. It is actually a symbiosis of heterogeneous species, and there will be no conflict between the two races of ants.
In addition, the number of ants in an ant nest is also different. Some ant nests have the smallest group with only a few dozen or nearly a hundred ants, while there are also ant nests with thousands of ants, and large ant nests can contain tens of thousands of ants.
Even more.
For example, the prehistoric ant nest that Lin Shuhang is currently in is home to millions of prehistoric giant ants. It is simply a huge underground kingdom.