Chapter 2084

The most famous social insects on earth are, of course, ants and bees. In addition to them, some wasps and termites are also gregarious.

Many people think termites are also ants, but different colors? It's like the black ant, the red ant?

In fact, termites are "cockroaches" of Insecta and "Hymenoptera" of Insecta. The gap between the two is not too big, because in this way, compared with ants, termites and cockroaches are more closely related.

The environment of the earth is unique. Any strange creature in the universe can find similar "relatives" on the earth, and the Zerg are no exception.

There are, of course, subtle differences. For example, there are three characteristics of social insects on earth.

The first is flexibility. The nest can adapt to the changing environment at any time.

It may be the external environment, such as flash floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and so on. It may also be internal changes, such as the sudden death of the queen ant, the outbreak of ecological crisis in the nest, and so on.

However, a mature and complete nest will always have a way to deal with these situations. Their sociality makes up for the weakness of individual strength, and can avoid the environmental changes that are fatal to most insects.

The second is the robustness of the nest. Even if the individual fails, the whole nest still completes the task.

It is also an example of ants. They sometimes prey on some large insects as food, such as scorpions. Individual ants are not worth mentioning for scorpions. They can kill a large area at will.

However, as tens of thousands of ants swarmed up one after another, the Scorpion will eventually be bitten by the weak joint of the shell, and finally die of formic acid poisoning.

Some people may have seen ants crossing a river. They will form a "ant ball" to wrap the queen and eggs in the center. Outside, workers' bags form a protective layer. This kind of ant ball can cross rivers and rivers. It is more common in the seasonal flood areas of African grasslands.

The workers on the outer layer must be dead in the end, but the ants on the inner layer will be protected to keep the nest going.

This is that after the nest set a collective goal, the individual's life and death have been ignored, only for a goal of collective efforts.

The third point is the difference between the earth's social life and the alien Zerg.

Social insects on the earth have "personalities".

you can't as like as two peas in a nest or bee nest, though worker and worker bees are not even tools, they can actually be viewed under microscope, and if they take their genes, each is different.

Social insects on earth are thoughtful. They use pheromones and body movements to communicate, listen to commands, and act in concert.

The nest is the main body of their service. Every insect lives for it. The individual is not worth mentioning. The queen bee is replaceable because it is only a reproductive machine and an important part of the population.

However, these characteristics do not hold up on the alien Zerg, just like someone is bothered. Most of the worker bees in them are printed from the same mold. There is no difference between them. They are purely flesh and blood reproduction.

The insects from these "assembly lines" have the same appearance, smell and genes. They may not even have independent thoughts.

Some Zerg don't even have a brain. There is only one receiver in their skull. They may be ruled by a "nest thinking" through technology or mental ability. All they do is serve that will.

"There are three kinds of Zerg in negative space, which you can understand as locusts, bees and ants respectively." Su Ming put down the empty can in his hand and rolled it back and forth on the table, which attracted his cousin's eyes to turn around with it.

"Locust?" Dum repeated a concerned word: "I don't remember grasshoppers are social insects."

"In fact, this is called" stress type gregariousness ". Locusts are originally scattered insects, but when the environment is not suitable or the population density in a region is too high, their cyp305m2 gene will be activated, which makes them mutate into the ability to secrete pheromones, thus transforming into social form. The Asian migratory locust is the most typical example."

Su Ming explained that he could not help thinking about his past life, and he also wanted to laugh.

When I read novels on the Internet in my previous life, I loved reading history for some time. It was said that some people went back to ancient times and met with locust plague, so they gave advice to the emperor to let the common people eat locusts to kill the disaster.

He also said that locust plague was like a dark cloud. He took off his shoes and threw it into the air, which was the Grand Slam. The people were getting fat after eating meat.

With the protagonist's "clever plan", the ancient people put out the plague of locusts in a few days, and then the protagonist was rewarded by the emperor to be a senior official, marry several princesses, and go to the peak of life or something.

Every time he saw a similar plot, Su Ming would be poisoned to death, because swarms of locusts could not be eaten.

I don't know if anyone has noticed that sporadic grasshoppers look emerald green or a little yellow, but swarms of locusts are "blackened" because after they produce pheromones due to social interaction, the chemical environment in their bodies changes and the corresponding two substances are produced.Phenylacetonitrile and hydrocyanic acid are the reasons why locusts can't be eaten. The former only has a pungent smell, which makes birds and other natural enemies stop eating locusts. The latter is highly toxic, with a lethal dose of 0.4 mg / kg body weight.

Those ancient people who ate locusts in the novel may have been fat, but is that skin swelling caused by the destruction of blood circulation system after poisoning?

It's just that in the past, I can only remember. Su Ming himself has passed through. Maybe everyone in the universe of those ancient walkers is anti-virus max?

"Cough."

Su Ming and Qing raised his voice and threw the empty jar to his cousin to play. Wade immediately squatted on the ground like a cat and rolled the jar around with his hand. He continued to say to dum:

"the annihilated Zerg in negative space are actually like locusts' templates. They are originally spores from argorr, and they do not have any groups But when there are enough annihilation Zerg on a planet with limited space, they form nests, and annihilator, who picks up the cosmic control rods, becomes their leader and ruler

Dr. destruct put down his water bottle and held his arm. He was thinking, and then his voice came from under the iron mask:

"so the individuals in them are actually able to think and have independent consciousness, right?"

"Yes, annihilation Zerg is not the most dangerous of the three negative space Zerg, but it is indeed the most cunning. They have advanced technology, strong individual ability, massive biological warships, endless sources of arms, and a king of single universe's top strength."

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