I Am the Swarm

During this time, the mother's nest received a large amount of high-quality protein supplements and started working at full capacity. Every day is full of tasks without affecting yourself.

Except for a small number of soldier ants that filled the vacancies of the dead, all the eggs produced were the eggs of worker ants.

This war in which the two sides dispatched a total of over 10,000 troops made Rowan understand the combination of arms of the Hive for a while in the future.

Under his command that surpassed the ant's unknown levels, most of the battlefield was confined to narrow areas, such as underground passages, such as the entrance of the ant nest.

This resulted in the fact that the two sides actually did not have many troops in contact at the same time. Except for the unexpected number of soldiers needed to encircle the circle at the entrance of the ant nest, there were not too many soldiers in other places.

These consuming machines do nothing but fights. If there are too many hatches during the war, once the war is over, there are still too many left. To reduce food loss, they can only be recycled.

Therefore, when only a few hundred ants are enough to cope with the current situation, Rowan will not rashly hatch more soldier ants.

Compared with soldier ants, the roles of worker ants are more comprehensive and diverse.

First of all, it acts as an auxiliary protection for the arthropods and backs of the soldier ants in wartime.

After the contact battle, you can also bite and pull the enemy unit, fix it, and wait for the soldier ants to come and execute it.

When facing a large-scale enemy army, you can also spray formic acid solution to blind the opponent.

After the war, you can also act as a transport team, clean up the battlefield, and collect loot.

It can also take care of the larvae and clean the nest.

There is also the green worm pasture that is about to be taken over, raising green worms and collecting green worms, all of which require a large number of worker ants.

So for the current insect nest, the more worker ants, the better.

A few months later, a Milky Way on the cliff wall surged down, the water splashed, majestic, splashing boiling water mist, reflecting the dazzling brilliance.

A lake is formed under the waterfall, with sparkling waves, and layers of ripples are swayed by the gentle wind. Seen from above, the originally perfect disk-shaped lake is slightly flawed, with a gap in the edge of the disk, forming a small river meandering away.

The banks of lakes and streams are lush and full of life.

At this time, there was a tall tree several hundred meters away from the shore of the lake, dozens of meters high, and the huge canopy covered the sky and the sun.

On its dark brown tree trunk, there was a black beetle the size of a plate lying on it, like a dog skin plaster, affecting the overall harmony and beauty.

This is Rowan overlooking his territory.

Since this time, the worm nest has successively attacked seven ant nests around it, and its sphere of influence has expanded to more than 300 meters. Although it may seem small, it is already a huge territory for ants who are generally not as big as their fingernails.

Before, this territory supported seven ant nests with a population of more than 5,000.

The worm's nest has taken over such a large area, and there are more than 20 other ant nests that continue to receive blood transfusions. The number of worm populations has more than doubled to more than twenty thousand.

Among them, the number of soldier ants is just over a thousand, and there are also various special units with only a few hundred in number, such as spy bugs and big-eyed reconnaissance bugs. All other ants are worker ants, and the ratio of those with digging feet and those without digging feet is three to seven.

Rowan found that by adding more gene segments, bugs grew special organ tissues. Not only is the cost of the eggs a little higher, but even the usual consumption is a little higher.

Although it is insignificant from the point of view of the increase of a single bird, if the number increases, the additional consumption will be very considerable under the accumulation of time.

Therefore, according to the calculation, Rowan chose the ratio of Sanqikai.

Worker ants with excavating feet are mainly responsible for the maintenance of underground passages and carrying food from the rest of the nest.

The worker ants without digging feet are responsible for the new industry of the nest - raising green translucent worms. Rowan gave them a commemorative name, aphids.

Seventy percent of the worm nests have more than 15,000 worker ants. Those lacking digging feet have lighter bodies, which are just right for work like climbing trees.

Every day, these worker ants rush over the various vegetation in the territory. The aphid family, which was not too prosperous at first, has been vigorously supported.

Originally, these translucent green bugs had very poor mobility. After birth, they would not move their nests unless they had eaten the leaves under their feet.

But under the guidance of Rowan, the worker ants used their jaws to pick up these small insects, help them migrate to new vegetation, and help them spread their branches and leaves.

After these worms **** the branches and leaves, the worker ants will massage them to help them excrete translucent water droplets.

The worker ants will devour these water droplets, in addition to eating some themselves. They can also spit out water droplets to feed other companions.

After the companions are full, they will spit out the excess water droplets in a special place to dry.

After a period of drying, the water in the water droplets evaporates, leaving behind light yellow crystals. The taste is sweet and delicious, it is a rare sweet, and it is very easy to store~www.novelmt.com~ However, Rowan, who knows their production process, will not eat these things, and don't ask him how to know their taste.

However, aphids are a pest to vegetation. As their families prospered, the leaves of the vegetation in the territory were also plagued.

Also, these aphids reproduce quite quickly. With the help of worker ants, the numbers grow exponentially.

The branches and leaves of many plants are eaten clean, and they gradually wither without sufficient photosynthesis.

Rowan discovered this change in time. He knew that it would not take long for the vegetation in the territory to be eaten up.

His previous approach was a bit stale.

However, because of his previous human background, he naturally had some unique talent for planting, and he came up with a brilliant idea on a whim.

He found out that ants also excrete, but some worker ants will clean up the excrement from the nest every day and find a place to stack it.

And if there are plants near these stacking points, they will grow more luxuriantly.

Rowan understood that this was probably fertilization, and it was also biological fertilizer.

Unfortunately, the excrement of ants is too small, even if the amount of tens of thousands of ants in a day is not much, it cannot provide fertilizer for too many plants.

Rowan thought for a long time and guessed that the less excretion was probably because of the ants. Now most of the food is water droplets discharged by aphids. It's no wonder that eating this kind of thing is so rare.

Does that mean eating more solid food will increase the production of bio-fertilizers?

It is said that a mental patient has a broad mind. When he thinks of solid food, Rowan immediately thinks of the only big experience he had after he became a bug.

Aren't these ready-made solid foods everywhere?

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