The care of rhinoceros at different young stages is similar. Pay attention to maintaining a certain temperature and humidity, provide sufficient food, pay attention to eliminate fungi and mites, and pay attention to hygiene.
For example, in terms of humidity, rhinoceros larvae must live in a humid environment because their valves are open, otherwise they will easily die due to rapid loss of water from the body.
In terms of temperature, the most suitable temperature for the growth of rhinoceros larvae is 23-25°C. At this temperature, they are most active in eating and have the best growth conditions. Although the larvae can tolerate high temperatures of 30°C, it will have an adverse effect on growth. Below 20°C, their food intake is reduced and their growth is slow. Below 10°C, they enter a dormant state, basically do not eat, and their weight will decrease. Rhizoma larvae can only tolerate temperatures that are too high or too low for a short period of time, and then die in large numbers.
In terms of food, although rhinoceros larvae are relatively docile and can live in groups, they will bite each other when the density is too high and there is insufficient food.
In addition to plant foods such as sawdust, unicorn larvae also like to eat foods with high protein, fat and other contents, and they need to be appropriately supplemented with some such foods.
During the stage of raising rhinoceros larvae, especially after the larvae grow to the second instar, the ants raised should pay attention to the smell information of the nest in the breeding location, so that these larvae can adapt to the presence of the raiser as soon as possible and become familiar with their smell. Prepare for domestication after pupa emergence.
It takes more than 20 days for the pupae to emerge. The elytra of the newly emerged adults are white and soft, and after a few hours they turn dark and hardened. The newly emerged adults do not eat or move, and will continue to hibernate in the pupa chamber for more than ten days, and then emerge from the soil to start foraging and mating.
This period of dormancy is the best time for the mysterious big-headed ant colony to tame the rhinoceros beetles. If the taming fails during this period, it will be difficult to tame them again. The only way to kill and eat the beetles that failed to tame them is to kill them. Because during this period, the unicorn is extremely docile and is the easiest time to communicate.
Those mysterious big-headed ant colonies, the way they tame beetles such as unicorns is not like the protagonist's large-scale domestication of flies, which mainly relies on a combination of honeydew rewards and sting punishments, but uses a method similar to mind control.
The protagonist has already known before that information can be exchanged between ants and flies through their tentacles. By extension, ants and other insects, including beetles such as unicorn beetles, can communicate.
Although this kind of communication is not through language, the protagonist fails to communicate directly with the fly using the ant's message communication method.
But emotions and information packages can be communicated. Just like humans and wolves cannot talk, but when they see a wolf running away with its tail between its legs, you can tell that the wolf is afraid.
Therefore, the way the protagonist communicates with the fly is to send an information packet. This information packet allows the recipient (that is, the fly) to watch the sender's personal experience or his fabricated experience from a first-person perspective.
The protagonist uses a fictitious information package to let the fly know that accepting his command can get rewards, and disobeying him will result in being stung. Moreover, they will then strictly follow the behavior-result correspondence of the information package, eventually making these flies semi-domesticated and accepting the fact that they are ridden by flying knights in exchange for food and safety.
This mysterious colony of big-headed ants also uses the same method of transmitting information packets, but relying only on these information packets, they can teach the horned fairy to cooperate with them to complete domestication. This is because the beetles have no resistance to the ants. These big-headed ants have been living with the rhinopterus day and night when they were still larvae, allowing them to be contaminated with the smell of their nest.
Beetles that have just emerged from pupae are not only docile, but also stupid. Their brains are still a mess, and it takes time to slowly awaken the instincts deep in their genes.
At this time, the mysterious big-headed ant group will deceive these unicorns in the information package, making the unicorns think that they and the big-headed ants are of the same race, making it easier to accept these domesticators.
If the information packets sent by the ants are effective, they can completely cover up some of the instincts of the ants, allowing them to master the skills they need in the future in the way the ants want, such as how to receive command signals from the ants.
When the protagonist saw this, he couldn't help but marvel at the abilities of this group of mysterious big-headed ants. This was definitely not a simple domestication technology, it was definitely an experience and method summed up after long-term practice.
Although the mysterious big-headed ant held back and did not provide the information package required for domestication during this most critical period, the protagonist has seen that it is indeed feasible.
Moreover, although this domestication is aimed at beetles, to be precise, it is more based on the unicorn beetle as an example, but considering that many beetles have similar living habits, it can also be used to domesticate other beetles such as stag beetles.
The principle contained in it made the protagonist suddenly enlightened, and he immediately thought of many ways to improve his existing domesticated flies. The protagonist even feels that he can learn from his experience and try to tame many other insects.
It can be said that the domestication technology mastered by this mysterious group of big-headed ants is definitely an advanced scientific technology, which cannot be mastered by a small group. Even "big-headed ants kingdom" and "pavement ant barbarian kingdom" with relatively vast territories "Big countries" have not been able to develop this type of technology for hundreds or thousands of years.
In the protagonist's opinion, the technological level of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom and the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom is roughly at the Paleolithic Age. However, this mysterious group of Big-headed Ants, purely from the perspective of domestication technology, has at least advanced by human standards. Entered the Neolithic Age after the Agricultural Revolution.
Considering that this mysterious group of big-headed ants call themselves "remnants" (survivors who arrived in another world without disappearing with their nests in the old world), they mentioned another world.
The protagonist believes that this community comes from a country with more developed civilization. Even the civilization of that "world" is more developed than the two countries and numerous indigenous groups on both sides of the river.
It was a brand new world, a world that made the protagonist's blood boil. The protagonist had stayed in this ignorant place for too long. The entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom and even the entire valleys on both sides of the river were like a prison. The prisoners inside were ignorant and closed. The fire of their civilization is so weak that it seems to be extinguished at any time.
In this environment, the protagonist seems to feel that his soul and mind from the real "other world" are also degenerating.
If this was the world, maybe the protagonist would just accept his fate.
But now, a spark of a more advanced civilization suddenly ignites the passion in the protagonist's heart that is about to burn to ashes - he wants to figure out the situation in this new world, even if it is only a little bit more advanced than the current world.
