The queen bee's counterattack became more and more strenuous, which was a sign that her physical strength and patience had been exhausted. However, the ant hunter was still very calm, carefully controlling the distance and position, trying his best to avoid unnecessary casualties.
In terms of physical strength and patience, a queen bee who builds such a large nest by herself, lays bee eggs in it, and forages for food to fill her stomach every day is definitely not as good as the Japanese ant hunters who are recharging their energy. He was injured again, so as long as this drags on, the situation will become more and more favorable to the hunters.
Japanese ant hunters have begun to shift targets and no longer open new wounds to the queen to prevent the target from being injured and exhausted. They began to look for opportunities to bite the queen's wings, biting out holes one by one, biting off the fragments and carefully collecting them to eliminate the queen's ability to escape and also collect the transparent wing membranes that the queens love. Because wasps lack nerves in their wings, the queen does not become more irritable because of damaged wings.
But at this time, there was a sudden thunder in the clear sky, which startled the queen bee and the ants. Looking up at the sky, it is still blue sky with white clouds and the sun is shining brightly. But in the tentacles, an obvious change in air pressure is being detected.
The ant hunters paused for a moment. The thunder reminded them, dozens of tentacles were groping around in the air, and the signs of weather changes became more and more obvious. If you climb to the top of this mountain, your eyesight will be able to provide a more obvious answer - the dark clouds covering the sky in the southeast are quickly approaching, and hail and torrential rain are rapidly expanding their rule.
The weather on the mountain changed extremely, and the Japanese ant natives had learned countless bloody lessons. The hunters decisively withdrew the encirclement and hurriedly found cover nearby. They were not worried about the target queen escaping. Her wings were damaged and her body was injured, so it was impossible for her to risk flying away. Sure enough, the queen bee also noticed the danger of the weather and clung to the bottom of the hive to take shelter from the rain.
Amidst the intermittent thunder, the ant hunters found a big stone and hid in the crevices below. Almost instantly, the sound of crackling hailstones and raindrops hitting the ground monopolized all the sound effects between heaven and earth. The huge white noise spread into the stone crevices, rippled back and forth, and made the antennae of the ants huddled inside uncomfortable. He got up and had to retract his tentacles.
A torrent soon appeared on the ground outside. Brown muddy water with white foam flowed everywhere, washing away everything on the surface. It was blocked and diverted into the distant valley. Some rainwater even flooded into the cracks in the rocks, and the ants had to scatter deeper to hide.
The hail and heavy rain came and went quickly. After half an hour, the rain subsided, and then almost instantly, the sun came to dominate the earth again.
The antennae of the ants are very sensitive weather detectors. After noticing that the air pressure returned to normal, the ants came out of the stone crevice shelter one after another. They touched each other with their tentacles and found that the number of ants was 3 less than when they arrived. I don’t know whether he didn’t hide in the crack in the rocks in time and was blown away by the wind, or whether he was washed away by the rising muddy water after hiding in.
Life and death were the norm. These hunters did not look for their companions. They quickly packed themselves up and headed towards the location of the hive again. They didn't think about whether the queen and the hive were still intact. If they were alive, they would continue hunting. If they were dead, they could take them back to the nest as trophies and eat a meal of meat.
The pheromones on the ground have been washed clean by the rain, but experienced hunters remember the general direction. A group of ants groped around in circles, getting closer to the target.
There were many corpses of bugs on the road, including flying insects and reptiles. They died from hail or stagnant water, and were washed to some low-lying places and gathered together. The ant hunters left pheromones nearby, but ignored the readily available food and continued toward their only target.
The beehive appeared in front of us, buffered by tall grass. Although this sturdy beehive had been hit by hailstones ranging in size from soybeans to broad beans, and its surface was messy and covered with grass blades and muddy water, it still stood strong. The queen bee was also alive and escaped by hiding under the hive. However, her body was inevitably wet. She was already injured and had some hypothermia. She was struggling to lick the water droplets off her body.
The ants formed a circle again. When the queen saw it, she had no strength to resist like before. Because her wings were wet, she couldn't even take off and escape. She could only hold on to the hive, looking extremely pitiful.
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Most of the sulfur powder was lost in the rain, and the rest was soaked in water and discarded, so they could only launch a strong attack. The queen used her last strength to resist, killing two Japanese ants that were accidentally bitten, and finally fell to the ground exhausted. The ant hunter immediately removed its wings and six limbs, covered the bee's mouth with ant glue, and then carried the still writhing living trophy back.
After hearing the news, the ants who came to support later also snatched the eggs and newly hatched young bees from the hive and transported them back to the nest together. Naturally, they would not let go of the insect corpses along the way - it was a good harvest.
The Japanese Camponotus ant tribe will provide food for the incapacitated queen bee in the ant nest so that it can continue to lay eggs. It will also take care of the young bees on behalf of the worker bees. When the ant alliance's transport team arrives, it will hand over the eggs and young bees. Go out and exchange for necessary supplies. Trade has made the life of this Japanese ant tribe much better today than it was a few years ago.
Although they have new items such as clay pots and ropes, the Japanese ant tribe still retains most of its previous customs. They have not expanded the size of their ant colony because it is easier to obtain food. Except for the queen's preference for crow honey, they have not Too many other luxury needs developed. They still live roughly the same life as their ancestors thousands of years ago. Like their ancestors, they process the transparent wing valves of wasps into the beautiful clothes of the queen. Like their ancestors, they bite old wasps to death every spring, forcing the colony to find new ones. The queen bee will be content to live in simple stone crevices like her ancestors and will not move to other fertile places.
Zhu Jue found it very interesting after reading the information packet about their hunting of wasp queens. In this ant world, because ants are smaller and there are so many ant species, even the same kind of ants can behave differently in different environments. Different civilizational characteristics, different living customs, and different aesthetic styles will develop. The world of ant civilization is like a colorful garden, and every ant force is a bright and fragrant flower, whether it is a large empire with hundreds of millions of soldiers, or a small tribe composed of dozens or hundreds of ants. Clan, as long as you taste it carefully, you can chew out the tenacity and wisdom contained in it.
