On Earth, the most well-known social insects are, of course, ants and bees, and in addition to them, there are certain wasps and termites that are also social in general.Many people think that termites are also a type of ant, but in a different color?
Similar to black ants and red ants?
But in fact, termites are insects of the class 'Cockroaches', and ants are insects of the class 'Hymenoptera', and the gap between the two is simply not too big, because in this way, termites are closer to cockroaches than ants.The earth's environment is blessed, and any strange creatures in the universe can find similar 'relatives' on the earth, and the Zerg is no exception.Of course, there are some subtle differences, such as the three characteristics of social insects on the earth.The first is flexibility, the nest can adapt to changing circumstances at any time.It could be the external environment, such as flash floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc.It may also be an internal change, such as the sudden death of the queen ant, the outbreak of the nest ecological crisis, and so on.But a mature nest will always have a way to cope with these situations, and their social nature compensates for the weakness of individual power, and can avoid environmental changes that are devastating for most insects.The second is the robustness of the nest, even if the individual fails, the entire nest still completes the task.For example, ants sometimes prey on large insects for food, such as scorpions, and a single ant is not worth mentioning to a scorpion, and can kill a large area at will.However, when thousands of ants rush up one after another, the scorpion will eventually bite through the weak joints of the carapace and finally die of formic acid poisoning.Some people may have seen ants crossing rivers, they will form a 'ant ball', the queen and eggs are wrapped in the center, and the outer layers of worker ants are wrapped up to form a protective layer, this kind of ant ball can cross large rivers, which is more common in seasonal flooded areas such as the African savannah.The worker ants in the outer layer will definitely die in the end, but the ants in the inner layer will be protected and let the nest continue to move forward.This is the fact that after the nest group has set a collective goal, the life and death of the individual have been put aside, and only for one goal to work collectively.The third point is the difference between the earth's creatures and the alien Zerg.Earth-living insects have a 'personality'.You can't find two identical individuals from an ant nest or a bee nest, and even though worker ants and worker bees are 'tool people' who don't even have the ability to reproduce, they actually look different in appearance when viewed under a microscope, and if you take out their genes and send them for testing, each one is different.The social insects of the earth are sentient beings, they use pheromones and body movements to communicate, listen to commands, and act in concert.The nest is their main body of service, every insect survives to work for it, and the individual is not worth mentioning, including the queen bee, which can be replaced, because it is only a reproductive machine, an important part of the population.But these characteristics do not hold true for the alien zerg, just like someone is troublesome, and the bottom layer of most of them worker bees seems to be printed from a mold, without any difference, it is a simple copy of flesh and blood.These bugs that come down the 'assembly line' have the same appearance, the same smell, and the same genes, and they may not even have independent thoughts.Some Zerg don't even have brains, they only have a receiver in their skull, and they may be ruled by a 'hive mind' through technology or psychic abilities, and everything they do is in the service of that will."
The three kinds of zergs in the negative space can be understood as locusts, bees, and ants."
Su Ming put down the empty jar in his hand and rolled it back and forth on the table to play, attracting his cousin's eyes to follow it."
Locusts?"
Doom repeats a word of concern: "I don't remember locusts being social insects." ”"In fact, this is called environmental 'stress social living', locusts are originally scattered insects, but when the environment is uncomfortable or the population density in an area is too large, their CY3052 gene will be activated, so that they mutate the ability to secrete pheromones, so that they can transform into a social form, the Asian locust is the most typical example."
Su Ming explained, and when he said this, he inevitably thought of his past life, and he still wanted to laugh.Because in my previous life, I went online, and for a while I liked to watch history, saying that someone traveled back to ancient times and happened to encounter a locust plague, so he gave the emperor an idea to let the people eat locusts to exterminate the plague and so on.He also said that the locust plague was like a dark cloud, and when he took off his shoes and went down to the air, it was a grand slam, and the common people ate meat and got fat.With the protagonist's 'clever plan', the ancients wiped out the locust plague in a few days, and then the protagonist was rewarded by the emperor to be a big official, marry a few princesses, and go to the pinnacle of life or something.Every time he saw a similar plot, Su Ming would die of poison, because swarms of locusts couldn't be eaten.I don't know if anyone has noticed that the sporadic locusts look emerald green or a little yellowish, but the swarms of locusts are 'blackened' because they produce pheromones in groups, and the chemical environment in their bodies changes accordingly, which also produces two other substances.Phenylacetonitrile and hydrocyanic acid, which is why locust plagues cannot be eaten, the former only has a pungent and unpleasant smell so that natural enemies such as birds and finches no longer eat locusts, while the latter is highly toxic, with a lethal dose of 04 milligrams per kilogram of body weight on the human body.Those ancient people who ate locusts may have really gained weight, but that was the skin swelling caused by the destruction of the blood circulation system after poisoning, right?
It's just that the past is only nostalgic when I think about it now, Su Ming himself has crossed over, maybe everyone in the universe of those ancient time-travelers is anti-poison x?"
Ahem."
Su Ming cleared his throat and threw the empty jar to his cousin to play with, Wade immediately squatted on the ground like a cat and rolled the jar with his hand, and he himself continued to say to Doom: "The annihilation zerg in negative space is actually like a template of locusts, they were originally evolved from the spores on the planet Argorr, and they do not have any group, but when enough annihilation zergs gather on the planet with limited space, they form a nest group, And the Annihilation Insect King, who picked up the cosmic control rod, became their leader and ruler. ”Doctor Doom put down the soda bottle and hugged his arm, he was thinking, and then his voice came from under the iron mask: "So, the individuals among them are actually able to think and have independent consciousness, right?"
”"Yes, the Annihilation Zerg is not the most dangerous of the three negative space Zergs, but it is indeed the most cunning, they have advanced technology, strong individual soldier ability, a large number of biological warships, endless soldiers, and a king with the top strength of a single universe."