Chapter 5 Forest Swift Bee
The appearance of the worker bee has not changed much. The body surface is still mainly yellow and black, but the color has deepened. The wings have become thicker and no longer transparent, with fine black lines all over them.
I can feel that its vitality is much stronger.
The most important thing is that its wings beat very fast.
Hua Mi controlled it to fly several times in the air, and its speed was estimated to be twice that of an ordinary bee!
And it shows no adverse traits.
Huami generally uses three attributes to evaluate the strength of a bee species.
One is lifespan.
The second is fecundity.
The third is productivity.
The third productivity is mainly related to the structure and mobility of the bees themselves.
Bees have a structure called a honey sac, which is a place where nectar is stored. How much nectar can be carried back to the nest at one time depends on its size. The larger the honey sac, the higher the efficiency.
Needless to say about mobility, the faster the flight speed, the shorter the round trip time.
This mutant bumble bee is twice as fast, and its efficiency in collecting honey is naturally greatly improved.
"Although it's not a particularly outstanding mutation, I can finally use it."
Now this mutated bumble bee should be the fastest bee in the world.
It's a pity that there is only one.
The method of using mutagenic agents to induce mutations is uncontrollable, and the probability of successfully evolving beneficial traits is very low. Evolving one out of these 50 feels like protection for a novice. According to the probability under normal circumstances, a bee colony may be used as the basis. A new bee can evolve at a cost.
However, after you have more bee colonies, you can use a part of them for experiments.
Once there are many mutant bee species, you can try to use hybridization to create new bee species.
If mutagenic agents are understood as chemical means, then hybridization is a biological means.
Hybridization is safer and less expensive than mutagenic agents.
The bees just need to cheer up.
And hybridization can summarize the rules, control the direction of mutation to a certain extent, and create more and stronger bee species in a planned way.
"In short, building more bee colonies is the top priority."
Hua Mi took out his alchemy notes, turned to a blank page, and wrote the six-character title "Illustrated Book of Mutated Bee Species".
"This mutant bumble bee is characterized by its high speed and it was born in the forest. Let's just call it 'Forest Swift Bee'." Hua
Mi wrote the words "Forest Swift Bee" on the paper.
"The Forest Swift Bee is a mutation of Apis cerana. Its flight speed is twice that of the Apis cerana. Its activity time is the same as that of Apis cerana. It rises during the day and stays at night. Its appearance is mainly yellow and black, with the color deepening and the wings becoming thicker. No longer transparent, covered with fine black lines..."
In addition, there are three attributes of bee colonies: longevity, productivity and fecundity.
It is necessary to make a record.
If the Chinese honeybee is used as the standard, the three attributes are all set to 1.
Then the productivity of the Forest Swift Bee should be set at 2. The amount of nectar collected in a single time has not increased. The advantage is mainly reflected in the speed of movement...in addition to
lifespan and reproductive ability.
He originally thought that this would require observation to determine.
However, after releasing his consciousness and "touching" the forest speed bee carefully, he found that he could clearly perceive the physical state of the bee and abstract it into attribute information.
By comparing it with ordinary bees, you can probably figure out how many times its lifespan and reproductive capacity are.
[Lifespan: 0.5]
[Fecundity: 3]
[Productivity: 2]
The lifespan is only half that of ordinary bees. It's no wonder that the physiological activities of the swift bee are more "rapid" and burn life, so it is reasonable for the life span to be shorter.
The reproductive capacity gave him a small surprise, it was three times that of ordinary bee species.
This makes up for the shortcomings of lifespan. High reproductive capacity means that it takes a short time to breed a new batch of bees. Just like the birth rate of human groups is higher than the death rate, the overall bee colony will show strong vitality.
The number of individual bees in the colony will significantly increase, and the colony's ability to resist risks will also be significantly enhanced.
Not to mention its ability to collect honey, which is estimated to be more than twice that of ordinary bees.
The more Hua Mi explored, the more delighted she became. No beekeeper could refuse the temptation of a new and excellent bee species...
Suddenly, the place on the back of Hua Mi's hand that had been stung felt strange again, and it began to feel hot and numb.
This strange feeling spread from the back of his hand to his forehead.
He had another vision of the small blue bee, and its shadow was right in the middle of his field of vision.
"Do you still have stamina?" Hua Mi's eyes flashed, and then he saw a hazy blue light extending from the blue bee, connecting with the forest speed bee.
This process lasted less than a minute before the connection was lost.
Hua Mi hurriedly investigated and found that there was no problem with the individual Forest Swift Bees, and was relieved.
But under the blue bee in the field of vision, there was the shadow of another bee, which looked exactly like the forest speed bee!
This was a phenomenon he saw intuitively, and he understood its meaning almost instantly.
The blue bee just now, no, to be precise, it was myself who was given super powers by the blue bee, replicating the excellent traits of the forest speed bee!
Moreover, he can in turn pass this trait to the evolutionary mother, which is the ordinary Chinese bee, so that the ordinary bee can evolve into a forest speed bee!
"Try it."
Hua Mi controlled an ordinary worker bee to fly over.
He concentrated his attention and consciously injected the forest speed bee template into the body of ordinary worker bees.
Soon, obvious changes occurred in this worker bee, and a force that was ready to go appeared, just like the bee before it mutated into a forest speed bee.
The worker bee also flew back to the hive and began to secrete wax cocoons.
"But it's still very troublesome to transform them one by one."
You have to know that there are at least seven or eight thousand individual bees in a bee colony. If you transform them one by one, what else should you do?
Hua Mi controlled a group of bees to stop collecting honey and flew back. The remaining bees in the beehive also came out and lined up neatly above the beehive.
He focused his attention, this time the target was not a certain individual, but the entire swarm.
Let the Forest Bee template cover the entire swarm.
Although it took a little longer this time, about two minutes, it was still successful!
The bee colony changes collectively and returns to the hive to secrete waxy cocoons.
"Great!"
With this ability, there is no need to spend a lot of time and energy considering the problem of breeding and expanding individual new bee species into bee colonies.
In just one night, he can create an entire new swarm!
Hua Mi took a deep breath to calm down.
"In other words, as long as a new bee species mutates, I can record this new bee species and expand it into a bee colony in a short time." ...
Hua
Mi did two things next.
The first thing is to gather 50 drones and 50 worker bees from the remaining 29 beehives, with an average of three or four from each beehive, and let them take the mutation lure to try to evolve.
The structure of a bee colony is actually very simple. In addition to worker bees, a beehive has only one queen bee and dozens of drone bees.
Drone bees have only one role, and that is to provide male reproductive cells for the queen bee.
Generally speaking, the queen bee only mates with multiple drones in a short period of time throughout her life, and then stores the male reproductive cells in her body for lifelong use.
Normally, a queen bee at her peak can lay thousands of eggs in 24 hours, say at least seven to eight hundred, which is no problem.
Most develop into worker bees, and a few develop into drones. The proportion mainly depends on the number of worker bees and drone cells.
After laying eggs, the queen bee generally does not need to mate anymore because the internal reserves are sufficient.
After completing the mating task, the drone is no longer needed, because the reproductive organs remain in the queen bee, and the internal organs are torn out, resulting in death. Even if they survive, they will be driven away by the worker bees and starve to death.
He did not experiment with the queen bee. There is only one king in each bee colony. Without the king, the bee colony will have big problems. It is possible to rescue it, but there is a high probability that the whole army will be destroyed.
"I hope there will be an individual that has successfully evolved, even just one."
In this way, he can copy the template and create a swarm.
Hua Mi silently prayed to the Patriarch for blessings, but then she thought that the Patriarch might not be able to hear her prayers in another world.
That's all, don't rely on metaphysics. Following the objective laws of science is the key to success.
"We need to use scientific methods to cultivate magic bees and brew magic honey."
The second thing is that Hua Mi wants to transform all of his ordinary bee colonies into colonies of forest swift bees.
Of course, in the process of evolution, bees will inevitably have to stop collecting honey for a period of time.
But sharpening the knife never misses the woodcutter.
A bee species with twice the collection capacity means that the production time of a batch of honey can be shortened by half. What beekeeper can resist this temptation?
But when he transformed into the tenth swarm, he felt that he was distracted and could no longer concentrate.
"Template transformation is not without cost, it consumes mental energy..."
Hua Mi had to stop. At this time, his brain was as fragmented as if he had been doing high-level math problems for three hours in a row.
He lay down on the recliner, tilted his head, and fell asleep peacefully.
(End of chapter)