People are in Taoyuan, there are really no beasts in the mountains behind my home

Chapter 80 Red Fire Ants

The whole body of fire ants is red scorpion in color, similar to common ants in appearance, about 3mm to 6mm in length, looks unattractive, and seems to have nothing special about them.

But don't be fooled by their appearance!In fact, they are ferocious by nature and extremely fertile.

The reproduction speed of RIFA is astonishing. In the RIFA colony, the queen is the key role responsible for laying eggs and multiplying offspring. In some RIFA nests there will be several or even dozens of queens. Each queen can Lay 1500 to 5000 eggs.

The number of RIFAs can increase in a short period of time, resulting in extremely large ant colonies. Some ant nests may have as many as 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands of RIFAs.

Their feeding habits are very mixed, and their foraging ability is strong. Their food includes seeds of 149 kinds of wild flowers and plants, 57 kinds of crops, and insects and other arthropods, invertebrates, and vertebrates. In short, there are very few things they don’t eat .

This is why this terrifying alien species can cause harm.

Just as Lin Bei and the audience in the live broadcast room were discussing science, two black Audis slowly stopped at the entrance of the village.

Lin Bei saw that the person who opened the door was Zhou Jiang and Xie Ze'an, who had been to his house before and entered the mountain together.

"Lin Bei, get in the car, we have to get there." Zhou Jiang shouted.

The two got into the car, and Zhou Jiang introduced the two experts sent by the Municipal Bureau to Lin Bei in the car.

One is Professor Yi, who is responsible for pest and disease prevention, and the other is Director Chen, who is in charge of environmental monitoring.

After saying hello to each other, Lin Bei heard Professor Yi beside him start talking about the specific situation in Iwata Village.

"Since everyone has already expired, let me briefly say a few points."

"This time Bureau Zhao asked me to take you to act together. Please listen to Director Chen and me for anything."

"The red fire ants are a very harmful species, and they are also very poisonous."

"According to the latest news, three villagers in Yantian Village have been stung by red fire ants, and two are in critical condition."

"Hiss! What kind of experts say that the red fire ants seem to be very powerful??"

"Cut, bricks? What you say is all lies. What are you afraid of ants? They are so small that they can trample a bunch of them to death with one foot."

"I've never heard of the name Red Fire Ant, but I just heard from the anchor and the others that I wish I had seen it in a documentary."

"Can ant stings cause coma?? Is what the old man said true or false??"

There was a voice of doubt in the live broadcast room.

Soon, after half an hour's drive, everyone arrived at the entrance of Yantian Village.

At this time, many villagers surrounded the village entrance, pointing at the yellow land in the field, not knowing what to say.

Several police officers responsible for maintaining law and order have already cordoned off.

"Widow Liu at the entrance of the village is really a sinner. She went to the toilet in the corn field and was stung by red fire ants."

"I heard that people are in a coma"

"The red fire ants are really powerful. In the past few months, I really didn't think there were so many."

"Yeah, look at the open space over there, I heard it's all nests of fire ants"

The surrounding villagers talked in a low voice.

After Lin Bei got out of the car, he slowly lifted the drone in his hand into the air, and took pictures of the landscape and environment of Iwata Village.

When the villagers in Yantian Village saw Director Chen and Professor Yi get out of the car, they gathered around one after another, looking for a reasonable way to kill the fire ants.

"These should be experts in the city, right?!"

"I beg of you, please wipe out all these damned red fire ants!!"

"In the past year, basically all the crops we planted have been eaten up by these red fire ants."

"That's right, just today, there are quite a few people who were stung by red fire ants and fell into a coma."

"These experts, you must help us!!"

The onlookers spoke out.

"Everyone, don't panic. I'm the team leader in charge of pest control in Huxi City. This time I'm here, and I will definitely solve the harm of the red fire ants for everyone."

"But before that, we have to conduct an on-the-spot investigation."

"Where is your village chief?" Professor Yi asked the crowd.

"Our village chief?? The village chief was bitten by red fire ants this morning, and he is lying in the hospital now."

"In the past few days, at least a dozen people in our village have been stung. Some people are better, with only rashes and red and swollen wounds, but some people are miserable. For example, Widow Liu was stung by seven or eight red fire ants. Afterwards, the trousers didn’t come and I passed out.”

"Fortunately, the dogs in our village found it in time!! Otherwise, I'm afraid they will die." Several villagers yelled.

Finally, under the coordination of the police officers responsible for maintaining order on the scene, the village arranged for two young men to lead everyone in Linbei towards the cordoned corn field.

"Experts, there are simply too many of these RIFAs. In the past two months, there were not that many. Now, look, the bumps bulging in the open space over there are all RIFA nests."

"Look, the corn that is about to mature has been harmed by them."

As the young man pointed his fingers, the rows of tall corn had some problems with their growth. The leaves were withered and yellow, and the roots and leaves seemed to be eaten by something.

"Lin Bei, is there red fire ants in this corn?" Huang Jia asked in a low voice.

"The current situation is unclear, and I'm not sure, but judging from the nests on both sides of this road, it should be red fire ants."

"Look, these are red fire ants, worker ants, look at the poisonous needles on their tails, they use this to inject venom into the human body." Lin Bei squatted down, pointing to a red fire ant that was looking for food in the weeds road.

"In terms of size, they are no different from ordinary ants, but their toxicity is not small."

Director Chen at the side explained aloud.

Lin Bei followed the crowd and wandered around, finding at least 50 RIFA nests.

There are at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of red fire ants in a nest.

The hillsides near Yantian Village are all occupied by red imported fire ants. There may be more than a few hundred soil bumps like this!
From this point of view, the number of red fire ants is shocking.

"Good guy, is this the nest of the red fire ants???"

"This is indeed different from the nest of ordinary ants. The soil on this mound seems to be very soft."

"Isn't this dense mound too much?? My God, how many ants are there!"

"If there are too many ants, they can kill an elephant. It seems that this village of Yantian has been taken over by fire ants."

"Anchor, how did this alien species come across the sea to China?"

"Can you catch an ant and show us what this red fire ant looks like! I'm curious!!"

"I'm also curious about what it feels like to be bitten. Can the anchor give it a try!!? Let the ant bite."

"What's the best way to deal with this kind of red fire ants?? The anchor, please popularize!!"

(End of this chapter)