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Chapter 74 Bee Emperor?

"So what if they are all queen bees?"

Ling Zikai asked subconsciously.

Li Yan glanced at Ling Zikai dissatisfied, and then saw that everyone's faces were also a bit puzzled, obviously did not understand what he meant, so he couldn't help but said angrily: "Okay, dare I spend a long time just now. His tongue is playing the piano to a cow!"

"What is playing the piano with a cow? If you make it clear, everyone will not understand it!"

Liu Yan was afraid that her boyfriend's words would offend everyone, so she quickly objected.

"Li Yan's words are correct!
Since you are asking him for some knowledge about bees, you must take what he just said into your heart and write it down, so as not to waste his words, otherwise you are not playing the piano with the cow! "

The one who spoke was naturally Professor Lin Xing'an. He glanced at everyone dissatisfied, and said old-fashionedly:
"Didn't Li Yan already say that when he talked about it just now, there is usually only one queen bee in a bee colony, and when two queen bees appear, they will fight each other until there is only one left.

You said, so many queen bees not only appear in one nest at the same time, but also live in harmony. What kind of phenomenon is that?
He didn't even listen to this most basic common sense, is Li Yan playing the piano to the cow! "

After listening to Professor Lin's explanation, everyone realized it and felt a little ashamed.

Li Yan made Lin Xing'an feel a little embarrassed when he said this, and said to everyone: "I'm sorry, the metaphor I just made was a bit inappropriate—"

Lin Xing'an interrupted him and said, "You can apologize! If you want to be a student, you have to act like a student! If I hear the students below raise such a question after class, I will be bombarded immediately." Out of the classroom."

He paused for a while, and then asked with some doubts: "Li Yan, are you sure these bees are queen bees?"

Li Yan hesitated when he heard this.

He naturally knew about Lin Xing'an, a legendary figure in Lin University.

Although he is a bit crazy in dealing with people, he is also a recognized authority in the industry in terms of academics.

In other words, if there is no outstanding achievement, what is the right to be "crazy"?

After Li Yan carefully identified the bees in the hive again, he nodded to Lin Xing'an, and said affirmatively: "From the external characteristics, I dare to conclude that these are queen bees. How about you, Professor Lin?" Making sure?"

Lin Xing'an waved his hand and said, "I specialize in art, and entomology is not my strong point. I've heard of your name, Li Yan, too. You are a master's student at the Department of Entomology of Linda University. You are better than me in entomology." Strong research."

Hearing Lin Xing'an's praise, not only Li Yan was happy, but even Liu Yan's face showed excitement.

"According to your research, how to explain this phenomenon?"

But Lin Xing'an didn't wait for the excitement on Li Yan's face to dissipate, and immediately posed a difficult problem.

Fortunately, Li Yan does have some research on entomology, especially on bees. After pondering for a while, he said slowly:
"These are all from one of the four famous bee species in the world - Xing'an black bee.

It is also the only bee species distributed in Xing'an Mountains in the world.

They are ferocious, not easy to domesticate, and live in a closed and superior natural environment in a wild state for a long time.

From the perspective of genetics, it has stable heredity, and has its special morphological indicators and biological characteristics, which are incomparable to other bee species, and it is also an extremely precious bee gene pool that is rare in my country and even in the world.

There is one notable feature that distinguishes this bee from other bee species, that is:

The queen bee of Xing'an black bee has brown rings on the back of the 1st to 5th segment of the abdomen.On the midline of the abdominal dorsal plate, there is an inverted triangular black spot from the first abdominal segment to the distal segment.The hairs are all yellowish brown.

Worker bees have smaller yellow spots on both sides of the back plate of the second and third abdominal segments, and the fluff on the back plate of the thorax is yellowish brown.In the two types of worker bees, each abdominal segment has a wider yellow-brown hair band, which is slightly narrower than that of the Caucasian bee. Sections 2 and 3 are all black.

For drones, the rear edges of the 1-5 segments of the abdomen have brown glossy edges, the last segment is black, the hairs on the abdomen are very long, and the hairs on the thorax are yellowish brown.

The main characteristics of these bees in front of us are consistent with the Xing'an black bees. The only difference is that the main color of these bees is black, and they are larger, one-third larger than other black bee queens.

According to my inference, they may be a group of black bees from the virgin forest, and have never been in contact with other bee species outside, so they still maintain the oldest, most primitive, and purest genetic genes in their bodies. "

Hearing this, Ling Zikai admired him secretly. Based on these dozen or so bees, he could roughly determine their origins. This Li Yan looked ugly and a little arrogant, but he pretended to be a real talent.

Du Juan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly retorted: "You have said so much, but you haven't explained clearly the question that Professor Lin just asked!"

Li Yan said with some shame: "As for why they are all queen bees, I don't dare to judge in a short time."

"It's not that I dare not, but that I can't find the reason at all!"

Ling Zikai saw that Du Juan, who was always gentle and enthusiastic towards people, suddenly made things difficult for the guests today, and felt a little abnormal, so he gave her a puzzled look.

Just at this time, Du Juan also cast a meaningful look at him, with a weird smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I know why this phenomenon occurs!"

Zhang Hao on the side said loudly.

"Oh!"

Everyone turned their attention to Zhang Hao.

Seeing that he had attracted everyone's attention, Zhang Hao was a little proud, and said carelessly: "This problem is not simple! In the past, all you saw were low-level bees, and there could only be one queen bee in a worker bee colony." , this is not surprising!

Now, there is a group of queen bees, there is only one reason, that is, these trained worker bees have evolved into 'queen bees', and the queen bees who lead them have also evolved into 'emperor bees'! "

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, and then they all laughed so much that they covered their stomachs and bent down.

Zhang Nan laughed angrily and urgently, pointed at Zhang Hao and said, "Brother, you stay at home all day because you are obsessed with reading fantasy novels! What about 'Emperor Bee', oh, I'm dying of laughter!"

After a while, everyone stopped laughing.

The atmosphere in the arena seemed much lighter.

Li Yan was a little unconvinced and said: "To find out the cause of an abnormal phenomenon, one must understand the ins and outs of the incident, and only after a lot of research and reasoning can a conclusion be drawn, rather than just a few glances. Arbitrary. As long as you give me time, I believe I will be able to explain clearly."

Lin Xing'an nodded in agreement and said: "Xiao Li's words are good! Doing scientific research must be rigorous, and the conclusions drawn must be logical and can withstand the refutation of others."

Hearing Li Yan's words, Ling Zikai's heart skipped a beat. He seemed to have guessed Du Juan's plan, so he began to think about it, subconsciously twisting his left earlobe with the fingers of his left hand.

Seeing Ling Zikai's iconic action, Du Juan knew that he had realized something, and smiled knowingly.

On the other hand, Zhang Hao, who was next to him, saw Ling Zikai's appearance, and he felt suspicious for a while.

They have been classmates for four years, of course he knows that as long as this buddy shows his habit of twirling his earlobe with his fingers, it means that he has something on his mind.

And it is clear that if the right hand twists the right ear, it is planning a good thing; if the left hand twists the left ear, it will be broken, and someone must be unlucky.

Zhang Hao glanced at the people present, wondering who would be the one who got caught!

(End of this chapter)