Before introducing this insect, let's look at a short story.
The slave ant queen sat majestically on her throne and was giving orders: "A black ant camp was found behind the mountain!" Scout, go scout at once, come back immediately! ”
"Yes, Your Majesty!" The scouts set off immediately.
After a while, the scout returned. "Report to Your Majesty that the morale of the enemy army is slow. The number is half that of our army, and the resources are abundant. Whether to attack or not, please ask Your Majesty to decide."
"Nice! Immediately assemble the team and follow me into the camp of the black ants," the queen ordered.
The queen's army rushed to the enemy camp with great momentum. When the black ants saw this, they immediately fought back and vowed to defend their homeland to the death. The two sides immediately fought fiercely together, and the battle was quite fierce! At this time, a large number of enemy troops poured in from the depths of the cave. Quickly surround the queen.
Not good! The enemy forces are hiding their strength, and the intelligence is wrong! The queen immediately fell to the ground and pretended to be dead.
When the enemy army found that the opposing queen was dead, they dragged the body of the slave queen back to the cave as a major trophy and repaid the queen to his own.
But the black ants didn't know. The real battle has only just begun. When the black ants have all receded, only the slave queen and the black ant queen are left in the cave. At this moment, the slave ant queen suddenly came back to life and pounced on the black ant queen like a hungry tiger preying. Since the black ant queen was unintended by her side, she was killed in a short time.
The slave ant queen then absorbs the pheromones from the black ants into herself. Posing as a black ant queen, he "gave orders", and the battle immediately stopped. At this time, the black ants seemed to have been brainwashed, and they all served the slave queen. At this point, the battle is officially over.
At the end of the story, the insects we are going to introduce today are the slave owners of the ant family, "slave ants", which live in South America. Slave ants are very intelligent and mainly live by plundering and raising slaves. They will attack other surrounding ants, plundering each other's larvae and pupae. When these larvae and pupae grow up, they become "slaves" to slave ants. Their job is to forage for slave ants, raise larvae, clean, and even build nests. The life cycle of these "ant slaves" is not long, in order to supplement the "labor", so the slave ants must constantly wage war...
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