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The National Biological Laboratory in Beidu has used the nutrient plundering characteristics of insect trees to plant more than ten insect trees in a fully enclosed laboratory. There is an extremely fierce competition between insect trees. The planting distance of the two insect trees is too close, and the crown of the tree The tentacles on the top actually clashed, entangled and tore each other, and finally one side fell down as a result.

But in two days, half of the twelve insect trees withered, and on the third day, two more withered.

The experimental group headed by Professor Qin thought that the remaining four insect trees would continue to compete, but after several days of observation, it was found that the competition between insect trees actually stopped!

The experimental group immediately adjusted the experimental method and transplanted the four insect trees together. The distance was close enough for the insect trees to "fight", but the four insect trees were still in peace.

The experimental group immediately arranged several other groups of control experiments. It was found that after a period of competition, each group of experimental insect trees would stop the competition on their own when there were three or four remaining trees. The worm trees of the group were all transplanted together, and there was no abnormality.

The reason for this is not difficult to guess - the worm tree has already accumulated enough nutrients, and there is no need to devour the same kind of predatory nutrients!

The experiment did not end here, but continued to develop in depth, torturing the insect tree by reducing the moisture, increasing the water, increasing the light, keeping the darkness, etc., in order to observe the situation of the insect tree.

It was found that worm trees with enough nutrients hardly need to absorb nutrients from the outside world, and light has no effect on the worm trees, but if the worm trees do not get enough water, the number of insect eggs in the canopy will be reduced by 20%. to forty.

This is good news, but a single insect tree can cultivate more than a thousand eggs at most, and even if the output is reduced by half, there will be five or six hundred eggs.

Unless it is a large-scale drought, the possibility of water shortage in the natural environment is extremely small, so such research results are basically unnecessary and do not help the situation facing human beings.

Of course, the experiment is not over yet, and the laboratory began to torture the insect tree with various methods, including but not limited to digging roots, cutting off roots, destroying tree crowns, cutting off succulent trunks from small to large, peeling off epidermis in various areas, and infection with various animal and plant viruses. , contact with various chemical substances, etc.

In short, the laboratory applied all the methods imaginable to the insect tree, just to find a solution that can effectively kill the insect tree.

It was found that destroying the insect tree by physical means can only reduce the production of insect eggs. As long as the insect tree absorbs enough nutrients, even if the crown of the tree is removed alone, a certain number of insect eggs can be produced.

Only by destroying the tree crown can a large number of immature eggs become necrotic, but it must be destroyed when the eggs are immature. Development, otherwise more or less some eggs will survive.

The virus infection experiment has almost no effect. The virus from the earth is either unable to infect, or cannot invade the tree crown after infection, and there is no possibility of virus killing and killing trees in the short term.

The contact experiment of chemical substances is similar. The weakly toxic chemical substances do not work on the insect tree, and the active chemical substance is too toxic. If the countries use it on a large scale, I am afraid that the insect tree has not gone extinct, and more than half of the human beings will die first. .

In order to find out where the limit of the insect tree is, the laboratory even took out the big killer of radiation, irradiated the insect tree with various levels of rays, and observed the change of the insect tree in the rays.

The results were gratifying. After several days of irradiation, the insect tree quickly withered and died, but the crown of the tree was still completely intact, but the tentacles on it all shrank.

The insect eggs in the canopy are still active, and even if they are irradiated with extremely strong radiation for a long time, they will not hurt the insect eggs at all.

This is not surprising at all. The radiation intensity in the universe is very high - the height of the space station is between 300 and 400 kilometers. This location belongs to low-Earth orbit and is within the protection range of the earth's magnetic field, and the radiation intensity is not high. .

But that's not the case outside the Earth's magnetic field.

Asteroids fly in the starry sky for several months, and the radiation intensity received is quite high. If the white egg shell has no radiation protection ability, how can it take root and sprout after falling on the earth?

The researchers immediately became interested in the eggshell. Through experiments, it was found that the radiation resistance of the eggshell is far beyond human imagination. Even if it is thrown into a nuclear reactor, there will be no radiation inside the eggshell... Of course, this thing It can only block radiation but not high temperature. If it is thrown into the reactor, it will be turned into ashes by high temperature in minutes.

The eggshell is just a windfall in the research on the worm tree, and research on the worm tree itself continues.

After using all the means, there was still no effective way to deal with the insect tree. The laboratory had to change its thinking and no longer deal with the insect tree, but to start with the eggs cultivated by the insect tree.

In addition to being larger, the eggs that have just left the insect tree are ordinary insect eggs, but these eggs do not need any specific environment to hatch, and the incubation speed is not slow. It takes about seven to ten days, and the length of time depends on the outside world. Depending on the environment, even in a high temperature and arid desert, it does not affect the hatching of eggs.

Fortunately, the newly hatched larvae are very fragile, and various pesticides can effectively kill the larvae at this stage, but as long as the larvae have a hard shell after waiting for a few hours, the effect of the pesticides will be greatly reduced. Only highly toxic agents can do the trick.

In order to determine the anti-toxic ability of the larvae, the laboratory even used nerve gas. Although the effect is very good, the toxicity of this thing is too high~www.readwn.com~ No one dares to use it indiscriminately in their own country.

The larvae are about the size of the belly of a finger, but don't underestimate these little things, they have a strong appetite and aggression. Once they hatch successfully, they will immediately sweep the surrounding area and eat all the animals they can find.

The worm tree robs the plant of nutrients, and the larvae eat up the nearby animals, which shows the domineering of this thing.

If they can't find enough food, these little guys will even kill each other, swallowing up their brothers and sisters born together one by one, and the last one or a few remaining are the most ferocious and powerful individuals.

At this time, the biochemical giant can grow to about 30, and initially has the ability to travel far.

Due to the limitation of size, firearms can easily deal with the larvae at this stage, but if the larvae can continue to grow and reach a body length of over one meter, it is difficult for ordinary firearms to penetrate the shell of the biochemical giant.

So far, the laboratory's research on biochemical giant insects has come to an abrupt end. It is not that the laboratory does not want to continue the research, but the biochemical giant insects already have extremely strong attack power. The closed experimental cabin of the laboratory cannot stop the destruction of the biochemical giant insects. . (To be continued.)

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