Laws of the Insect Hive

The fifteen-centimeter toad in front of him made System tremble, similar to the last time he encountered the little mantis.

His [insect intuition] played a strong role again, System's pair of thighs in charge of bouncing had accumulated tremendous power, and the instinct from his body urged him to jump and escape immediately.

"An [insect intuition] that jumps to escape as soon as it detects danger?"

"This time, my intuition was counterproductive..."

System forcibly suppressed the power of his [Insect Intuition], and the derivative skill [Insect Intuition] was simple and effective, which could avoid most dangers and greatly increase the survival rate of the grasshopper group.

But this intuition obviously doesn't apply to Toad.

If the toads in this world had the same habits as the toads in System’s previous life, playing bouncing in front of the toads would definitely be courting death.

System could guarantee that as long as he took off now, he would be sucked into the stomach by the toad's tongue and turn into a thick pool of water in the toad's gastric juice.

The Habits of Toads and Frogs System just knew from his memory that they liked moving food and had no interest in dead things.

System seems to have kept frogs as pets in a previous life. Sometimes the mealworms he bought were inactive or dead, and he would tie a rope to the bugs to tease the frogs.

Facing the toad in front of him, System knew that the best thing to do was to keep still, because things that were still had no attraction to the toad.

Forcibly suppressing the [insect intuition] that wanted him to jump away immediately, System's abdominal breathing gradually slowed down, and he once again entered a semi-dormant state...

While System was waiting for Toad to leave, the previous "Ant Search Team" gradually came to the vicinity of it and Toad.

The team of ants apparently did not find the toad hidden in the dead leaves, and was still searching for possible food among the dead branches and leaves.

Whoosh!

The dynamic vision of the insect's compound eyes is very powerful, but the toad's tongue is obviously faster. System saw the tongue in the toad's mouth disappear in a flash, and an ant about twenty centimeters away from the toad disappeared.

Half a dead leaf spewed out of the toad's mouth, which must have been accidentally stuck in the mouth when preying on the ants with its tongue.

The impact of the toad's tongue against the dead leaves on the ground alerted a few ants, who moved faster, crawling around to search for the unusual place that caused the dead leaves to vibrate.

However, it didn't take long for several ants to be preyed on by the toad's tongue one after another. Only one ant escaped because of the different directions of searching and gradually walked away.

Even in the face of an unreasonable and strange crisis, these ants are not at all timid, and they do not know whether it is their low IQ or their habits.

Should be a habit.

System recalled a scene in a documentary from a previous life, where even in the face of their natural enemies, an anteater thousands of times their size, the ants would charge without flinching.

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It was not until noon that the toad in front of System began to leave.

During this period, the toad ate more than a dozen ants one after another, as well as several flying insects similar to bees and a huge dragonfly.

After Toad left, System, who was out of danger, finally had the chance to eat.

Eating and growing were the survival instincts flowing in the grasshopper's blood, and it was also what System decided to do after thinking about it at night.

Insects like grasshoppers, which depend on fecundity, have a survival rate that is dozens of times lower than that of adults in the larval stage, so he must grow as soon as possible to become an adult as soon as possible, so that his survival rate can be improved.

After releasing his body's dormant state, System pinpointed a direction and jumped carefully.

The jumping of the grasshopper is somewhat similar to the feeling of a human being on a roller coaster, but the grasshopper is not a human being. During the jumping process, System felt that his body was like a machine. There was no abnormality, and he could be very calm. Check out the oddities around you.

On the first plant he jumped to, System found two white flowers at the top. The flowers were about five centimeters in diameter, because the distance was too far to see the shape first.

System had an idea and decided to collect nectar. If he wanted his body to grow quickly, he needed nutritious food, and nectar was obviously a good choice.

Not only that, System also wants to taste the taste of nectar. He can eat the leaves of plants that taste slightly bitter to humans, just like fruits, so what kind of nectar tastes sweet in his mouth when he eats it. ?

System is looking forward to it.

On the way to the flowers, System, who was walking cautiously, encountered five small white and translucent bugs. These little bugs had the same six legs as him, which should be a type of insect.

They are small, only 0.2-0.3 cm, about half of his body.

These small bugs use their unique mouthparts to destroy the plant wall, and at the same time suck the slightly cloudy sap from these plant wall wounds.

They were obviously herbivorous insects that liked peace, and System was not polite. He directly used his strong body to squeeze a small bug away to devour the juice collected by these small bugs.

As System had expected, this little bug was not a social insect resembling an ant. After seeing System's strong body, the little bug that he pushed away quickly escaped.

The other few ignored System’s actions and continued to suck the sap of the plants. Obviously, they didn’t recognize System as a threat to them.

After System saw the performance of these little bugs, he began to devour the juice of this plant. The taste of the juice was very good, similar to the mango juice he drank in his previous life.

Only after continuing to snatch the juice made by the two little bugs, the remaining little bugs all escaped one after another.

System tried to bite at the wound of the plant wall a few times, but found that the plant wall stopped flowing juice after the little bugs left. It is estimated that it is the unique ability of these little bugs to make the plant wound flow. Maybe they The mouthparts infuse the plant with some special biological concoction.

Abandoning this sap, System used the barbs on his feet to quickly climb over the flowers.

The flowers are larger than what he observed at the bottom of the plant, with a diameter of about seven or eight centimeters, and a shape similar to a chrysanthemum.

The stamens in the center of the flower were dense and sturdy. System tried to clean these stamens with his chelating teeth, but in the end, the stamens were still too hard for his chelating teeth.

The shallow nectar under the stamens has been ingested by the bees. If these stamens cannot be cleaned up, the deeper nectar can only rely on the straw that comes with the butterfly.

Having no choice but to leave the two flowers, System tried to eat some mature leaves.

The taste of mature leaves is similar to that of young leaves, and the effect on his growth is similar, but it is very laborious to chop this kind of leaves with its soft claws, and the efficiency is more than three times worse.

If he only eats this kind of mature leaves, the speed of eating may not be as fast as the speed of digestion. It will undoubtedly make him hungry more and more. System can only give up. It seems that he can only eat this kind of leaves. Wait for his first molt.

And just as System continued to jump and observe the danger.

System found hundreds of pale green and crystal clear insect eggs on the back of a leaf, and his insect head unconsciously showed a greedy look...

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Grasshoppers' diet is not limited to grasses. When plagued by hunger, they will also eat some meat, even young ones.