Day by day in the infinite game
67. Crazy invasive species (10)
The disaster-stricken area this time is a recently built botanical park with a vast area and complete infrastructure and entertainment facilities. It has rich flowers, plants and trees, a wide variety of vegetation, and beautiful scenery. The local urban development department and developers originally planned to turn it into a park.
Build new city landmarks and tourist attractions.
Due to the good publicity, the park attracted a large number of citizens and foreign tourists in the early days of its opening, who came here to visit, take photos and check in. Indeed, as the planners expected, it brought a lot of attention and traffic.
But the good times did not last long. Less than three months after the opening, there were frequent reports of park visitors being injured and hospitalized. This attracted a lot of attention in the news media and on the Internet. The families of the injured and hospitalized also asked the relevant persons in charge of the relevant departments to provide help.
Speak up and give compensation.
The relevant responsible departments had to suspend the opening of the park, start inspection and rectification of the internal environment of the park, and promised to provide reasonable compensation to injured tourists once the situation is verified.
However, you don’t know if you don’t check. After a thorough inspection, it was found that there are indeed major problems - there are many traces of red fire ants on the park grass, in the green belts, and even in the woods, especially the former, almost the entire area.
The grass is full of red fire ant colonies.
The grassland is almost full of small soil bags that have just risen from the surface. The soil particles on the surface are finely divided and uniform, indicating that they are newly built ant nests. The shape is not obvious, so they have not been discovered by the park's greening managers.
After careful inspection, it was found that there were many ant nests, and an unknown number of female winged breeding ants completed the ant breeding event at high altitude, flew to other places to build nests and produce offspring. In this way, the red fire ant population continued to spread outward.
Expansion is very difficult to deal with.
"Wow, this place is really nice! The scenery is really nice." When they saw the mission destination, all the players couldn't help but marvel.
It is located south of the river, with a warm and humid climate. It is mostly distributed in evergreen broad-leaved forests, also mixed with deciduous broad-leaved forests. The forest vegetation is rich in variety and biodiversity.
The trees, flowers, and turf in the park here are basically purchased from all around. They are full of different shades of green, colorful, and equally vibrant. It is indeed a botanical park with a pleasant scenery.
However, after repeated inspections, it was discovered that the problem lies in the purchased flowers, trees and green turf.
It was the undetected red fire ants carried in the soil that were moved here due to human activities. They have never been discovered and have no other natural enemies. They quickly adapted to the new environment and began to reproduce rapidly.
expansion.
Their existence was not discovered until a wounding incident occurred and the park was closed for investigation.
"This is a big project." Looking at the new fire ant nests scattered on the grass and in the woods, the players couldn't help but feel their scalps numb.
This is different from the previous situation where the anthills were tall and mature, and the ants were concentrated, and they could concentrate their efforts to defeat them one by one. Now the ant colonies are more scattered, and they divide their territories. Although such an ant nest with not many ant colonies looks like a nest.
It is easy and effortless, but it is easy to step on other ant nests, causing the fire ants in them to attack.
"Hi, hello!" While the players were thinking about a more secure strategy, three strangers carrying backpacks approached and took the initiative to say hello to everyone.
"Hello, what is this?" Dong Mingzhe was confused in his heart. The garden has been closed, so why are there other people coming in? They don't look like gardeners or the person in charge of the park.
"Ah, we are here to take pictures. The scenery here is beautiful and we like it very much." A young man in red wearing a peaked cap shook the camera in his hand, "Are you doing the same?"
"We are not, but isn't this place closed and temporarily open? You can still come in?"
Lao Tian looked at the heavy backpacks on their backs, looking more like they were carrying equipment for a picnic.
"Hey, you didn't sneak in here. The scenery here is so beautiful, and there are not many people around so you can take photos." After winking at Lao Tian, the three teenagers turned around and prepared to continue walking inside.
"Wait a minute," Lao Tian stopped them at Song Yuanze's instruction, "Do you know why this place was closed? Are you not afraid?"
"Hey, brother, I'm not afraid to tell you. We are just here to explore. What are we afraid of? We just got bitten by bugs. There are no bugs anywhere. Don't worry, we brought deworming medicine."
Sure enough, the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers and came here for excitement. However, as he said, the injured tourist was stung by fire ants.
"Have you ever heard of fire ants? It is now clear from the investigation that those tourists who were sent to the hospital for treatment were bitten by fire ants. Serious cases can lead to anaphylactic shock or even death. Are you sure you want to go in?"
Lao Tian really wants to give these ignorant young men in front of him a severe beating from society.
Really disobedient.
"Then what are you doing here? Aren't you afraid?"
The young man had the same look on his face. Why should you say that to me?
Lao Tian was just about to continue his education when he heard the boss calling him, so he waved his hand and told the young man to leave here quickly.
"It's not safe here now, please be obedient and get out quickly."
Saying that, he quickly ran towards his boss.
"what happened?"
Song Yuanze spoke.
"Boss, these three little guys are here for excitement. They come here even though they know there is a problem. They are very courageous." Lao Tian pinched his itchy fist.
If that was his younger brother, he would definitely not be polite to let them feel the love from his older brother.
There is no consciousness of staying away from danger at all.
"Pay more attention. Since they are interested in this place, they will chase them away once and there will be another time. There is no way to stop them. We should solve the target as soon as possible."
After speaking, Song Yuanze walked towards the temporary player meeting group and continued the meeting.
"According to the information just obtained, red imported imported fire ants cover a large area in this park, accounting for almost more than half. The other areas that have not been invaded are basically the infrastructure and exhibition halls in the center of the park. But we must not forget that red imported fire ants will
To destroy underground communications, electricity, etc., we have to act quickly and try to eliminate them before they cause more damage."
Dong Mingzhe looked at the group representatives. "Should we start with the seriously affected grassland or clean up the surrounding scattered areas first? Do you have any good ideas?"
"I think we should clean up the grass first. The ant nests are concentrated here. Once we get rid of these big heads, the rest will be a piece of cake."
Yang Qing expressed her position and then continued: "The question is how we should cooperate so that we can avoid other ant nests without stepping on them, and without affecting the progress of the mission."
It’s not that I haven’t thought of other methods, such as using medicine, fire attacks, and technical prevention and control.
However, these methods are effective, but they also have drawbacks. Even if the dosage of pesticides is controlled, it will affect the survival of local ants to a certain extent. Fire attack is the last resort. After all, fire can kill ants, burn down a park, and destroy a piece of woodland.
The cost is too high. Technical prevention and control are too slow to bear fruit for the current situation.
Tang Qinqin walked around boredly with Obsidian.
She was also invited to a temporary meeting of players, but she refused.
"Little Shitou, do you have any way to catch them all?"
"How about we just bite the bullet and seek happiness for ourselves?"
While thinking wildly, I walked towards the bridge in the middle of the lake in the park.
From here, you can see other players not far away when you look back, and you don't have to worry about being left behind.
"What a beautiful fish." Tang Qinqin praised.
In the lake under the bridge, many red, yellow, white or two-color koi were swimming and flapping, making it very lively.
"Crack." There was an unusual sound, and Tang Qinqin turned around alertly.
"Ah, I'm sorry, little sister, I took a photo of you without your consent. It was so beautiful just now, I couldn't help it..."
One of the three teenagers he had just met, a boy wearing a white T-shirt and glasses, was caught red-faced by Tang Qinqin.
It was rare to see such a cute and shy young man. Tang Qinqin felt soft-hearted and did not mind the offense just now. He only took two steps forward and asked him: "Can I have a look?"
"Well, here..."
Tang Qinqin took it.
I have to say that the angle of this photo was taken at a good time. It just happened to capture her just leaning over to look at the koi fish in the lake and being slightly amazed. In the lens, Tang Qinqin has long hair slightly flowing, and her profile is soft and graceful.
The atmosphere is very peaceful and gentle.
"Okay, it's a good photo." Tang Qinqin handed the camera back to him after reading the photo.
Tang Qinqin: o(≧v≦)o looks good. Satisfied.
"Ah, little sister, may I ask, is this your pet?"
------Digression-----
It's so hot.
The sweat is almost flowing into a river.
Tomorrow is another new week, I wish you all good luck and happiness!
I would like to express my gratitude to the little cuties who have always encouraged and supported me.
??(ˊwˋ*)??I’m glad to have you~
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