Vol 5 Chapter 213: Ecological imbalance

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At noon on Friday, after the alchemy class, after having lunch, and five minutes before twelve o'clock, Zheng Qing came to the gate of the Baicao Garden early to prepare for the last volunteer work this week.
There are a total of five hours for the night tour of Linzhong Lake, and the average is allocated to three days, almost one and a half hours a day.
Forty minutes at noon and forty minutes in the afternoon.
Originally there were more than 40 minutes of work this afternoon, but in order to avoid the need to rest after the practical class, Zheng Qing worked hard yesterday afternoon. Therefore, after this work at noon today, the replacement work for the Saturday night tour was complete. ended.
Compared with the summer and autumn seasons, the big oak tree at the entrance of Baicao Garden has become a lot more gloomy, the oak leaves are dimmed, and the two-tailed squirrels running between the branches are gone.
Zheng Qing looked up his neck for a long while, but never saw those lively little guys. He originally prepared a handful of peanuts, intending to supplement them with nutrition.
"I'm so kind." The wizard thought of the old story of being smashed in the head with a nut by a squirrel when he came to Baicao Garden for the first time. He couldn't help but sighed with a good feeling about himself.
Just after twelve o'clock, the'temporary school workers' who came to work began to arrive one after another.
The leader was naturally the old school worker Stangda, who was in charge of the Baicao Garden, and, beyond Zheng Qing's expectation, Mr. Li Qihuang, a professor of potions, also appeared at the entrance of the garden. As for the others at the scene, they looked familiar, but Zheng Qing could not name most of them. He should also be a student of Jiuyou College.
However, those students clearly recognized Zheng Qing's identity, whispering to each other, whispering, and nodding at Zheng Qing from time to time, showing curious eyes and a kind smile. As if encouraging him silently.
Zheng Qing would rather they patted his shoulder hard and greeted him carelessly.
Under this somewhat embarrassing atmosphere, he changed into dragon skin overalls and deerskin gloves, slowly moved to the side of Professor Li and Old Stendhal, waiting for instructions.
"Everyone should be clear about today's work."
After the crowd gathered, the old Stendhal called the name and began to preach "All have taken pharmacy class and entered the Baicao Garden. I won't say more about the precautions."
"Two tasks."
"First, artificial pollination, help a few herbs in the garden to do the pollination work. Because there are more bees missing recently, many herbs are almost past the flowering period; second, it is to track the bees in the garden to see how they disappeared. Where is it."
"Students in charge of artificial pollination, be careful not to be scared by the passing earth dragons or the running rabbits. There are no wild monsters in the garden. They are all herbs. The most dangerous are just a few big-mouthed gurgs, all in the glass room. So don’t frighten yourself and trample on my herbs."
Upon hearing this slightly teasing warning, the students let out a low laugh.
"Besides, if you find thorny thorns on the ridges of the field, there is no doubt that they are all weeds. You can clean them up and you can't go wrong."
Zheng Qing entered the Baicao Garden for the first time to clean up the thorns, but he did not expect to do this kind of thing after so long. Sure enough, there is nothing new under the sun, and the Baicao Garden usually does this kind of repetitive work.
Old Stendhal continued to give orders
"Students who are responsible for tracking the traces of bees, pay attention to the direction in which they eventually disappear. Remember to look through the hive. Although the previous spot checks did not find large areas of death, this possibility is not completely ruled out."
"There are a total of ten bee colonies, which belong to different categories. Each of you only needs to be responsible for the investigation of one bee colony. The specific content will be arranged by Professor Li later...Are there any questions?"
Everyone shook their heads.
The old man looked back at Professor Li.
Professor Li nodded, opened the notepad in his hand, and began to roll out the tasks.
Fortunately, this time Zheng Qing didn't need to think about damaging flowers and plants during pollination, or scratching his fingers when cleaning up thorns. He was assigned by the professor to investigate the missing bees.
"Before assigning tasks, I need to let you know the situation in detail."
Professor Li led everyone to a bee colony and opened a beehive. The milky white eggs, fat queen bee, and wriggling young bees in the hive were all in their nests.
However, Zheng Qing keenly discovered that in such a large bee colony, only a few worker bees are working hard to collect nectar. According to their capabilities, they cannot meet the needs of the entire bee colony.
"As you can see, most of the worker bees in this colony have disappeared. This is abnormal."
Professor Li’s voice is always so light and fluttering. Zheng Qing tried to distinguish every word he said.
Under normal circumstances, worker bees were born, grew up, and died in Sri Lanka. They were born and grew up in the beehive, and they lived around the beehive. Collect honey from flowers and sleep in the cemetery behind the hives-dead worker bees will be carried by their companions to the cemetery of bees."
"But as in the case of this beehive, most of the worker bees go out to gather honey and never return."
"No return to the beehive. No permanent sleep in the cemetery. Even in the nearby flower source, there are no traces of the death of a large number of bees."
"This is abnormal." Professor Li hissed lightly and shook his head.
"Could it be some extinct disease?" A thin and tall boy raised his glasses and asked, "For example, acute paralysis of the Mediterranean bee colony. This disease has rapid spreading, high incidence, and infection. The bee colony of this disease will lose its judgment of direction and eventually get lost in the wild."
"Very sensitive." Professor Li nodded his head appreciatively, but then denied that "The health of the bee colony is monitored in real time by multiple magic rune arrays. If the bees are sick, they will be detected immediately. Because of the possibility of large-scale epidemics. Very low. We have repeatedly sorted out these diseases including acute paralysis of the Mediterranean bee colony, Assam bee virus, and poplar nectar spores in the early stage, and we have not found similar cases."
"So these bees were eaten by monsters?" A little fat man smiled and poked the creeping larvae in the beehive~EbookFREE.me~ which means you just didn't listen carefully. "Professor Li glanced at him, and said slowly, "Uncle Stendhal just mentioned before that there is nothing more dangerous than Grumbling Mouth in the garden...You can rest assured of this. "
The little fat man grinned, put his hands behind him, and honestly stopped speaking.
Professor Li turned his attention to other students
"In fact, according to what we have now, these bee disappearances are very likely to be one of a series of cases of ecological imbalance on Phuket Island... Including the early resumption of silence at the end of last year, the rat disaster, and this year’s insect plague and green worms. and many more."
"You only need to record the contents of your investigation in detail, and other matters will be handled by more professional people."
"Before following the bee colony, I need to emphasize once again that discipline is first, to listen to the teacher's instructions; second, not to move; third, to listen to the teacher's instructions not to move!"
"start to act!"