Chapter 885 Green Light Bees and Plants

"Huiliu is quite sincere and sent over two boxes of bees. Take a look."

Yang Jin sent the video to Xia Qing and asked her to check on the bees. Nominally, this batch of supplies was compensated by Huiliu to the Qinglong team. In order to hide it from others, the bees must be kept in Territory No. 1 first, and then "traded" to Xia Qing after the bees are divided into boxes, so Xia Qing can only watch the video now.

In the video, a person wearing protective clothing opens the beehive. Inside, there are two plates with neatly arranged hexagonal honeycombs on both sides, hanging from the top of the beehive to the bottom. Xia Qing took the time to learn beekeeping during this period and knew that this kind of board is called a nest basket.

After seeing the person in the video taking out the two nest baskets and displaying them separately, Xia Qing asked, "There are only two nest baskets in one box. It looks like there are about 3,000 bees. Is this the middle swarm?"

Hearing Xia Qing ask such a professional question, Yang Jin was secretly glad that he had done enough homework, "After the bees evolved, their aggression and mobility have become stronger. This number was considered a weak group before the natural disaster, but it was indeed considered a strong group after the natural disaster." , most of Huiliu’s beehives are like this Scale. Now no one dares to raise a strong swarm, because once the queen bee evolves, a strong swarm or a super strong swarm of more than 5,000 bees may attack humans under the prompting of the queen bee. It is said that this is the queen bee. It’s twice as big as the queen bee before the natural disaster.”

Xia Qing leaned forward and took a closer look.

If you only look at the hive frame and hive, you cannot tell the size of the queen bee. Because bees have evolved to grow taller, hives have naturally become larger. But compared with the human hand holding the bee frame, you can see that the queen bee crawling slowly on the frame is longer than a human middle finger!

This head is bigger than the worker bee in the chestnut forest on Hill 49.

Xia Qing's eyes brightened, "The bees have grown taller and their ability to produce honey has also increased. This is a good thing."

Yang Jin smiled, "Yes, the honey production capacity has increased, but the feeding cost has also increased, so edible honey is still very expensive."

After speaking, Yang Jin took out four jars of honey from his backpack, two jars were deeper and two jars were shallower.

He opened the light-colored jar first, "This is honey and silver nectar. It sells for 3,000 points per jar at Huiliu Base. It's genuine and hard to find on the market."

A faint fragrance came out of the light yellow honey. Xia Qing took a gentle sniff and said, "This fragrance is very refreshing."

Xia Qing smelled the fragrance of honeysuckle, but Yang Jin smelled the faint medicinal fragrance on her body. This medicinal fragrance was very special. Yang Jin confirmed that it was the first time he smelled it. "The fragrance of honeysuckle is fresh and rich, and it does have a refreshing effect." , Huiliu's side Two types of air filters are added with honeysuckle extract to improve air quality. Among the six jars of honey Huiliu gave us, two jars were honeysuckle honey and four jars of rapeseed honey were all green. Leave two jars of rapeseed nectar?”

According to the terms Xia Qing negotiated with Yang Jin at that time, Yang Jin helped her get six cans of honey from Huiliu, four of which went to Xia Qing and two to Yang Jin.

Xia Qing opened the rapeseed nectar again and smelled it. Because she had raised rapeseed flowers, she was more familiar with the smell of this kind of nectar.

Although both types of nectar have their own advantages, honeysuckle nectar has one more function than rapeseed nectar: ​​detoxification, so honeysuckle nectar of the same quality is more expensive.

If it weren't for Yang Jin, Xia Qing wouldn't be able to get this batch of supplies. She was not such a stingy person, so she directly gave Yang Jin a jar of honeysuckle nectar and a jar of rapeseed nectar.

Yang Jin had already guessed her choice and accepted it happily. Speaking of Yanlong's current situation, "Yanlong's special team was sent to Guiwu Base."

Xia Qing asked, "The nature of the mission is similar to that of Zheng Chen's team sent by Red Eleven to Third Brother's territory?"

Yang Jin shook his head, "Zheng Chen's team's mission is to protect the safety of Zhang San and the laboratory, and will not go out to fight; Yanlong's team is a combat mission, responsible for destroying the evolved sea beasts that attack Gui Wu. This mission is Yanlong's choice. of."

The geological conditions of the Guiwu base are very similar to those of Guisan, which has been swallowed up by the sea. It is very suitable for Yanlong. If she can return safely, she will definitely become stronger.

Yang Jin looked at the worried expression on Xia Qing's face and knew what she was thinking, but did not say anything to comfort her. Instead, he diverted her attention, "Brother Luo will bring the helicopter over tomorrow. How long will he stay in the territory?" God, teach you aerial sniper skills.”

The Qinglong Team obtained two helicopters, one was placed at the Qinglong Team headquarters in the safe zone, and the other was placed in Territory No. 1. In order to make the helicopter in Territory No. 1 more legitimate, Yang Jin and Xia Qing discussed letting the Bearded Feng team take on the task of regularly patrolling the northern evolutionary forest.

As Hu Feng's "girlfriend", Xia Qing can of course fly on planes in her free time and go to the northern evolutionary forest to learn flying, parachuting and aerial sniper skills.

Xia Qing was very happy when she heard that Luo Pei was coming, which made Yang Jin feel sour. He coughed and asked, "If you keep bees, what plants do you plan to plant?"

Xia Qing understood immediately after hearing this, "Did Team Yang get flowers that can be used for beekeeping from Huiliu?"

Yang Jin smiled shrewdly, "Well, I bought honeysuckle, saplings from Yebazi, and Pilora japonica seeds. They are all green. Do you want to buy some?"

This is really what heroes think alike.

After Kuang Qingwei and Qi Fu proposed beekeeping last year, Xia Qing's allies have been discussing on the Lord Channel what plants should be planted for bees to collect nectar during non-rapeseed flowering periods. Among the plants everyone selected, there are also the three mentioned by Yang Jin.

During natural disasters, plants in the wild have mixed red, yellow and green lights, making it difficult to control the quality of honey collected by free-range bees. Therefore, the edible honey at each base is collected by bees from the flowers of greenhouse-raised plants.

Since it is a greenhouse, you cannot choose tall woody plants. You can only choose short herbs, shrubs or vines that can control the height of the plants with flowers rich in nectar and long flowering periods, and they must be green light plants.

Because to produce green light honey, green light plants must be planted, and the bees that collect nectar to make honey must also be green light. Once there is yellow light quality in plants and bees, the honey produced will be yellow light or even red light, which is also the main reason for the high price of edible honey during natural disasters.

Honeysuckle is a vine with a flowering period from May to October; wild dams are semi-shrubs that can grow to more than one meter high and have a flowering period from September to January; Bidens pilosa is a herbaceous plant with a flowering period from August to September. These three plants, plus the rapeseed flowers planted in the territory with a flowering period from February to April, can ensure that there are flowers in the territory for bees to collect nectar all year round.

There are green lantern honeysuckle in Xin Yu's greenhouse. When the Territory Alliance team went out to collect them, they had already found green lantern wild dams and Bidens pilosa, so Xia Qing already had all three plants.

Moreover, Xia Qing had already spread a large area of ​​Bidens pilosa seeds in the greenhouse where the rice seedlings were grown, and planted more than 40 green lantern wild dams.

But of course, the more green lantern plants, the better. Xia Qing cheered up and asked the brother of Broken Waist Wolf who was sitting opposite him, "I really need these three plants. What price do you plan to sell them at?" (End of this chapter)