Chapter 260 Natural Enemies
"What's going on with these...they's the matter?" Although they were far apart, Zhang Qian's voice was still a little trembling. After saying that, she patted her chest with lingering fear.
When she came over to fold the reed tube just now, she didn't pay attention to her feet at all. When she reached out, she found a toad with a size of a bowl in front of her. At that time, she was so scared that she didn't have any blood on her face. She opened her mouth for a minute and did not scream.
When I had the strength on my body, I wanted to turn around and leave quietly, but when I turned my head, my legs became even weaker: there were so many toads around me.
Fearing that shouting would cause their reaction, Zhang Qian could only take out her cell phone from her pocket and make a call in a low voice.
If Liu Junhao hadn't answered the phone, she would have collapsed on the ground in a few minutes.
"I don't know, these guys may have hid in the reed pile in winter and hibernated. Now the weather is warm and they have just crawled out of it." This is the only explanation that Liu Junhao could think of. However, when he thought of the toad hidden in the reed pile, he felt a little scared.
"I dare not pick honey from now on." Until now, Zhang Qian's hand is still holding his shoulder tightly.
"Don't worry, when the weather is warmer, they will jump out of the yard to catch insects. Otherwise, why didn't we see toads last summer..." Liu Junhao patted her hand and comforted her quietly, and suddenly stared at the toads in surprise, "Hey, why are they..."
Perhaps because I felt that there was no danger in front of me, the toads jumped again. First, the one on the reed pole suddenly jumped up, and then the few underground jumped upwards.
If they had never expected that the toad had such a strong jumping ability. The leader jumped forty or fifty centimeters high. However, the reed pole was too elastic. Before it could squat, it had already fallen head-on and fell on the ground with a "thump".
The toad fell to pieces and tumbling on the ground for a long time before twisting his body. However, he did not seem to be discouraged, but continued to jump up along the reed piles. It seemed like he was going up the stairs, jumping up layer by layer. After a few seconds, he jumped to more than one meter again, and several other toads followed closely behind.
This thing is so strange. Not only Liu Junhao was curious, but even Zhang Qian forgot his fear for a while and stared at the toads.
Liu Junhao observed it very carefully. Yes, it was no different from the toads commonly found in ditches and ponds. Their eyes were slightly red and their bodies were covered with yellow-gray concave convexity. It was patina, which contained milky white venom.
If you really want to say that there is a difference, it is that it is a little bigger. But this is not unusual. Liu Junhao remembers that he had seen it under the willow tree bent by the pond.
Without exception, the leading toad fell from the reed pile again. Then, as if it was a game diving, the remaining few "plop" fell to the ground immediately after it.
As before, they continued to climb to the top of the reed pile without caring about the two people watching with their mouths open.
Resilience is enough. If it weren't for this guy being too ugly, Liu Junhao would have almost described it as words such as not being afraid of hardships and being brave to climb.
However, this time the toad jumped to the top of the reed pole, swayed for a few times, and finally stood firm. The guy rested at the top of the reed pole for a while, then moved his limbs carefully and crawled towards the sun little by little.
Noon is the best time of the day, and the sun shines on it with the smoked sunlight is particularly comfortable, but both of them are attracted by the strange scene in front of them... What exactly does the toad want to do? Liu Junhao's mind is very fast, but he didn't see anything attracting them on the reed stack.
"Buzz..." Many buzz bees collecting honey outside flap their wings and flew back. In early spring, there were not many flowers outside, so they had to fly far to collect honey.
When the bumblebee fell on the reed pole, the toad that was originally still suddenly reacted. It stretched out its tongue and rolled it up. In the surprise of the two, a bumblebee was swallowed into its stomach.
No... the toads eat bumblebees! They realized that they couldn't believe it for a moment.
This is the first time Liu Junhao has encountered such a thing. In his perception, these two creatures have nothing to do with each other and cannot be beaten. Moreover, the sting needle on the tail of the bumblebee is also highly toxic. Isn’t the toad afraid?
Seeing that guy squirming his jaw and no response for a while, a word popped up in Liu Junhao's mind: Use poison to fight poison. Isn't it because of this that the toad is fearless of the sting needle.
The toads that jumped onto the reed pile were not afraid of being seen, but just sucked their tongues and hunted tempting food. The poor bumblebee was busy for a long time, looking at the door of the house, but unexpectedly they met a killer. In less than three minutes, nearly twenty bumblebee were entering their stomachs.
It's a bit too rampant. This is the first time I have seen such blatant stealing behavior. I really think the master doesn't exist. I didn't say anything, so I must make these guys look good later.
Liu Junhao snorted coldly, turned back to the front yard to get a shovel.
"Be careful, they are beneficial animals, just get them out." Zhang Qian saw her husband swinging the shovel fiercely, and hurriedly reminded her.
He fainted, and remembered that it was harmful and beneficial. Liu Junhao had to admire her. However, he did not intend to do anything about these toads, but he was only going to throw them outside with a shovel.
He was careful when he shoveled it with a shovel, for fear that the venom would splash on his body. Although this thing looked small, it was also one of the five poisons. I heard someone telling me that someone in Daqingshan caught a toad and sold it for money, and accidentally splashed the toad cream into his eyes. In the end, he spent more than 10,000 yuan to look at his eyes.
Although Liu Junhao didn't know whether this was true or not, it would be better to be careful in everything.
But those guys were not obedient, and were shocked by his shovel and fled in all directions. Several of them even jumped into the ditch and disappeared.
"Ah... I'll fight, don't let them eat our eel seedlings." Seeing this situation, Zhang Qian immediately became nervous, no matter what beneficial animals were.
How to fight? Seeing those guys disappear on the water, Liu Junhao also looked depressed.
When this happened, Zhang Qian stopped talking about eating honey, but when she thought of the toads in her yard, she felt awkward and kept urging her husband to find a way to catch them all and throw them away.
"It's okay, this toad looks a little ugly, but it's nothing. I've seen someone eat it raw before." Liu Junhao smiled and comforted.
"Nothing nonsense, who would eat this food raw?" Zhang Qian clearly didn't believe it. Just thinking about it, she couldn't eat it just by seeing that food, let alone eating it raw.
"Haha, this is really happening, and the protagonist is Liu Qiyong." When he thought of that past, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Ignorance is fearless, and children are generally brave. I remember that in the summer of that year, someone went to the village to collect toads, five cents each. At that time, he and Liu Qiyong wanted to get some money to buy candy, so they discussed skipping school to catch toads.
The tools prepared before departure were very complete. One person took a piece of bamboo pole and then looked for a toad along the ditch. It was strange that day. When I was not caught, I could see the toad everywhere, but it was gone when I was searching. After walking along the ditch for a long time, Liu Junhao caught a very small toad in the crack of the rock.
When they thought that they could exchange for five cents, both of them were so surprised that they could not do it, so they quickly put the thing into the bamboo tube. He also specifically reminded Liu Qiyong to take good care of the bamboo tube and not let the toad escape.
Then the two of them found nothing for more than ten minutes. Seeing that Liu Qiyong was covering the bamboo tube very hard, Liu Junhao remembered that the toad seemed to have to breathe. If you don’t cover it for such a long time, it would be worthless. Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked Liu Qiyong to let go of the gap and see if the toad died?
Liu Qiyong let go of his hand and found that the little toad was squatting at the bottom of the bamboo tube without moving. He was panicked at that time and hurriedly opened his mouth and blew it in.
Unexpectedly, the toad, who had no movement, suddenly jumped up, and jumped into Liu Qiyong's mouth. Then, for some reason, he sucked it directly into his stomach.
Liu Qiyong suddenly cried and stretched out his hands to pull it into his mouth. Liu Junhao was so nervous that he couldn't do it at the time, so the two of them hurried back to school to find the teacher.
After hearing this, the teacher also felt that the situation was serious and hurriedly asked a classmate to go home to get vinegar, garlic cloves, etc. for Liu Qiyong to eat.
After a long time of struggle, nothing was spit out.
Fortunately, this guy didn't have any adverse reactions after eating, so he still skipped class the next day.
"You are so brave, you even dare to eat toads alive." After hearing him, Zhang Qian couldn't help laughing. Her fear of toads was also greatly alleviated.
I originally thought that these guys were doing it occasionally, but when he arrived at the backyard in the afternoon, he found that the toads were squatting on the reed piles without pulling. Seeing that their belly was bulging, it was obvious that there were a lot of buzz bees eaten at noon.
Liu Junhao felt distressed when he saw it, so he quickly picked up the stick and knocked them all away. However, in less than ten minutes, they gathered under the reed pile again.
This is not a solution. It is estimated that in a few days, the bumblebees in the yard will be fumbled by them.
Liu Junhao turned over and took a net bag. After a few strokes, the toad was caught.
He kept carrying the net bag to the river beach before he breathed a sigh of relief and letting them all out.
When he got home, Liu Junhao was idle and searched the Internet for information about toads and bumblebees.
After checking, I realized that I was in the dark. This thing is the natural enemy of bees, and beekeepers have a headache when they see a toad. They like to eat bees very much. As long as they find a beehive, they will stay there. A big toad can eat dozens or even one or two hundred bees in one night, which is very serious.
It seems that you should be vigilant in the future and don’t let them get into the backyard again.
Chapter completed!