Chapter 497

Use insects to cure insects

Lao Shang just rented a house in Liujiagou before the New Year. Recently, even his wife-in-law called him over and planned to completely retire in Liujiagou. [The latest updates are all available in the search.]

The couple usually have more free time, so it’s better to raise a bird to disturb them.

He took the little Dujuan and happily picked it up, but the next day he came to Liu Junhao with a sad face.

"Xiao Hao, you should raise this bird yourself. Yesterday, I hid in the cardboard box and didn't move. I didn't eat anything. I even gave it some broken egg yolks, but I didn't even look at it. I thought that this bird was wild and might like to eat insects. I caught a few crickets last night, but this little thing was still indifferent. If I keep it, I guess I won't starve to death in two days." In just one day, the little cuckoo had become dead, and Lao Shang sighed helplessly.

"I'm dizzy. I forgot to tell you yesterday that this bird doesn't need to be fed. You just poke a few holes as thick as a thumb in the cardboard box and hang it under the tree. In less than twenty days, the little cuckoo will definitely fly." Liu Junhao patted his head and said.

"Hang under the tree... how can it eat it?" Lao Shang asked in confusion.

"As I said, there will definitely be other birds to feed them. Just be careful, and this bird will definitely not be hungry." Liu Junhao promised repeatedly.

"Really, you are not fooling me, are you?" Lao Shang still disbelief.

"Is it true that you can just wait and try it back to the village next time? If it doesn't work, come and find me again." Liu Junhao waved his hand and sent him away directly. There was just a dujuan, and this man really took it as a treasure. He didn't see the large group of green villages in his yard, and he had never taken care of it, and he was still alive.

Lao Shang returned to the village half-believingly, and according to the method taught by Liu Junhao, he cut a few small dongs on the cardboard box with a knife, and then hung them on the jujube branches in the yard.

This jujube tree was just planted last year, only one person is more than one person tall, so it is just right to hang a bird box.

After the bird box was hung, he moved a chair and sat under the tree to guard it. The little cuckoo on his head kept screaming, but after more than half an hour, no other birds arrived.

Seeing that there was no hope, Lao Shang had to turn around and watch TV.

Less than ten minutes after seeing it, my daughter-in-law shouted in the yard and asked him to come out and see the little cuckoo.

What a good guy, Liu Junhao really said it.

Two gray hemps fell on the bird box, and one bird had a dragonfly on its beak and stuffed it into the mouth of the bird box. The little cuckoo was more excited to stretch his neck out of the bird box as if he had seen a long-lost relative.

However, their noisy shocked the two gray hemps, and then flapped their wings and flew to the big poplar tree not far away, and they didn't dare to come down for a long time.

The little Dujuan screamed even more powerfully. Lao Shang knew that he was annoying, so he had to turn around and leave.

As soon as he entered the house, the gray hemp thorn fell on the bird box again.

The little guy shouted and put his head to the dong's mouth, stretching his mouth so hard that the elder was long. Gray Maza quickly beat the food into its mouth. The little dujuan finally made a satisfying squeak and swallowed the food in one gulp.

Lao Shang was amazed at the window. When the two gray hemps flew away, he remembered that he forgot to take a photo as a souvenir.

But there is no need to regret. Amid the little Dujuan's scream, another white-headed little fly out soon.

The bird looked around and fell on the bird box. It didn't know what it was holding in its mouth and fed the little cuckoo and then spread its wings and flew away.

Now Lao Shang is completely relieved. It seems that the little guy can't starve to death.

The couple kept taking pictures with their cameras all morning. Finally, he counted roughly and found that there were four or five kinds of birds holding food for the little cuckoo.

This little cuckoo became strange. Many familiar people around came to visit, but the more they looked at it, the more puzzled the group, they couldn't figure out why other birds came to feed each other. Could it be that the birds also learned to help each other?

They were discussing, and Ermazi happened to pass by, and Lao Shang immediately grabbed him and asked.

"What's so strange about this? You're so strange. Haven't you heard of 'Jing Cuckoo, stupid red-mouthed yu'?" Ermazi knew this thing too well and explained, "This kind of bird is obviously born. It never feeds its own children. It lays eggs in the nests of other birds for people to hatch. The birds come out and call it imitates other birds. The sound is very similar, so it can naturally attract other birds to come and feed it."

Children who have dug bird nests in rural areas know that young birds will definitely die if they cannot be kept for three days after they leave old birds. Only this kind of cuckoo does not even need to be raised after they are caught. They will be tied up and placed on the branches and will not starve to death.

"So that's it. No wonder Liu Junhao said he didn't need to feed him." The bird was raising it for easy trouble, and Lao Shang finally felt relieved.

As the summer heat dropped a few minutes in the afternoon, He Yifan took a bamboo pole and hit the cicada shell.

Liu Junhao and his wife didn't go anywhere and just stayed at home.

Now everything is centered on children. The two little guys are very good at jingling. They are making noise all day long and don’t give them any free time.

Zhang Qian looked for a movie on the computer, and the couple stayed in the house for an afternoon. It was not until the summer heat subsided in the evening that Liu Junhao got in and started cooking.

It was hot, so he didn't want to make a fire, so he directly boiled some mung bean soup in an electric rice cooker, and then cooled the vegetables to finish it. As for the two yellowish skins in the yard, he threw two big steamed buns for them to eat.

The couple had dinner only past seven o'clock and it was not dark yet.

So each person and a chair, holding the little guy in his arms, sat in the pavilion to enjoy the cool air.

The older the baby is, the more interesting it is. In less than four months, the second-year-old and old have already started to learn to make noise. As long as the adults watch them talk, the two little guys will keep laughing.

Seeing their family coming out to enjoy the cool air, Professor Zhao and his wife also walked over with a palm-leaf fan.

Usually, when Zhang Qian and Liu Junhao have something to do, they ask Professor Zhao and others to help take care of the children, so the two little guys refuse to accept the child. Seeing Professor Zhao stretching out his hands and greeting him.

They were talking and laughing, but they saw Liu Qiyong walking from the river embankment with a gauze cage.

"Qiyong, you won't catch crickets on the river beach, come and rest for a while and eat a melon." Liu Junhao said hello.

"I'm catching a ghost cricket, don't mention how unlucky I am this year, I'm worried." Liu Qiyong threw the gauze cage in front of them, grabbed a big piece of skin and chewed it in three or five times, and then said with a sad face, "You can see it yourself."

"Grass snail, are you catching this thing on the river beach? If you want to eat, say hello to Xiaohao, how much do you want." Mr. Zhao opened the veil and saw a lot of grass snails inside, which were more than a dozen pounds.

"Old man, don't make fun of me, you know where I caught this snail. My family's yu rice field was scattered by a snail..." Liu Qiyong took a breath and began to complain.

He was idle this year and opened three acres of wasteland on the river beach. After cutting wheat, he planted rice. Who knew that the land was evil and the rice seedlings were less than half a meter high, and Liu Qiyong didn't care at first. Who knew that the snail was only big in rice grains at the beginning, and now it was about the same diameter as a one-yuan coin. And the number was getting more and more. After gnawing the leaves, they began to geese rice ears and rice whiskers. This thing could not pollinate the rice and could not make seeds.

Only then did Liu Qiyong start to panic and start catching snails in Yumi field on 9 to 5.

"Then hit yào now, don't let this thing chew all the leaves." Zhang Qian suggested.

"Why didn't I beat it? I beat more than 200 yuan of yào in more than three acres of land, which didn't work at all. You said it was strange... There were a few grass snails in the rice field before, but this year I went crazy and all came out. And they also went to work on time, starting to eat at four or five o'clock in the morning, and when the sun came out, they were all gone. By five o'clock in the afternoon, they started to climb up again. The day before yesterday, I fell to the ground and looked at it. Good guy, I ate on the rice all day..."

"Now every morning, we are wearing raincoats and hats and go to the fields to catch grass snails. After catching them for more than half a month, we have not seen any less. We can catch more than a dozen kilograms of snails in half a day and take them all home to feed them. I have been worried these days, and this year's rice production will definitely be reduced."

"You should try it as early as possible. Before the snail lays eggs or when it is a small snail, the rice plant is now tall and no longer useful, and the effect is very poor." Professor Zhao said at this time.

"What should I do? Mr. Hurry up and think of a solution for me." Liu Qiyong then remembered that Professor Zhao was an expert.

"The method is very simple. It is to use insects to control insects and find the natural enemy of the grass snail. This is what our ancestors have used. Shen Kuo mentioned walking insects in "Mengxi Bitan"... In Yuanfeng, the birth of the son square insect in the Qingzhou area was the harm of Akita. Suddenly, a worm grew, like a dog scorpion in the soil, with clamps on its beak, covering the ground. When encountering a son square insect, it will use clamps to fight it, and it will be two sections. Only tens of days will it be over, and the year will be abundant. The insects have been there before, and the natives say they are reluctant to do so."

Seeing Professor Zhao start to shake his head and shook his head, Liu Junhao urged directly: "I'm talking about old man, just talk about the local name of the walking insect."

"Just as we often call clipworms, they are beneficial insects, with slender mouthparts with hooks that can hold snails

Hook out of the thick shell. Just catch hundreds of them and throw them into the ground, and keep them for a few days. The snails in your acres of rice fields are clean." Professor Zhao explained.

"A clamp insect, there are nowhere in this village. This insect really eats snails, old man, don't méng me." Seeing that what he said was too easy, Liu Qiyong was a little unbelievable.

This thing is very common in the pile of firewood, also known as the ground stinky fart bug, which will smell when it encounters danger. When children in rural areas often caught and played with it, they would smell bad with both hands. This kind of unpretentious bug can actually eat snails, which is really incredible.

"What are you doing, just try it out."

"It seems that it's really OK. I remember that a lot of grass snails in my backyard were eaten by them." Zhang Qian also said.

"Okay, I'll go back and catch it now, and throw it hundreds of them into the field." After the assurance, Liu Qiyong was about to leave happily.

"Wait, after you catch the bugs, don't scatter them directly in the field. You should add more haystacks in the field, and then put the walking bugs inside. The snails are happy during the day and just hide in them as food for the walking bugs."
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