186. Physical prevention and control of locust plagues

Ren Xiaoyao has never been exposed to pharmacology, so he doesn't know about pesticides, but he knows the natural enemies of locusts. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although a large number of locusts broke out in the locust plague, all things were born and all things were born together.

Since nature has created such a thing as locusts, there must be something to restrain it.

Otherwise, the food chain of nature will be invincible, and the nature of this world will not be long before all species become extinct.

If one animal becomes extinct in the biological chain, the survival of other animals is impressed.

Thus, the protection of one animal is the protection of many others.

The biological chain is like a balance beam. If, for some reason, there are too many or too few species of any one of these organisms.

This balance beam will lose its balance, which will cause great disaster for other creatures.

The rice is eaten by bugs, the bugs are eaten by birds, the birds are eaten by snakes, and the snakes are eaten by eagles..... Wait a minute.

In this food chain, insects are particularly annoying animals, but if all the insects are eliminated, then the birds will have nothing to eat.

The birds will go extinct, and then the snakes will starve to death....

Eventually, humanity will become extinct because there is no food.

After a long time, this world will be out of balance because of the food chain, and nature will start over and recreate everything.

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There are three types of natural enemies of locusts, birds, frogs, and their --- kinds. Frogs, in particular, live in the same type of ecological environment as locusts.

Low-lying land, ponds, ditches, etc., where reeds and weeds grow are good places for their survival, so frogs are the vanguard that restricts the reproduction of locusts.

However, Ren Xiaoyao did not plan to use frogs to control the locust plague, because he felt that frogs were a bit disgusting.

It's not that he's pretentious, it's that he gets goosebumps when he sees frogs.

If you want to say that the nemesis of locusts is none other than the starling (liang2 sound) bird and the tern plover (heng2 sound) among the birds.

These two are the two birds that Ren Xiaoyao knows the most persistent about locusts.

Starlings, in particular, often gather in small groups in woods, meadows, rivers, and streams near villages.

Therefore, when they peck at insects on the ground, if they find locusts and eggs, the flock of birds will be like rolling waves rushing forward.

When locusts migrate, they take to the air and catch them in the air.

It looks like an act of exterminating all locusts.

And the tern, because it is a climate bird and a traveling bird, is a migratory bird. Spring comes in April~May, and autumn leaves in September~October.

This time is exactly the time when the locusts breed, so the suppression effect on the locusts is very obvious.

However, it is not known if these two birds can be found.

Now that the country of sunset is in November, I am afraid that it will not be easy to find according to the habitat habits of the two birds.

"Hey, really, this November, how can there be a locust plague?"

Ren Xiaoyao thought of the perching habits of the two birds and complained.

Among the remaining insects, there are two kinds of natural enemies of locusts, ants and mole crickets (lougu).

These two are also considered the natural enemies of locusts, but the effect of inhibiting locusts is not obvious.

Because they don't like frogs that can jump, and they don't fly like birds. In the face of locusts that can fly and jump, it is a little overwhelming.

After thinking about it, Ren Xiaoyao still decided to see if he could find the tern and starling, and was considering which one to choose.

After coming back to his senses, Ren Xiaoyao had already determined that the "advance troops" of the locust plague had indeed come, and immediately got up and prepared to find the natural enemies of these locusts.

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At the same time, in the abyss hundreds of miles away from Four Seasons County, the residence of the "Soul Blade Double Killing" exuded a strong smell of blood.

The valley, which had been peaceful, turned into a clutter, with weeds and trees falling to pieces, and there were obvious sword marks on the trees, apparently after a fierce fight.

The corpses of soldiers could be seen on the ground at random, and the smell of blood emanating from the corpses attracted many wild beasts to watch.

In a forest more than ten miles outside the valley, the two couples of the "Soul Blade Double Kill" were covered in blood and fled frantically. Behind them were hundreds of soldiers in pursuit.

"Ahh Suddenly, the female blade's back was hit by a throwing knife in the waist, and she fell to the ground.

The male soul heard the voice of the female blade, turned around and saw the small force behind the female blade who fell to the ground, and shouted angrily: "Old woman, ....."

The male soul ran to the side of the female blade and hugged the dying female blade, and the old face wept bitterly and shed tears, muttering to himself:

"Old woman, you can't die, you can't die, who will sleep with me when you die? Who cooks the food for me? ”

However, the female blade was unconscious, and could not hear his cries.

"Eagle Soul, you can be captured, I don't want to do anything with you."

Just when the old man was sad, hundreds of people in armor had already surrounded the two of them. A man dressed in plain white brocade in front of the native soldier spoke.

Eagle Soul is the male soul of "Soul Blade Double Kill", I don't know his real name, but because of the appearance of Eagle Tianba, he was called Eagle Soul by people in the martial arts.

"Why? Why? My husband and wife haven't been out of the mountain for ten years, why do they want to kill us? The eagle soul angrily said angrily at the plain-clothed man.

The man held his breath and stared, unmoved by the soaring anger of the eagle soul, and said lightly:

"I'm just carrying out orders, and I don't know anything else. As a martial arts person, from the beginning of entering the martial arts, you and I should know that there is such a day. ”

The eagle soul was sad and in a trance, recalling the bits and pieces of the past, and tears welled up in his eyes. Burst into laughter.

smiled: "Hahaha, what a martial artist, since you have this awareness, then you can bury your wife and son." ”

After speaking, the eagle soul picked up the soul knife on the ground and ran towards the man suddenly, rushing in front of the man in an instant, and the soul knife slashed forward vigorously.

The man calmly looked at the slashed soul knife, sighed gloomily, and his body flashed, dodging the attack of the eagle soul.

When he looked back, the eagle soul had already been hit by dozens of arrows, showing a frightened expression, and said intermittently: "You are an ethereal ....."

Before he finished speaking, he fell to the ground.

"Why bother? If you don't have the opportunity to kill, how will the Holy One deal with you? The man said lightly.

"You bring the corpse back to Beijing to resume your life, and tell the Holy Lord that the Ethereal Sect has nothing to do with the imperial court."

The man glanced indifferently at the hundreds of soldiers, leaving such a sentence and dissipating.

The soldiers left behind looked at each other when they heard this, you look at me, I look at you. Without saying a word, he picked up the body and left.

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At this time, Ren Xiaoyao was buried in the grass next to a small river, completely unaware that his two enemies had been killed, and were concentrating on catching birds.

"It's strange that there are terns this season, but why are there so few?"

Ren stared at a dozen or so collared terns with black beaks, red at the corners of their beaks and the base of their lower beaks, and black feet by the small river not far from the grass.

The collared tern is a small wading bird of the family Tern Plover and the genus Tern Plover, and its living habits are the same as those of the common tern.

Inhabits open plains, meadows, freshwater or saltwater swamps, lakes, rivers, and wetlands.

It is also sometimes found in farmland areas with sparse plants or low grasses, and does not like forests and dense shrublands.

The breeding season is also from May to July.

However, unlike the common tern, the collared tern is a wading bird species.

Waders are a group of birds.

With strong wings and long mouths, necks, feet and toes, it is suitable for wading in shallow water and preying on fish, shrimp and aquatic insects. Such as red-crowned cranes, egrets, etc.

It's just that red-crowned cranes and egrets are large wading birds, while collared terns are small wading birds.

There are also differences between collared terns and common terns in their breeding methods.

Common terns breed alone or in pairs, but collar terns breed in flocks near lakes and rivers on open plains, mostly in recesses on the shore or on the edge of marshes.

"You stinky birds, at last, you're full, and I'm almost treated as food for snakes."

Ren Xiaoyao saw more than a dozen collared terns eating and drinking, flying into the air, and said to himself.

When he saw the lingyan fly away, he cautiously followed.

And in the grass where he was originally lying prone, there were more than a dozen small snakes that were cut off by the waist.

The reason why Ren Xiaoyao did not directly put the tern into the space was to find the nest of the tern.

Terns generally live in flocks, with at least hundreds of them. They usually forage, breed, and fly together.

He still can't look down on these dozen collared terns, there are too few, if you want to fight against the "army of locusts", even if Ren Xiaoyao has a space of 30 times the time difference, he can't reproduce in large numbers for a while.

A single bird lays only 2-3 eggs per nest, and even if a dozen or so are female terns and all carry eggs, at most only a few dozen.

It takes a year to go from breaking out of the shell to foraging for food on its own, which means that it takes at least 12 days even if you stay in the space.

By then, I am afraid that the "army of locusts" has already shifted the battlefield.

In the face of an army of millions of "locusts", dozens of birds, a fart.

And even if these dozen collared terns are birds that have lost their direction and can't find the flock to stay, they can at least find the spawning grounds of the flock.

That's why Ren Xiaoyao didn't directly put the Tern Plover into the space at the beginning.

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At this time, Ren Xiaoyao followed more than a dozen collared terns to a swamp, and his expression was a little gloomy.

These terns were really what he had guessed, terns who had lost their way and could not find a flock of birds.

The swamp area is 1,000 square meters in circumference, and there are no other terns.

However, he found that there were a lot of yellow-white eggs in the swamp, and he didn't know if they were tern eggs.

He had only seen the tern plover and knew that it was effective in suppressing locusts, but he did not know what the bird's eggs looked like.

"It's really troublesome, the good ones don't grow in trees, they have to be buried in the ground, and they are so tricky, put them in the swamp, don't you know that there are many snakes in the swamp?"

Ren Xiaoyao looked at the yellow and white eggs in the swamp and muttered to himself.

As soon as the words fell, he heard more than a dozen collared swallows screaming, looked back, and froze.

When he came back to his senses, a golden light flashed on his forehead and between his eyebrows, and he put more than a dozen leading tern plovers into the space.

"Damn, there are already fewer swallows, and you still rob me when you step on a horse? It looks like you're chubby for nothing. didn't eat less eggs, put you into the space to torture you. ”

Ren Xiaoyao looked at the swamp with sparse weeds, a black python that was not slippery, and gritted his teeth.

Just now he heard the cry of the collared tern's plover resting in the swamp, and when he turned around, he saw this black python more than ten meters long, opening its mouth to bite the collared tern.

If he hadn't collected the collar tern into the space in time, I'm afraid that the only dozen or so collar tern would be gone.

The black python that is more than ten meters long, with a long mouth, is as big as the digging head of an excavator, even if Lingyan can fly, it can't escape the python's mouth.

Ren Xiaoyao looked at the huge python, and a golden light flashed between his eyebrows, and in an instant, the python disappeared.

When he saw the giant python for the first time just now, Ren Xiaoyao was also taken aback, the length of more than ten meters was bigger than the golden python he collected in Tianshan Village.

After entering the deep mountains for so long, it was not that he had never seen a python, but the length of more than ten meters was the first time he had seen it, and he was really shocked.

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Ren Xiaoyao tightened the space of the python, and immediately took out a knife and shovel.

Use a knife to chop up the weeds in the swamp and look for eggs.

The eggs you see, no matter what you have, are dug up with a shovel and indiscriminately packed into the space to hatch.

Although space is very magical, it cannot be opposed by terrain gravity, and eggs buried in the swamp cannot be directly collected into space.

"Hehehe, it's not bad, there are more than 3,000 eggs, but I don't know if it's all tern eggs."

After Ren Xiaoyao collected all the eggs in the swamp into the space, he said to himself.

"But even if there are more than 3,000 terns, it's not enough, so let's keep looking and see if we can find starlings."

Ren Xiaoyao glanced up at the sun in the sky, and found that it was already noon, and he was ready to look for it again and go back to Renjia Village.

If he didn't return to Renjia Village, I'm afraid Niu Dan would think that he was eaten by wild beasts.

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However, he didn't know that Niu Dan was already worried about him at this time, and walked into this mountain range alone.

To the south of Renjia Village, in a forest relatively close to Renjia Village, Niu Dan held a few pheasants in his hands, muttered to himself, and said:

"Strange, where is this kid? I haven't found it all the time, so I can't go into the mountains, right? ”

Niu Dan just searched all the woods, valleys, and streams that he had been to with Ren Xiaoyao, but he didn't find Ren Xiaoyao, and said worriedly.

"No, I'm going to find Xiaoyao, this kid is really good, and he doesn't care about Gu Shiting, what if something happens?"

After speaking, he released the pheasant that he had finally caught in his hand and walked to the mountains.

"Strange, why is there such a big mountain road here, could it be that it is open freely?"

When Niu Dan walked to a valley, he saw the mountain road opened by Ren Xiaoyao riding an elephant and muttered to himself.

"No, Xiaoyao doesn't have tools, he definitely didn't drive it, and there are footprints, it should be opened by a beast, Xiaoyao shouldn't have been taken away by a beast, right?"

Niu Dan looked at the elephant's footprints on the mountain road, worried, and said.

"No, I'm going to check it out."

Although Niu Dan knew that this was the path that the beast had walked, he was very worried about Ren Xiaoyao, so he took the road to the mountain to find Ren Xiaoyao.

If Ren Xiaoyao knew the friendship of Niu Dan, he would definitely be moved to tears.

To be continued.......... (To be continued.) )