1210. The vine beckons insects
The Coast Guard took Benson and his party away, towed their boat, and the matter came to an end.
Black-footed ferrets never seemed to have been seen, no one mentioned them, and both sides tried their best to hide the traces of their existence.
This scene made the taciturn soldier Osprey feel emotional, and said sadly: "What a sad thing, two little creatures disappeared like this, and there is nothing we can do about it, we can't save them, and we can't help them get justice." ”
Black Knife gave him a strange look and said, "I said man, what do you mean by that?" With so much sentimentality, do you want to be a philosopher or a poet? ”
Osprey smiled awkwardly and said, "No, I mainly think of some things when we were soldiers in the past, how similar do you think these two ferrets are to us at that time?" Sometimes, when we go on overseas missions, the country that goes wrong not only does not come to our rescue, but also tries to dissociate itself from us in every possible way. ”
As he spoke, he couldn't help but shake his head, his face full of embarrassment.
The black knife rolled his eyes and didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and asked Qin Shiou, "BOSS, what are you looking for?" ”
Qin Shiou looked at the beach on tiptoe and muttered, "I want to see if those two poor children will be washed on the beach by the waves by chance?" Come, help me find their figures, and find rewards. ”
The black knife came over and patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "I don't blame you for this, boss, don't look for it, don't feel guilty, they are estimated to have gone to heaven now, if we want to find them, we have to look up and find them." ”
Qin Shiou couldn't help but roll his eyes, who said Lao Tzu was guilty? Who said they had gone to heaven? At least they didn't die in the sea.
On the shore, Qin Shiou took the tiger and the leopard to search for the black-footed ferret. He walked all the way along the beach, but he didn't get anything. He was very disappointed.
Watching Qin Shiou's repeated search, the black knife said movingly: "The boss is really an emotional guy. ”
"Yes. He was too emotional, he must be in a deep state of guilt right now, in fact the death of the two ferrets had nothing to do with him. "But he doesn't think so, he's such a guy, with a sense of responsibility, a sense of mission, and a lot of love." ”
Qin Shiou wanted to say that he didn't know that he was such a person......
In front of him, he took the tigers, leopards, bears and wolves around to find the little ferret, but after looking for a while, he didn't find it, so he simply continued to walk along the beach. It's like a walk with the sea breeze.
After walking for a long time, I came to Mr. Ross's fishery, with the vineyard behind me, and stood on the beach and looked back, and saw a large area of lush greenery on the small plateau.
The green leaves of the grapes sway in the sea breeze, and the delicate vines pull out their branches and climb up the buttresses, and the vineyards are full of life at this time.
Qin Shiou walked over to check it, but found that something was wrong with the lush vines from a distance. Many leaves have pitted gaps, and if you look closely, you can also find some small white insects, which are attracting insects.
A little bug on the leaves is not a big deal, there were last year too. Not much impact.
However, he also saw that there were gaps in the vines, especially near some of the young shoots, and the skin of the vines had turned black. You can tear this section off with a light tug of your hand, and then look inside. You'll see holes in the vines with worms and some yellow droppings or something like that.
Qin Shiou was a little anxious like this. He called Bill, described the situation, took a few more pictures and sent them over, and asked him what was going on.
Bill told him not to worry, he asked the expert in agronomy, and then called him back and told him to wait.
It didn't take long for Bill to call and say, "This is probably caused by the grape tiger beetle, this insect occurs once a year, and the larvae stay in the grape branches to overwinter." It begins to be active in May and June of the following year, and continues to infest the branches, sometimes the larvae gnaw at the branches horizontally, causing the branches to break. ”
Qin Shiou said: "Then what is a good treatment? ”
Bill said hesitantly: "Of course there is a cure, but this is best prevented, in the future, in the winter you have to prune the vines, where the tiger is violated, the vines will turn black, this kind of place should be cut off and burned." ”
Hearing him say these useless words, Qin Daguan was greatly depressed and said, "I understand, but it's spring, what's the use of you telling me how to deal with winter?" I wonder what should I do now? ”
"Combine manual cutting and spraying pesticides." "I can't tell you on the phone, I'll go to you tomorrow with construction tools and pesticides," Bill said. ”
Qin Shiou continued to check later, the more he looked at it, the more uncomfortable he felt in his heart, he was too negligent in the management of the vineyard before, and now many grapevines have attracted insects, if he didn't happen to come over today to take a look, maybe what it would be like in the future.
He can't be blamed entirely for this, because last winter it snowed heavily and the weather was cold, and experts on TV explained that this kind of weather has disadvantages and advantages, and the advantage is that it will freeze to death pests, and this year's farms and pastures can be harvested.
As a result, Qin Shiou listened to the words of the experts and did not pay attention to the problem of pests and diseases.
The next day, Bill arrived, he brought a few vineyard management workers over, and said to Qin Shiou: "Don't worry, man, they will help you get rid of the insects in the vines, but in winter you have to come by yourself, once the grape tiger is in trouble, it is not easy to clean up." ”
Qin Shiou took the fishermen to the vineyard, and each of these workers took two fishermen and taught them how to cut the buds that attract insects on the vines.
Bill gave Qin Shiou a large pot of oily pesticides and said, "Mix this with quicklime water, you have a thick airplane here, right?" Just sprinkle it in the evening, and in one night these tigers will be finished. ”
Qin Shiou is cautious about pesticides and the like, and so far he has not used pesticides in his vegetable gardens, fisheries, and vineyards.
Listening to Bill's words like this, he asked vigilantly, "What about the residual effect of these pesticides?" ”
Bill smiled: "This is the second generation of pyrethride medicine, as long as the sun will decompose, so I let you spray it in the evening, rest assured, as long as two days of light they will disappear, not to mention that your grapes have not grown yet, what are you afraid of?" ”
Insect infestations are a difficult thing to do for wine vineyards, because they can't be made with pesticides, and once they form residues on the grapes, they can't make good wines.
This year, Qin Shiou really wants to make some good wine by himself, he can't always drink Hickson's father, right?
After listening to Bill's words, he put away the pesticide, he picked up a set of tools and went into the vineyard, and after finding a small black hole in the vine, he cut it off and collected it. (To be continued......)