Chapter 497: Treating Insects with Worms

Lao Shang, who only went to Liujiagou to rent a house to live in a few years ago, recently even called his daughter-in-law Fu over, planning to completely retire in Liujiagou.

The two usually have a lot of free time, so it's good to raise a bird to disturb.

He took the little cuckoo back happily, but the next day he came to Liu Junhao with a sad face.

"Xiao Hao, you should raise this bird yourself. Yesterday, when the nong went back, he hid in the cardboard box and didn't move, not eating anything, and I also deliberately gave it some broken egg yolks, but I didn't even look at it. I thought that the bird was wild and might like to eat insects, and I caught a few crickets last night, and the little thing remained indifferent. If I keep raising it any longer, I don't think I'll starve to death in two days. In just one day, the little cuckoo had become lifeless, and Lao Shang sighed helplessly.

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

"Hang under the tree...... So how does it eat? Lao Shang asked puzzled.

"Do as I say, and there will definitely be other birds on the mén feeding. If you put a hundred hearts, this bird will not be hungry. Liu Junhao repeatedly assured.

"Really, you're not fooling me, are you?" Lao Shang still didn't believe it.

"Is it true, you can just try it when you go back to the village next time, if it really doesn't work, come back to me." Liu Junhao waved his hand and sent him away directly. It's just a cuckoo, this man really takes it as a treasure. I didn't see the large group of Qingzhuang in my courtyard, I never took care of it, and I didn't live well.

Lao Shang returned to the village in disbelief, and according to the method taught by Liu Junhao, he used a knife to scratch a few small dong on the cardboard box, and then hung them on the branches of jujube trees in the courtyard.

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

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

Lao Shang saw that there was no hope, so he had to turn around and go back to the house to watch TV.

As soon as he couldn't see it for ten minutes, his daughter-in-law shouted in the courtyard and asked him to come out and see the little cuckoo.

Good guy, I really let Liu Junhao say.

Two gray linen fell on top of the bird's box, and one bird's beak was still stuffed with a dragonfly at the mouth of the bird's box. And the little cuckoo is more like seeing a long-lost relative, excitedly sticking his neck out of the bird box.

However, their noise startled the two gray maza, and they flapped their wings and flew to the big poplar tree not far away, and did not dare to come down for a long time.

This time the little cuckoo screamed even more, and Lao Shang knew that he was in the way of his eyes, so he had to turn around and leave.

As soon as he entered the house, the gray linen fell on the birdbox again.

The little guy screamed and put his head to the mouth, and his small mouth stretched out to the old elder. Gray Mazar hurried to shove the food into its mouth. The little cuckoo finally squeaked in satisfaction and swallowed the food in one gulp.

Lao Shang was amazed when he watched in front of the window, and when the two gray mazza flew away, he remembered that he forgot to take a photo.

But there is no need to regret it, in the cry of the little cuckoo, soon a white-headed little one flew outside.

The bird looked around and landed on the bird's box, and after feeding the little cuckoo with something in its mouth, it spread its wings and flew away.

Now Lao Shang is completely relieved, it seems that the little guy will not die of hunger.

All morning, the two of them held cameras and kept taking pictures. At last he made a rough count, and there were four or five species of birds that came to feed the little cuckoos.

This little cuckoo became a rarity, and many familiar people around came to visit, but the more people looked at it, the more they wondered, and they couldn't understand why other birds came to feed them for a long time, and it was possible that the birds also learned to help each other.

They were discussing, and it happened that Er Mazi passed by, and Lao Shang immediately grabbed him and asked.

"What's so strange about this, you guys are really rare and weird, haven't you heard of 'jing cuckoo, stupid red-mouthed yu'?" Er Mazi knew this thing too well, and explained, "This kind of bird is born and never feeds its own children, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds for others to incubate. The sound of the bird is similar to that of other birds, which naturally attracts other birds to come and feed. ”

Children who have taken out bird's nests in rural areas know that generally young birds will die if they can't raise them for three days after they get rid of old birds, but this kind of little cuckoo doesn't even need to be raised after being caught, and they can't starve to death if they are directly tied to a branch.

"I see, no wonder Liu Junhao said he didn't need to feed it." This bird is raised to save trouble, and Lao Shang finally relaxes.

As soon as the heat dropped a few minutes in the afternoon, He Yifan carried a bamboo pole to beat the shell.

Liu Junhao and his family didn't go anywhere, so they stayed at home.

Now everything is child-centered, the two little guys are very good, and they are noisy all day long, and they don't let them have any free time at all.

Zhang Qian found a movie on the computer, and the two of them stayed in the house for an afternoon. It wasn't until the evening when the heat subsided that Liu Junhao got in and started cooking.

It was hot, and he didn't want to make a fire, so he directly boiled some mung bean soup in a rice cooker to deal with it, and then cooked a green vegetable to finish. As for the two macular skins in the courtyard, they directly threw two big steamed buns for them to eat.

It was only seven o'clock after the two of them had eaten, and it was not yet dark.

So one person and one chair, holding the little one and sitting in the gazebo to enjoy the shade.

The bigger the baby, the more interesting it is, and in less than four months, the old and the old have already begun to learn to make noise. As soon as the adults watched them talk, the two little ones couldn't stop laughing.

Seeing that their family came out to enjoy the coolness, Professor Zhao and his family also came over with a pu fan.

Usually, Zhang Qian and Liu Junhao ask Professor Zhao to help take care of the children when they have something, so the two little ones don't recognize their lives, and they see Professor Zhao still stretching out his little hand to say hello.

They were talking and laughing, but they saw Liu Qiyong carrying a veil cage coming from the direction of the river embankment.

"Qiyong, you won't also catch crickets on the river beach, hurry up and come over to rest for a while and eat a piece of melon." Liu Junhao greeted loudly.

"I'm catching a ghost cricket, not to mention how unlucky I am this year, I'm worried." Liu Qiyong threw the veil cage in front of them, grabbed a large piece of uā skin, and then said with a sad face, "See for yourself"

"Grass snail, you're catching this thing on the riverbank? If you want to eat and say hello to Xiao Hao, how much you want. Old Man Zhao opened the veil and saw that there was a large pile of grass and snails inside, more than a dozen catties.

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

This year, he was idle, so he opened three acres of wasteland on the river beach, and planted yu rice after cutting wheat. Who knew that the land was evil, and when Yu Mimiao was less than half a meter tall, he began to make snails, and Liu Qiyong didn't care about it at first. Who knew that this snail was only the size of a grain of rice at the beginning, a nest, and now the diameter is about the same as a one-dollar coin. And there are more and more of them, and after they finish gnawing the leaves, they begin to gnaw on the ears of rice and the beards of rice. This thing can't pollinate after eating yu rice, and it can't produce seeds.

Only then did Liu Qiyong start to panic, and he began to catch snails in the rice field from nine to five.

"Then hurry up and hit y, don't let this thing gnaw up the leaves." Zhang Qian opened her mouth to suggest.

"Why didn't I fight, I hit more than 200 y's in front and back on more than three acres of land, and it didn't work at all. You say it's weird...... In the past, there were a few grass snails in the rice field, but this year, they all came out like crazy. And they go to work on time, they start eating at four or five o'clock every morning, and when the sun comes out, they are all gone. By five o'clock in the afternoon, it began to climb up again. The day before yesterday was a little yin, I fell to the ground and looked at it, good guy, I have been gnawing on yu rice all day......"

"Now, every morning, we both wear raincoats and hats to catch grass and snails in the field. I caught it for more than half a month, and I didn't see less, and I was able to catch more than a dozen catties of snails in half a day, and I took them all home to feed the ducks. I've been scared to death for the past few days, and this year's yu rice production will definitely be reduced."

"Hit y as soon as possible, before the snail lays eggs or when the snail is small, now the yu rice plant is tall, it is no longer useful, and the effect is very poor." At this time, Professor Zhao said.

"Then what to do, the old man hurry up and think of a way" Liu Qiyong then remembered that Professor Zhao was an expert.

"The solution is very simple, that is, to treat insects with insects, and find walking insects, the natural enemies of grass snails. Our ancestors have already used this. Shen Kuo mentioned walking insects in "Dream Creek Writings...... In Yuanfengzhong, the Gyeongju boundary gave birth to a square worm, and the party was the pest of Akita. Suddenly, a worm is born, like a dog scorpion in the soil, its beak has pincers, and it covers the ground; In the case of a square insect, it is beaten by forceps, and it is divided into two sections. The days are over, and the years are great. Its insects used to exist, and the natives said that they were unwilling. ”

Seeing that Professor Zhao began to shake his head and drag the text, Liu Junhao directly urged: "I said old man, you can directly say the name of the walking worm." ”

"As we often call clipworms, they are beneficial insects, with long, slender mouthparts with hooks that can hook the snail out of the thick carapace. Just catch a few hundred and throw them in the field, and keep them for a few days, and the snails in your acres of rice will be cleaned. Professor Zhao explained.

"Clip worms, this village is not everywhere. This worm really eats snails, old man, don't you say it too easily, Liu Qiyong didn't believe it.

This thing is very abundant in firewood and grass piles, and it is also called a ground stink bug, and it will emit a stench when it is in danger. When I was a child, children in the countryside often caught and played, and my hands stinked. It's really incredible that this unsightly insect can eat snails.

"What are you doing, you'll find out if you try."

"It seems like it really can, I remember that the grass snails in my backyard were eaten by them." Zhang Qian also said.

"Okay, I'll go back and catch it, and throw hundreds of them into the field." was assured that Liu Qiyong was happy to leave.

"Wait, don't sprinkle the worm directly in the ground after you catch it, you should have more grass in the ground, and then put the walking worm inside, the snail likes yin during the day, just hide in it and give the walking worm as food." t@。