Chapter Twenty-Eight: Killing Bees
When the group returned home, they approached their parents and told them about their experience in the woods. Parents also feel that this hornet's nest grows so fast that it should be knocked out in time, otherwise it will be dangerous to enter the forest later.
Although hornets are not particularly aggressive, they are usually fine if they are not provoked. But when they met in the woods, they were angered and hunted down. And the wasp is not like a bee, the bee has a barb on the tail needle, and after stinging a person, it will stay on the person, and will bring out its own intestines, so it will not live.
But the hornet is different, there are no barbs on his tail, and after stinging people, it has no great effect on himself, and he can attack many times, in particular, it is poisonous, although the toxicity is not strong.
Although Jiayi felt a little drowsy, he was stung again, and he felt that if he didn't take revenge, his aunt couldn't bear it, so he set off with his father Gary and the parents of the yellow-haired Badru, and Doris's father.
Before Walker's work in the field was finished, the adults went down to the field, leaving him alone. Only Badrew did not come. He was stung on the head twice, and when he came home, he found that he had been stung on his back once, and he had a terrible headache, so he had to lie in bed to rest.
Kaichi remembered that he had heard that soapy water or toothpaste could alleviate the pain of being stung, well, he had tried toothpaste after being stung in his previous life, but it didn't work, and besides, he didn't have either toothpaste or soap.
Unbeknownst to him, the venom of wasps could not be neutralized with soap and toothpaste. It is generally said that soap or toothpaste is used to reduce the symptoms of insect bites, because the venom of these insects is acidic, and soap and toothpaste are alkaline and can neutralize them. But wasps are different, their venom is alkaline, and using toothpaste or soap does not reduce symptoms, it is better to wash it with vinegar. He probably confused the treatment of other poisonous insects.
And the venom of bees is not the same as wasps, the venom of bees is acidic and can be neutralized with toothpaste or soap.
In fact, there are many such home remedies in life, but many of them are people, hearsay, and the effect is limited.
Gary found a stick 4 or 5 meters long, and everyone took out long-sleeved clothes and put them on, and covered their heads with steps, showing only two eyes, and brought hay and flint and steel, and walked to the hornet's nest under the guidance of a few children.
It didn't take long for them to reach the front of the hornet's nest, and occasionally a few hornets flew past them, and they seemed to have calmed down, without the irritability of chasing and killing them.
"Hey, this hornet's nest is indeed big enough. If you don't knock it out, the forest behind you won't dare to come in. "I saw the hornet's nest," said Badru's father, Badru Sr.
"Well, let's prepare. You have to grasp it, don't be chased all over the ground like these kids. Gary listened.
After saying that, he squatted down, tied the hay he had brought with the green vine he had found to the end of the stick, and when he had finished tying it, he found a few green pine branches to stick on it.
After tying up, he reminded the crowd: "Look at your clothes, wrap your head, we are going to burn the hornet." ”
Everyone began to check their clothes, especially the few children who had just suffered a loss.
After Gary wrapped his head, he took out the flint and steel and started to light the fire.
"Click! click!" I saw the red spark fall into the tied grass, but it didn't immediately ignite the fire. Seeing this, Gary rubbed the grass vigorously, especially the outer ones were kneaded into fluff.
"Don't just look at it, go and break a little branch, and if a hornet comes by, sweep them with a branch. This is old Badru on one side, and when he said that, he came to a small tree and broke a branch with very dense leaves.
When they heard this, they all ran to find the branches.
Gary lit the fire with flint and steel again, and after striking it three or five times, finally a tiny spark lit the hay and slowly smoked. Seeing this, Gary leaned down and blew kissing.
Soon, the fire was lit, if only there were matches or lighters.
Seeing that everyone wrapped themselves and held a thin branch in their hands, Gary grabbed the bottom of the stick, shook it, and took a few steps forward. Then, with an instant, he accelerated and stretched the lit grass balls to the exit of the hornet's nest.
I saw the wasps parked outside the honeycomb "buzzing" and exploding, but most of them were burned off their wings and fell off.
Several hornets flew towards Gary, who was holding a long stick, and saw Erica next to him "brush" a few times, and several hornets were instantly photographed to the ground, and a few wings fell slowly in the air. This is probably some hapless hornet's wings that have been shattered.
The grass balls at the top of the stick emitted a thick flame, and a few pine branches that had been inserted into it were also ignited, but because they were freshly broken green branches, smoke emitted thick smoke and smoked the entire hive.
Probably because he couldn't stand it anymore, he flew out from the bottom of the honeycomb, and as soon as he flew out, he was burned by the flames. It fell to the ground.
Soon, the flame at the tip of the stick gradually became smaller, and a few plugged pine branches fell to the ground. At first glance, there are no hornets left.
Gary put the stick against the bottom of the hornet's nest and stabbed it twice, but before it could be stabbed, the stick slipped through the base of the hive, and the whole hive hung on the tree and swinged.
He moved the stick down slightly, making the contact surface larger, and then pushed it hard, "poof", and the tip of the stick was inserted, too hard. But the hive was also poked down, and the whole hive was poked on the stick by him.
Gary threw the hive in third, stepped on it, and pulled the stick out. The stick wasn't inserted deeply, but there was a layer on the outside, and white swarms could be seen wriggling where the hole was broken.
"Okay, the whole wild honeycomb has been removed. The next time you see this thing, don't mess around with it, go back and call someone. If you hadn't run fast this time, be careful of being killed. ”
"How dare you, such a big hornet's nest, how dare you just throw a stone at random. It's stupid and bold. ”
The more Gary spoke, the more angry and full of fear. When I didn't see this hornet's nest, I didn't realize that this hornet's nest was so big that it could completely sting people, and my two children were here, so I didn't dare to think about it anymore.
"It was Badru who smashed it. Jia Yi lowered his head and muttered quietly, not daring to let his father hear. The best way to teach you is to be silent, as long as you talk back, you will ignore everything. Very few adults admit their mistakes in front of their children, rightly or wrongly, although they always ask their children to recognize their mistakes.
Jiayi, who lowered his head, suddenly saw a hornet crawling out of the mouth of the hornet's nest on the ground, it seemed to be confused by the smoke, his steps were not very flexible, and he didn't fly away immediately after climbing out.
"Dad, there are hornets in there, and they haven't been burned. ”
When everyone heard his words, they saw that there was indeed a hornet at the exit of the hive, and it seemed that another one had crawled out. Old Badru stepped on it and crushed the hornet into a pulp. Then he found some weeds, and one by one in the regiment blocked the exit of the hornet's nest.
Old Badru lifted up the hornet's nest, looked at it, and said, "What about this thing? Burn it! It's not a honeycomb, there's no honey." ”
"Well, let's check to see if there are any sparks, extinguish it, and take this hornet's nest back and burn it. Gary agrees with him.
"Dad, don't. The bee pupae of the hornet are edible and delicious. Jia Yi objected. He had heard of this kind of thing in his previous life, and it was said to be a big supplement. I haven't actually eaten it, but I still know how to do it.
"Is this thing so disgusting, isn't it poisonous?" Doris heard Kaichi say that she was going to eat the bee chrysalis, as if she had heard something evil.
Eat these white, slippery, slimy things.