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- Chapter 497
Treating pests with pests
Lao Shang only came to Liujiagou to rent a house a few years ago. Recently, he even called his wife-in-law to come here and plans to completely retire in Liujiagou. [Search for the latest updates here.]
The couple usually has a lot of free time, so they might as well raise a bird to disturb them.
He took the little cuckoo and carried it back happily, but the next day he came to Liu Junhao with a sad face.
"Xiao Hao, you should raise this bird by yourself. Yesterday when the bird came home, it hid in the carton and stayed motionless. It didn't eat anything. I even gave it some broken egg yolks, but it didn't even look at it. I thought This bird is wild and may like to eat insects. I caught a few crickets last night, but this little thing is still indifferent. If I keep it any longer, I don't think it will starve to death in two days." In just one day, the little cuckoo has become lifeless. , Lao Shang sighed helplessly.
"I'm dizzy. I forgot to tell you yesterday that this bird doesn't need to be fed. Just poke a few thumb-sized holes in the cardboard box and hang it under the tree. It won't take more than twenty days, and the little cuckoo will definitely fly." Liu Junhao patted him. The head spoke.
"It hangs under the treethen how to eat it?" Lao Shang asked puzzledly.
"Just do as I say, and other birds will definitely come to feed. Just be rest assured, this bird will definitely not be hungry." Liu Junhao promised again and again.
"Really, you're not fooling me, are you?" Lao Shang still didn't believe it.
"Is it true? You can wait until you return to the village and try it. If it doesn't work, come back to me." Liu Junhao waved his hand and sent him away. It was just a cuckoo, and this man really treasured it. I didn't see the large group of Qingzhuang in my courtyard, and I never took care of them, so they were still living well.
Lao Shang returned to the village half-convinced and followed the method taught by Liu Junhao. He used a knife to cut a few small holes in the cardboard box, and then hung it on a jujube tree branch in the courtyard.
This jujube tree was just planted last year. It is only as tall as a person, so it is just right for hanging a bird box.
After the bird box was hung, he moved a chair and sat under the tree to guard it. The little cuckoo overhead kept singing, but after more than half an hour, no other birds arrived.
Seeing that there was no hope, Lao Shang had to turn around and go back to the house to watch TV.
Within ten minutes of seeing it, his daughter-in-law shouted in the courtyard, asking him to come out and see the little cuckoo.
Good guy, I really let Liu Junhao talk.
??????????Two gray matzas landed on the bird box, and one bird still had a dragonfly in its beak and stuffed it at the mouth of the bird box. The little cuckoo was more like seeing a long-lost relative, excitedly sticking its neck out of the bird box.
However, their noise frightened the two gray mazars, who flapped their wings and flew to a big poplar tree not far away, and did not dare to come down for a long time.
This time the little cuckoo screamed even louder. Lao Shang knew that he was an eyesore, so he had to turn around and leave.
As soon as he entered the house, the gray mat fell on the bird box again.
The little guy yelled and put his head to the hole of the hole, his little mouth stretched as wide as the old man. Huimazha quickly stuffed the food into its mouth. The little cuckoo finally made a satisfied squeak and swallowed the food in one bite.
Lao Shang was amazed at what he saw in front of the window. When the two gray pups flew away, he remembered that he had forgotten to take a photo as a souvenir.
But there is no need to regret, in the cry of the little cuckoo, soon another white-headed little one flew out.
The bird looked around and landed on the bird box. It fed the little cuckoo with something unknown in its mouth and then spread its wings and flew away.
Now Lao Shang is completely relieved, it seems that the little guy will not die of hunger.
Throughout the morning, the couple took photos non-stop with their cameras. Finally, he roughly counted four or five kinds of birds that brought food to the little cuckoo.
This little cuckoo became a curiosity, and many familiar people came over to visit it. However, the more they looked at it, the more puzzled they became. After discussing for a long time, they still couldn¡¯t figure out why other birds came to feed them. Could it be that the birds also learned this? Help each other.
They were discussing when Er Mazi happened to pass by, and Lao Shang immediately grabbed him and asked.
"What's so strange about this? You guys are really rare and strange. Have you never heard of 'jing cuckoo, stupid red-billed yu'?" Er Mazi knew this thing very well and explained, "This kind of bird is born with jings and is never fed. My own children lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and let them hatch them. The little birds also imitate other birds when they sing. The sounds are very similar, which naturally attracts other birds to come and feed them."
Children who have dug out bird nests in rural areas all know that generally young birds will die within three days after being separated from the old birds. But this kind of little cuckoo does not even need to be raised after being caught. It can be tied directly to a branch. Hungry to death.
¡°So that¡¯s it, no wonder Liu Junhao said there¡¯s no need to feed it.¡± It¡¯s easy to raise this bird, and Lao Shang finally felt relieved.
In the afternoon, as soon as the heat had dropped a few minutes, He Yifan picked up??Crack the bamboo pole into the cicada shell.
Liu Junhao and his wife didn¡¯t go anywhere, they just stayed at home.
Now everything is centered on the children. The two little guys are in very good spirits and can be noisy all day long, leaving them no time to spare at all.
Zhang Qian found a movie on the computer, and the couple stayed in the house all afternoon. It wasn't until the heat subsided in the evening that Liu Junhao got in and started cooking.
It was a hot day, so he didn't want to light a fire, so he used the rice cooker to boil some mung bean soup, and then cooked some green vegetables. As for the two yellow spots in the yard, I just threw two big steamed buns for them to eat.
It was only after seven o'clock when the couple had dinner, and it was not dark yet.
So each person had a chair and sat in the pavilion to enjoy the shade with the little one in his arms.
The older the baby, the more interesting it is. In less than four months, the first and second eldest children have already started to learn to make noises. As long as the adults watch them talking, the two little guys can't stop laughing.
Seeing their family coming out to enjoy the cool air, Professor Zhao and his wife also came over with cattail fans.
Usually, Zhang Qian and Liu Junhao ask Professor Zhao to help take care of their children when they have something to do. Therefore, the two little guys didn't recognize themselves as strangers. When they saw Professor Zhao, they stretched out their little hands to say hello.
They were talking and laughing when they saw Liu Qiyong walking from the direction of the river embankment carrying a gauze cage.
"Qiyong, you're not catching crickets on the river beach too, are you? Come over and rest for a while and eat a piece of melon." Liu Junhao greeted loudly.
"I'm catching a ghost cricket. Don't mention how unlucky this year is. I'm worried." Liu Qiyong threw the gauze cage in front of them, grabbed a big piece of flower skin and nibbled it, and then said with a sad face, "See for yourselves"
"Grass snail, you caught this thing on the river beach? If you want to eat it, say hello to Xiao Hao, and you can have as much as you want." Mr. Zhao opened the veil and took a look. There were a lot of grass snails inside, weighing more than ten kilograms.
"Old man, don't make fun of me. You know where I caught this snail. My yum field was plagued by snails" Liu Qiyong took a breath and began to complain.
This spring, he had nothing to do, so he opened three acres of wasteland on the river beach, and after harvesting the wheat, he planted yum. Who would have known that the evil manure in that piece of land started to cause snails when the seedlings were less than half a meter tall. At first, Liu Qiyong didn't care. Who knew that this snail was only as big as a grain of rice at first, and now it is about the same diameter as a one-yuan coin. And the number is increasing. After gnawing on the leaves, they start to gnaw on the yum ears and yum whiskers. This thing has chewed up the yum and cannot pollinate it, nor can it produce seeds.
It was then that Liu Qiyong started to panic, and he started catching snails in the rice fields from nine to five.
"Then take a shot quickly, don't let this thing eat up the leaves." Zhang Qian suggested.
"Why didn't you fight? I spent more than 200 yuan on medicine over three acres of land, but it didn't work at all. You said it was strange In the past, there were only a few grass snails in the yum fields, but this year they have appeared. Like crazy, they all came out. Moreover, they went to work on time and started eating at four or five o'clock every morning. When the sun came out, they were all gone. By about five o'clock in the afternoon, they started to climb up again. I was a little bit wet the day before yesterday. I fell to the ground and took a look, what a good guy, I've been chewing on rice all day long"
"Now every morning, the two of us wear raincoats and hats and go out to catch grass snails in the fields. We have been catching them for more than half a month, and there are still no shortages. We can catch more than ten kilograms of snails in half a day, and we take them all home to feed the ducks. . I have been worried to death these days. This year¡¯s yumi production will definitely be reduced.¡±
¡°You have to vaccinate as early as possible, before the snails lay eggs or when they are young. Now that the yam plants are tall, it no longer works. The effect is very poor.¡± At this time, Professor Zhao said.
"What should we do? Master, please come up with a solution for me." Only then did Liu Qiyong remember that Professor Zhao was an expert.
"The method is very simple, which 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 "Mengxi Bi Tan" Yuanfengzhong, Gyeongjujie gave birth to a child. Insects are the only harm to Akita. Suddenly, an insect appears, like a dog or scorpion in the soil. Its beak has pincers, covering the ground with thousands of them. If you encounter a small insect, use your pincers to fight it, breaking it into two parts. In ten days, everything will be gone. , it is a big worm every year. The insects were there in the past, but the natives said they would not tolerate them."
Seeing Professor Zhao start to shake his head and read the article, Liu Junhao directly urged: "I say, old man, just tell me the native name of the walking insect."
"As for the pinworms we often call them, they are considered beneficial insects. They have long and slender hooked mouthparts that can eat snails.
ou hooked out of the thick carapace. Just catch a few hundred and throw them into the field, and keep the snails in your few acres of rice field clean for a few days. "Professor Zhao explained.
"There are pinworms everywhere in this village. They really eat snails, old man, don't be fooled by me." See what he said."It's easy," Liu Qiyong didn't believe it.
There are a lot of these things in firewood piles. They are also called stink bugs. They will emit a stinky smell when they are in danger. When I was a child, rural children often played with them, which made their hands stink. It¡¯s incredible that such an unattractive insect can actually eat snails.
¡°M¨¦ng, what are you doing? You¡¯ll know after you try it.¡±
"It seems to be true. I remember that the grass snails in my backyard were eaten by them a lot." Zhang Qian also chuckled.
"Okay, I'll go back and catch them right away, throw hundreds of them into the fields." After receiving the assurance, Liu Qiyong left happily.
"Wait a minute, after you catch the bugs, don't scatter them directly in the ground. You should make more haystacks in the ground, and then put the walking bugs in them. The snails like to yin during the day, so they can hide in them and serve as food for the walking bugs."
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