Today I went to the Satellite Bridge Farmers Market, walked back to a remote street, and suddenly saw a tricycle with many "Sky Thunder Bee" bee discs. Seeing that the frame is for sale, without hesitation, I went up, looked east, looked west, and asked this and that with interest.
The "Sky Thunder Bee" hive seen on the market
The "Sky Thunder Bee" bee disc is very large, and a few of them fill the entire tricycle. The car is covered with a red plastic sheet, which seems to add some color to the goods above and add some charm to the goods.
Before I found it, it seemed like there were only tricycles, bee plates, and bee traders. The beemonger seemed to be doing something carelessly. Needless to say, the boss has a light business and is almost unattended.
Because of this, the boss was not bothered, and answered my questions of one kind or another.
Sky Thunder Bee in the Tree
In fact, how to take the "Thunder Bee", I often see videos made by others on the Internet, for which I can also be regarded as "light car familiar with the road, clear in the chest". But what is the purpose of retrieving it, and what is it necessary to collect its adult bee network? Some even search for the "queen bee" in the hive and raise them respectfully. I've always wondered what to do with them! Some put the hive in the refrigerator for refrigeration, some put it in the steamer basket to steam, these follow-up matters after the treatment made me grumpy and could not be relieved for a long time.
Today I finally saw the market side of the sale, I guess I want to know the follow-up matters that have no answer, which is why I started to look at the east and west, ask this and that.
Mine bees in tree holes (trees that have been overturned).
In Sichuan, people in many places divide adult bees into "sky thunder bees" and "mine bees" according to their size and nesting positions: hanging on tall branches, the larger hive is called "sky thunder bees", and those located in tree holes, underground, or stone crevices are called "mine bees". Because of its large adult bees, strong toxicity and great harm, there is often a phenomenon of stinging people and animals, and many people talk about "bees" discoloration and classify it as one of the poisonous snakes and beasts. In fact, their real names should be called "horse bees", or "ants", "wasps" or "wasps". Adult bees are large, long, and venomous, and are a widely distributed, widely distributed, rapidly flying insect belonging to the order Hymenopterae wasps. Females have a powerful long stinging needle that, when attacked or unfriendly, attacks in groups, can cause allergic and toxic reactions, and in severe cases can lead to death. Wasps usually build their nests from soft pulp-like wood pulp and feed on animal or plant foods.
The hive after peeling off part of the shell
Seeing the "Sky Thunder Bee" evoked an unforgettable childhood memory for me! In particular, the crisp and delicious taste of the bee pupae has always haunted my mind, sleeping, lingering, unforgettable in this life.
When I was a child, I herded cattle in my hometown, and the slopes of the small hills were full of various wild grasses, cypress trees, yellow wattle trees, horse mulberry trees and other shrubs.
Small hill
The hillside is both our natural pasture and a childhood paradise. Every time you chase the cows up the hill, you don't have to worry about it. They forage freely, we play freely: look at the white clouds in the sky, catch grass crickets, look for ant routes. Sitting on the top of the hill, watching the car on the other side of the hill, coming out of the front of the car, I saw that the tail disappeared, and the dust rolled up behind the car was very beautiful, and the impression was a beautiful landscape.
bees
Sometimes, we can also look at the wild bee bag hanging on the small tree, and we call it a bee. The bee bee plate is not large, only a small plate, and the bee pupae is not as large as the horse bee pupae. Because the color of the bee bag is similar to the we used to pick up when we were young to earn work and make fertilizer, it is called a bee.
Now I know that their nests are not made of.
bees under the eaves
bees like to build nests on small branches, and some settle under the eaves of people's front and back houses, and even make nests on people's window tiles, I really don't know what their boss thinks? Living in people's houses, windows, and mouths brings trouble to the owner and danger to themselves, and it seems that their "head" is really a mediocre and incompetent person!
bees on window tiles
The bee bag of the bee is small, the number of adult bees is not much, and the toxicity should not be much. At that time, there was no anti-bee suit at all, and we did not know the method of driving away wild bees with smoke, we used animals to animals, strong to weak, to bully the small, although they were often attacked by them, they were stung and screamed, but the delicacy of the bee pupae in the hive attracted us, still moving forward, actively enterprising, trying to drive away the wild bees on the bee bag.
Bee pupae
After driving away the wild bees, the honeycomb is removed, and then the white, chubby, squirming pupae and the weak young bees that have not yet grown into adults are removed from the hive. Find some firewood, light a fire, and roast it to eat. The golden-colored, fragrant bee pupae seemed to have been wrapped around the mouth and stayed in the memory for a long time, never forgetting it in this life.
High-rollers are full
Later, when I went to junior high school, high school, and work, I was busy and never had time to look for peaks and did not have the opportunity to eat the taste in my memory. Even at the peak of life and when the proud friends are full of seats, those mountain treasures and sea flavors in the song and laughter, the jade liquid jelly seems to be no match for the delicacy of those few small "bee pupae".
Silkworm chrysalis
Now that I am idle, the hills of my hometown are still there, and there must be wild bees, maybe more. However, the green water and green mountains, the grass and trees are exuberant, and there is no longer the courage of childhood to return to the small slopes of my hometown to find those wild honeycombs. But an alternative was found, and that was the silkworm chrysalis. Now the market can generally buy, and the price is cheap, green, nutritious, is often cooked to talk about masturbation food, in order to dilute the long-lost thoughts.
I didn't expect to see the "Sky Thunder Bee" for the first time in the vegetable market today, the bee plate is huge, and the fat, cute, bright and colorful appearance of the bee pupae in the hive deeply attracted me, so I did not hesitate to go up to the east to look at it, look at the west, ask this and that, and unlock the doubts in my heart.
The bottle contains adult bees
It turned out that the adult bees in the net and in the bottle were used to make wine. According to the data, bee wine has medicinal effects, can dispel wind and dehumidification, reduce swelling and relieve pain, enhance immunity, nourish yin and aphrodisiac effect.
Bee wine
The queen bees that are searched for and raised will eventually be placed on tall trees near the beekeeper's home. The queen bee will give birth to children on that tree, multiply, and eventually build a large hive.
The price of the bee pupae is 200 yuan a pound, without hesitation to buy a little, after returning home according to the program I have planned in my heart, the simplest and ultimate way to operate: frying, and then put salt, pepper powder, pepper noodles and so on. Careful tasting, chewing slowly, so that all the molecules of the pupae are integrated into the mouth, the taste buds, trying to find and taste the taste of childhood, the impression of the deep memory, but the taste of childhood, the impression in the memory can no longer be found.
Fried bee pupae
Maybe it wasn't originally a bee, maybe it was older, the taste buds had long since lost the sensitivity of childhood, maybe it was too much of a variety of food in the world... In short, the taste of childhood can no longer be found!