There are many small insects in the countryside, for the farmer uncle waiting for a good harvest, they are divided into beneficial insects and pests, for the "bear children", they are divided into "toys" that can be played and insects that cannot be played, and some special insects have also become childhood memories of generations. For example, we have romantic memories of fireflies; we have beautiful memories of butterflies; we have memories of dragonflies; we have memories of longing to fly; we have memories of disgust for stinky farts. However, there is an insect, and my memory of it can be described in one word, that is, "instigation", it is a kowtow worm.
Kowtow worm, as the name suggests, is a bug that will kowtow, there is a protrusion on the front abdomen of the kowtow worm, just fits in with the groove of the mid-abdomen, using this mechanism plus its muscles, it can form a great impact with the floor when it "kowtows", and the snap forms a flip. In the past, the living conditions were not as good as they are now, and some kowtows often appeared at home, and my grandmother would catch them as toys for me when she picked them up. At that time, I was still a little afraid of this little bug, because it would jump high when it "prostrated its head", very powerful, if you put your nails on its head, it would also be very painful by the impact of its "prostration", and I thought it would bite people. Grandma saw my complaint and explained to me, "Don't be afraid of this bug, in fact, it is kowtowing to you and begging for forgiveness." "
When I was a child, my friends would also catch this bug to play, a group of people watching a bug happened from time to time, they turned the kowtow bug over, put it on the ground, the kowtow bug will perform its unique "carp fight stiff", the higher it bounces, the higher the crowd will be accompanied by the higher the cry. Others will grab the lower body of the kowtow worm and watch it "kowtow" hard. When I grew up, I rarely saw these bugs, and I don't know if it was because their number decreased, or because I had fewer eyes to find them, and the kowtow worm became a childhood memory of me.
Don't look at the kowtow bugs that bring so much fun to our childhood, in fact, most kowtows are pests, especially their larvae. In the south, they will endanger wheat, beans, melons, peanuts, cotton and other crops, so that a large number of crops die, I did not expect that kowtow worms in addition to "kowtow" has such a great power. Farmer uncles often use pesticides to deal with this pest.
Well, the above is my memory of the kowtow worm, have you ever regarded it as a "toy", I don't know if it has aroused your childhood memories?