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"The black charcoal is ripe, and Dongkui will not be available for another week. Overall, this year's bayberry harvest is bumper, and the total production is expected to be 1.5 times that of last year. On June 2, in Baipo Village, Dujia Town, Rong County, the person in charge of Zigong Guoxiangshan Ecological Agriculture Development Company told reporters that in the past few days, the temperature in our city has gradually risen, and 2,000 mu of bayberry has matured, and it is time to taste bayberry for another year.
Bayberry is a niche fruit with a moderate sweet and sour taste, which can not only be eaten directly, but also processed into dried bayberry, sauce, and preserves. Sparkling wine with bayberry has the functions of quenching thirst, nourishing and aiding digestion.
The reporter saw in this largest bayberry planting base in Sichuan that the "black charcoal" with deep purple color, sweet taste and small size is the best selling appearance and has become the first choice for tourists. The "Dongkui", which is green and red, has thick flesh and a large size, although it has a lovely appearance, it will take about a week to fully ripen.
At the huge bayberry plantation base, the ring road is like a tourist trail, connecting the bayberry forests that stretch several mountains. At 10 a.m. that day, many "good eaters" had stopped to feast under the trees covered with crimson "gems". The villagers who worked here were picked, sorted and loaded into trucks tree by tree under the leadership of the staff of the Guoxiang Mountain Ecological Agriculture Development Company.
"I picked 3,000 jin this morning, and it has been sold to Chengdu, Nanchong and other surrounding cities. The most worrying thing now is that there is no one to pick the fruit, and it may be necessary to increase the number of people in two days. The person in charge of Guoxiangshan Ecological Agriculture Development Company told reporters.
With the good reputation accumulated over the years, bayberry is a loud golden signboard in Dujia Town. "This year's bayberry picking festival is about to open, and various activities will be carried out to attract tourists from Leshan, Yibin, Luzhou, Neijiang and other surrounding cities to come and have a taste." The main person in charge of the Dujia Town Government said.
It is reported that at present, the bayberry planting base in Baipo Village has formed a composite sales model with picking as the main and wholesale as the supplement. This year, bayberry has entered the peak fruit period, and it is expected that the average mu yield is about 2,000 jin.
Help you unlock the little knowledge about bayberry——
Bayberry has worms that can't be eaten? Learn about these and eat with confidence!
It's another year's bayberry season, and this sweet and sour fruit is a favorite of many people.
However, although the bayberry is delicious, there is one thing that people can't eat at ease - the bayberry is soaked in salt water, and small white bugs will always crawl out.
Is the bayberry worm spoiled? Where did these bugs come from?
Why is bayberry prone to bugs?
The edible part of the bayberry is a fleshy exocarp, which is hard and sour when unripe, and very soft when fully ripe, and a sweet red juice will flow out when touched.
It is precisely for this reason that bayberry is unbearable to transport, in the past inconvenient transportation era, only people in the production area of bayberry can eat fresh bayberry, and people north of the production area can only taste pickled bayberry to relieve hunger. Fortunately, modern transportation technology is much more efficient than the horse-drawn carriages of the past, and even those living in the northernmost part of the country can eat this southern delicacy.
In addition to being intolerant to storage and transportation, coupled with the fleshy exocarp of bayberry, it makes it easy to attract insects. Think about it, the tender and tender fleshy part is so bright and exposed to the outside, there is not even a covering shell, and when the wind blows, the sweet fragrance will naturally attract insects to patronize.
What kind of bug is the easiest to recruit bayberry?
The bugs that bayberry recruits are actually more or less touched by everyone who eats fruits - fruit flies.
Drosophila is a collective name for a variety of members of the genus Drosophila, their fecundity is very strong, from egg hatching to larvae to pupae, adult process is very short, in the temperature of about 25 ° C only about 10 days to complete their life. In addition to finding the right restaurant for themselves to eat a sugary meal, mature female fruit flies also need to find suitable places for their offspring, and fruits with high sugar content are their favorite.
In addition to bayberry, cherries, watermelons, citrus, etc., as long as they are fruits with suitable sugar content, are easy to attract fruit flies. Even if the skin of the flesh has been eaten by humans, fruit flies do not dislike it.
And the bayberry, which is rich in juice, high in sugar and has no extra protection, is a favorite of fruit flies. In addition, the season when the bayberry hangs on the tree is the season for the development and reproduction of fruit flies, and the bayberry has naturally become a golden place for fruit flies to lay eggs.
Choosing a location, female fruit flies lay their eggs in bayberry, which are less than 0.5 mm in diameter and difficult to detect with the naked eye.
After a few days, the eggs hatch into larvae and feast on them in delicious fleshy exocarp until they are forced out by humans with salt water. Or, along with the delicious pulp, enter the human belly.
Bayberry with worms can actually be eaten
In fact, when the bayberry is still in the orchard, the growers will try to prevent the contact between the fruit fly and the bayberry, but they cannot do 100% control.
The traditional method commonly uses insect nets, and covers the bayberry with a fine net, which can not only avoid the entry of fruit flies, but also do not hinder the growth of the bayberry.
In addition, a large number of insect repellent boards and other appliances will be placed in the orchard at the same time. However, this method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the entire production cost of bayberry will increase, and the natural selling price will also rise.
Another common method is biological control, such as stocking fruit flies' natural enemies in orchards to control them and reduce the number of fruit flies at the source. But this method is equally expensive, and it has not yet achieved the effect of making orchards completely free of fruit flies.
Since the fruit is directly ingested, it is also not possible to spray pesticides directly in the orchard. Therefore, the matter of bayberry worms is still unavoidable.
However, as long as this matter is correctly understood, the larvae of some fruit flies do not need to worry at all.
Many people hear the larvae of "flies" and feel dirty.
But in fact, fruit fly larvae occur in the bayberry fruit from egg to birth, which is relatively clean and will not come into contact with other bacteria.
In addition, there is no need to worry about these small bugs or the eggs that do not hatch in the bayberry, what bad consequences will be brought after being eaten into our stomachs, after all, our stomach acid is quite powerful. If you really don't want to eat fruit fly larvae, wash and soak them thoroughly with salt water before eating bayberry, and the fruit fly larvae will automatically surface, and then rinse them with clean water to eat them with confidence.
Proper salted water soaking can also make bayberry taste sweeter, but it is not necessary to clean it with dish soap, flour, etc., which will damage the fragile flesh of the bayberry and affect the flavor. (Source of popular science text content: CCTV News Client)
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