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"Knowing the monkey" in many places across the country
It is a dish that is loved by people
It has a unique taste after being fried at high temperatures
Nanchang citizen: I don't dare to eat if I haven't eaten it. I only heard that I could make traditional Chinese medicine, but I didn't dare to eat it.
Nanchang citizen: I haven't eaten it.
Nanchang citizen: I have eaten, and I have eaten in Guizhou recently.
Nanchang citizen: I have eaten it when I was a child, and the little one who knew it was roasted on fire, and the taste was okay and average, anyway, there was no seasoning, and the taste was faint and a little fragrant.
It is understood
"Knowing the monkey" has fried and stir-fried
Barbecue and other ways to eat
It is a unique dish on the table in many regions
In some areas
The sale of "knowing the monkey" also became
A good way for ordinary people to increase their income
Well, a large number of catch and eat "monkeys"
Will it have an impact on the environment?
Is the monkey a pest or a beneficial insect?
Are there any safety risks associated with eating "Knowing Monkeys"?
Will mass predation affect the ecology?
Here's what the experts have to say
According to experts, the "Zhili monkey" is a larva of Zhizhi, also called "golden cicada", which belongs to the Hemiptera cicada family. It generally lives in the soil, and the best season for harvesting in the field is mid-June and late June every year. They usually begin to be unearthed in the late summer evening and continue into the evening. After feathering into an adult, the shed shell has a certain medicinal value, which is called cicada molt in traditional Chinese medicine, which is a very traditional and very important medicinal material.
Wei Meicai, professor at the School of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University: The larvae make a small nest in the soil, close to the roots of the tree, and suck the roots of the plant and inhale its sap to feed themselves. When it grows up, it crawls out and crawls along the trunk of the tree to shed a layer of skin. Knowing that living on trees also feeds, it uses its mouth needle to stick in the branches of plants and suck the sap of plants, and in this way feeds. Therefore, feeding in this way is actually harmful, causing the outside tree, especially the branches, to be nutriently eroded, affecting the growth of the tree.
"Monkey" is a herbivorous insect, which not only affects the growth of trees in terms of feeding, but also has a certain impact on trees when laying eggs. The female "monkey" will use the ovipositor to prick a circle of small holes in the young branches, lay the eggs inside the wood of the tree, and at the lower end of the young branches, use the mouthparts to puncture a circle of bast, so that the branches are cut off from the supply of water and nutrients, and the young branches gradually die.
Wei Meicai, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University: So this kind of insect is a pest in a broad sense, and a pest in forestry. So in terms of edible resources, in the past, when China was relatively backward and food resources were not rich enough, this was a very good food to attract children, so there must be no problem in eating it, and there is no problem in health. So far, there have been no reports of any parasites that are harmful to us humans, and they live in symbiosis with it, so the health problems are not too big.
so
If a large amount of predation
Will it destroy the ecological balance?
Wei Meicai, professor at the School of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University: As an ordinary herbivorous insect, there are many insects similar to it, and there are other herbivorous insects without knowing that monkeys will have them. As a harmful herbivorous insect, if its population is large, our professional plant protection workers need to find a way to control it and not let its population explode. Knowing this way, it should be said that scientists do not shy away from it. You can eat it, there are actually a lot of organisms, and eating it is a very effective way to solve the current overbreeding of important pests and important pests.
Civilized Catch "Monkey" Don't be in a hurry
Experts said that the act of predating on the monkey itself will not only not have an impact on the ecological environment, but also control the outbreak of the monkey population and reduce the harm to trees from the perspective of plant protection. However, because the larvae of the "monkey catcher" live in the soil, some of the "monkey catchers" in the "monkey hunting army" rely on their strength to "dig up the monkeys", which will cause damage to the soil surface in the process.
Wei Meicai, a professor at the School of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University: So this kind of behavior itself should not be encouraged, as people who like to eat monkeys, it is recommended that everyone do not dig the monkeys in the soil, and wait until it climbs the trees to pick it, this behavior should be no problem. It will not affect the protection of the soil, nor will it damage the environment of weeds, which is not a big problem from an ecological point of view.
Finally, I would like to remind you foodies
Because the "monkey" is rich in protein
and contains high levels of purines
So for protein allergies
People with acidemia and gout
It is not recommended to consume large quantities