"Spring with birds, summer with thunder, autumn with insects, winter with wind." Autumn is coming, the weather is getting cooler, the insects are beginning to sing, the insect friends are rubbing their hands, this autumn, your favorite songbird is barking? Let's talk to Old Jiang about fun and good song bugs. Today's sharing with you is the knowledge about catching crickets, so that you can quickly grasp the mystery of successful capture.
How do I choose a capture location?
Crickets live in nature, and the sound of crickets can be heard everywhere on autumn nights, but the quality of crickets living in different environments and different locations varies. There is a record in the ancient genealogy of crickets: "Those who come from grass and soil are soft, those born of masonry and stone are rigid in their bodies, and those born in the sand and grass barren soil and masonry pits and sunny land are inferior in nature." "So to catch crickets, you have to choose a suitable place to catch high-quality insects." Otherwise, indiscriminate fishing everywhere regardless of location, catching mostly inferior insects, is a waste of time and energy, often making people very unhappy.
Crickets prefer to inhabit shady places, and there are generally no good insects near people's homes and next to livestock houses. Most of the high-quality insects live on the banks of wild rivers, stone crevices, edamame fields, madi and other places, as well as near ancient temples and abandoned temples and deserts. If you want to catch high-quality crickets, you should go out into the wild, to find them in inaccessible places.
How do I find crickets?
Crickets are diurnal and nocturnal burrowing insects, usually burrowing themselves and living in between. Cricket caves are diverse in form: there are straight holes, oblique holes, curved holes, etc., most of which are shallow, only a few centimeters deep, and some can reach a depth of about 20 centimeters. Cricket caves are often open at both ends, or have multiple exits, and some of the openings are camouflaged with processed small mud particles. There are also crickets that do not burrow, but use natural caves such as wall cracks, gaps in brick piles, and tree holes to inhabit.
Crickets are songbirds that can be traced by sound. Crickets mostly chirp at night, and when captured, they can listen carefully in the ear to distinguish the direction of the sound, and approach slowly with light feet. Some crickets also chirp in the early morning or after 3 p.m., mostly "playing the piano".
Experienced people can even judge the size, color and quality of crickets by sounding. The sound is sharp and continuous, most of them are small insects, and the quality is also inferior; the sound is strong, and the sound is stopped after a few sounds, and the interval is about 15 minutes, and then it is a good insect; the hoarse sound is generally a long-coated broad-winged insect; the sound is wide and with a gong and drum sound, which is generally a yellow worm; the tail of the song with a whistle drag sound, generally a green insect; the end of the sound with 1 to 2 "rustling" sounds, generally purple insects. Female crickets do not chirp, and some male crickets do not have a chirping function, this cricket is commonly known as "following the class", and there are also many high-quality insects.
When is it better to catch crickets?
The chirping of crickets can be heard every year in early August. Crickets are divided into early worms and late worms, and the early autumn insects are early insects, such as some Hang insects are listed here, and the "summer" begins to unearth late insects, such as Shao insects. Early insects can be caught after autumn, and can participate in the fight when they are raised until "white dew", and enter the aging period before and after "frost fall". Late insects, from "summer" to "white dew" as the ideal capture season, "autumn equinox" to "cold dew" is the exuberant period of participation.
On weekdays, it can be caught after 3 o'clock in the afternoon during the day, when the crickets are mostly "playing the piano" and playing love songs for females. Midnight to the next morning should be the best time to catch crickets, you can catch high-quality insects. After a long drought and no rain, the climate is sweltering, and when the weather is clear after a sudden thunderstorm, it is a good time to catch crickets, and this opportunity must not be abandoned.
What tools do I need to catch crickets?
Catching crickets requires some necessary tools, most of which can be made homemade or bought at the cricket market for some spares.
First of all, prepare the flashlight for illumination, and then prepare a considerable number of bamboo tubes or reed cylinders (can also be rolled into a finger-thick paper cylinder; about 7 to 8 cm long, seal one end, temporarily substituted) for insects. When using a paper tube to catch insects, the time should not be too long, otherwise the crickets will bite through the paper tube to escape.
In addition, prepare an iron shovel and a small shovel for digging holes. Bring some water appropriately for irrigation. The most important thing is to prepare 1 or 2 mesh covers for use as networms. The mesh cover can be woven with fine copper wire and coarse wire. However, this kind of mesh cover has a disadvantage: after covering the crickets, because the crickets jump, it is easy to hurt the head and feet of the crickets. At present, many people use nylon wire to weave a mesh cover, because of its good elasticity, it will not damage the insect body.
How do I catch crickets?
Catching crickets is a hard job and a pleasure. You can usually travel in groups or on your own. When the autumn night is clear, away from the noisy crowds, we come to the quiet nature, look at the twinkling stars, listen to the song of autumn insects, is not a self-enjoyment? At this time, we can gradually enter the role with the experience of the sound foraging insects introduced earlier.
When catching crickets, long clothes and trousers should be worn, and long boots should be worn on the feet to prevent snake bites. After finding the target, pay attention to observing the surrounding environment, judge the structure of the cricket cave, cover the hole with a mesh cover, and then use an iron braze or shovel to drive the cricket out of the hole from the other end into the mesh cover, and capture it in time. If the cave is curved and deep, water can be poured to repel insects and make it float out of the hole. It is also possible to put bait at the mouth of the cave to lure it out of the hole. If the cave is shallow and accessible on both sides, soft grass can be used to drive crickets out of the hole from one end and into the net. In the past, some people also used fruits such as pears or apples, dug holes in the middle, placed at the mouth of cricket holes, and crickets were crickets foraging in the fruit with the aroma of fruit.
Freshly crickets, wild and fierce, should be put into the prepared cricket basin in time to rest, to adapt to the environment. After selection, it is prepared with food to nourish and recharge its strength, so as to facilitate future fights.
(Note: Source Jiang Qinghai, January 2000, "Songworm Appreciation and Feeding 300 Answers" • Nanjing: Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House)
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