I remember when I was a child, in my rural hometown of Weizhou Island, there were always many flowers and trees in front of the door, accompanied by the swaying sea breeze, green and green, and there were many kinds of well-known or unknown bugs. Every morning, you can see a lot of strange bugs coming out to feed, and children who are greedy for a little will catch some to play. The following kind of insect is a very common insect in the countryside, but slowly with the urbanization of the countryside, many places can no longer see its figure, I don't know if you have it there?
This insect is called "bean worm" in Weizhou Island, and it is also called "blind cat tip" or "day moth worm", but the real scientific name is "bean day moth", and rural children almost all know it. This is a mollusk that eats bean leaves and drinks dew for a living, its nutritional value is very high, and it is now widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of repelling cold and warming the stomach and lowering blood pressure. The bean moth is beautiful in shape, similar to a silkworm, the larval state is about 5 centimeters long, tender green, and the head has two fast blue spots, which look like two blue eyes, much like the alien bugs in science fiction movies.
In fact, this insect will only maintain a larval state for a period of time, and will soon hatch into a butterfly and grow wings. When it grows up, this insect has excellent flight ability, day and night, can fly far away to forage, eat nectar, is the natural enemy of many crops, can be said to be a pest. They also lay eggs on plants such as oleanders and bean leaves.
The bean moth does not have high requirements for the growth environment, and there are no special requirements for air and food, which can be said to be common in rural areas. The children in Weizhou are bored in their spare time, and they always like to grab a few to tease, and some of them also specialize in their growth process. However, for this kind of bug, many places are slowly gone, probably because they are urbanized, many plants are gone, there are high-rise buildings everywhere, like this kind of small bugs that grow in the countryside, like fireflies, slowly can no longer be found. Those post-70s and post-80s children, do you remember the bugs that grew up with you in the countryside when you were a child? What is it called in yours?