Snakes are a common animal, perhaps because they are cold-blooded and covered in scales, and in myths and legends, snakes often symbolize evil. For example, the name of the supervillain organization in the Marvel movie is called "Hydra", of course, there are exceptions, and the white snake in "The Legend of the White Snake", one of the four major folk love stories in China, is kind and beautiful.
Regardless of the image of the snake in mythology or film and television, ordinary people do not like snakes very much, except for professional snake catchers, most of them retreat when they encounter snakes. However, in the countryside, snakes often break into the homes of villagers, not only have the possibility of biting and injuring people, but also steal poultry from farmhouses, resulting in economic losses. Therefore, whenever the snakes are active in the summer, the villagers will sprinkle male yellow powder near the house in order to prevent the snakes from entering the house, but the effect is not very good. Why are snakes not afraid of male yellow powder? Could it be that snakes have evolved to resist both male and yellow?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="75" > male yellow</h1>
Before formally exploring why snakes are not afraid of male yellow, we need to know what male yellow is, otherwise we cannot deduce one of them. Male yellow is actually a mineral, and I have heard some people guess according to the word, saying that male yellow is the jaundice of a male creature, which makes people laugh.
Male yellow, commonly known as tetraarsenic tetrasulfide, is one of the sulfide minerals of arsenic, the chemical formula is As4S4, usually orange grained solid or orange-yellow powder, soft in texture, brittle in nature. It is often symbiotic with female yellow, antimony ore, and tatsu sand; after heating to a certain temperature, it can be oxidized into the highly toxic component arsenic trioxide, that is, arsenic.
Unexpectedly, male yellow also has such a connection with the potent poison arsenic, male yellow is mostly found in hot spring sediments and volcanic sediments, the appearance is generally orange-red, the crystal is between transparent and translucent, the naked eye can see that there are impurities, in China's Yunnan, Hunan and the United States and other places more. Because of the lush jungle in Yunnan, people living there are infested by poisonous insects and snakes and other organisms all year round, and the use of male yellow will make most poisonous insects and snakes avoid, which has high practical value.
Xionghuang is still a traditional Chinese medicine, often used as a medicinal herb, after research and observation found that Xionghuang has a certain resistance to tumors, but when used, it will cause corrosion damage to cells. It is mostly used for external use, such as fungal infections on the skin.
Another common use is to soak the ground male yellow powder and wine together, and soak it into male yellow wine and sprinkle it around the house, so that snakes do not want to come closer. Of course, Xionghuangjiu is also a kind of medicinal liquor, and some parts of China have the custom of drinking Xionghuangjiu during the Dragon Boat Festival, which means to drive away evil spirits.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="81" > snakes are afraid of irritating gases</h1>
Villagers who used the ancient method to sprinkle male yellow powder around the house found that the male yellow powder was invalid, and the snake easily crawled over the male yellow powder, was it really the snake that resisted the male yellow? The study showed that this was not because the villagers did not understand the physiology of the snakes. What went wrong was not the male yellow, but the practice of sprinkling it around in a powdery way.
Snakes hate irritating gases because they have a very sensitive sense of smell. The snake's eyes look very scary, but the eyesight is very poor, it can be said that it is highly myopic. Therefore, snake activities mainly rely on the sense of smell and heat sensing system, if the villagers change the male yellow powder to the male yellow wine will produce better results. Because alcohol is exposed to the air, it emits a pungent odor, mixed with the original smell of male yellow, snakes may crawl away when they smell it from a long distance.
According to relevant reports, there are also biologists who have experimented on this phenomenon, put the snake into the experimental box, and sprinkled a lot of male yellow powder in the position where the mouse is tied, but the snake directly rushed forward to eat the mouse, and did not show disgust or fear of the male yellow powder. So they found another box with a choking onion in it, and after putting the snake in it, it did not want to come forward, even if there was a temptation of food, it showed a very disgusted and resistant look.
In addition to liquids such as male yellow wine, which can volatilize irritating gases, tobacco, sulfur and other substances are also nasty substances for snakes. There is also lime, which can be said to be the highest value of the snake resistance found so far, because lime does not need to add alcohol, only water. After the lime meets the water, it will evaporate quickly, and the volatile process produces a stimulating and unpleasant odor, and the lime also has the effect of burns, even if the snake is not afraid of the smell or enter the room, the burns on its body when passing through the lime will also make it turn around and escape.
In addition to the above materials suitable for repelling snakes, the onions used in biologists' experiments are also a good choice, you can grind the onions into juice, add water to stir according to a certain ratio, spray around the house, and the same garlic as the onions is also suitable. However, there are many chemical reagents for repelling snakes on the market, and the liquids added to them have the most annoying taste of snakes, which is both easy to use and convenient.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="87" > overview of snakes</h1>
Snakes are reptiles and have no limbs, so movement and advancement rely entirely on the writhing of the body. Although the eyes of snakes look narrow and long, which makes people shudder, the actual eyesight of snakes is very limited, and it can basically be regarded as blind. So how do snakes strike quickly and accurately to prey? It is to rely on a sensitive sense of smell, to determine the orientation of the prey with the sense of smell, and then quietly crawl to the vicinity of the prey, and hit it with one hit.
There are many types of snakes, there are about 3400 kinds of snakes in the world, and according to scientists, snakes have a long history of existence, and the snake fossils unearthed show that snakes have begun to live on the earth 70 million years ago. Snakes that have undergone many years of evolution will also inhabit different environments, some in caves, some in trees, some on the ground, in addition to freshwater and seawater. It can be said that it is sea, land and air, in addition to not flying in the air, it has been involved.
Snakes are mainly divided into two types, non-venomous snakes and venomous snakes. A non-venomous snake, as the name suggests, is a snake that has no poisonous fangs and does not inject venom into a biting person. The most common non-venomous snake in China is the cauliflower snake, a large but non-venomous snake that often haunts ponds or farmland and likes to eat rats, frogs and other animals. Sometimes they also break into villagers' homes, because there is a certain intersection between habitat and human life, but fortunately, cauliflower snakes are not poisonous, so sometimes villagers will deliberately put it in the farmland to eat rats and prevent rat infestation.
Cauliflower snakes are large and grumpy, so when they encounter poisonous snakes such as the five-step snake. King Cobras also fight with them, and most of the time they win, in addition to the size advantage, there is also a trick is that the cauliflower snake will release a gas, and release the stink when it feels threatened to force the enemy back. As mentioned earlier, it just so happens that snakes are also an animal with an extremely sensitive sense of smell, so other snakes will take the initiative to stay away when they smell the odor of cauliflower snakes, and as for whether the cauliflower snake will smoke itself when it releases the odor, there is no way to know, maybe it has become accustomed to it!
There are still many types of venomous snakes distributed in China, such as the five-step snake, the silver ring snake, the king cobra, etc., which are common venomous snakes. Compared with the more friendly non-venomous cauliflower snake, the threat and aggression of venomous snakes to humans is also stronger, and there are accidents of being bitten and killed by venomous snakes every year in China, which occurs the most in the summer.
Because snakes generally have a hibernation period, in the winter they will sleep in their burrows, do not come out and do not eat. However, in the summer, it is much more active, and the summer is generally the breeding period of snakes, and the snakes in this period are sensitive to movements and will perceive the activities of other creatures in the outside world more obviously.
Most of the hunting time of venomous snakes is concentrated in the night and early morning, and at noon, when the sun is at its peak, snakes will generally hide in the shade of trees or caves to "escape the heat", because the body temperature of snakes is very unstable and needs constant self-regulation, so they prefer to survive in an environment with a small temperature difference of 20 degrees to 30 degrees.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="94" > snake prevention measures</h1>
Spraying irritating fluids around the house can prevent snakes from breaking into the house, so what about encountering snakes while playing in the wild? Next, we will introduce several ways to prevent snakes and the measures that need to be taken in time after being bitten by a poisonous snake, so that you can be prepared for encounters in the wild.
The head of the venomous snake is mostly triangular, the neck is thinner, the tail is short and thick, the color spots are more colorful, the mouth is wide open when biting, and the teeth are longer. Venomous snake bites often leave two rows of deep, thick tooth marks.
Depending on the time of the snake's predation and the season when it is frequent, it is not necessary to go to the mountain forest on the night of summer and autumn, because this time is the time when the poisonous snake hunts. And the snake's vision is not good, after hearing the grass at night, it thinks that the prey is moving, so it goes forward to make a hunting behavior, but accidentally bites the person.
Really bad luck after being bitten do not panic too much, deal with snake bites first to determine whether it is a venomous snake bite, venomous snake bite tooth marks and non-venomous snakes have a certain difference. The tooth marks of venomous snakes are single rows, while the tooth marks of non-venomous snakes are double rows, if it is really impossible to judge, it is treated as a poisonous snake bite first. It should be noted that regardless of whether it is poisonous or non-toxic, it is necessary to go to the hospital in time for medical treatment, and there have been cases of being bitten by a non-venomous snake, so it should be paid attention to after being bitten by a snake.
The main first aid method is to tie it with a rope five centimeters from the center of the wound to prevent the spread of venom in the body. However, the rope should also be moderately relaxed at intervals of ten minutes, and the long-term blood circulation may necrosis of the poisoned place, so do not tie it all the time.
After bundling, rinse the poisoned area with water or tea, and if possible, you can use a compound of potassium permanganate solution for better results. It is best not to use your mouth to suck the venom out, the highly venomous snake venom may put another person's life safety at risk.
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Having said so many bad things about snakes, I also justified the name of snakes. In fact, the snake itself has a high nutritional value, at present, China has a number of special breeding meat snakes for human consumption of farms, snake soup is not only delicious, which contains a lot of nutrients. In addition to being edible, the medicinal value of snakes is also very high, not only can be used to brew wine but also boiled with Chinese medicine.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="101" > conclusion</h1>
The reason why ordinary people have always been convinced of the concept of snakes afraid of male yellow powder is because the understanding of snakes is too little, after the detailed introduction of this article, I believe that everyone now has an understanding of the habits of snakes, and then when doing anti-snake work, it will no longer do useless work. You can also spread this knowledge to other people around them, so that they also know that snakes are really afraid of irritating gases.
As a member of nature, snakes exist justifiably. So most of the time we don't have to have too much malice towards them, as long as humans don't set foot in their territory, snakes won't actively attack humans, which reflects the need for harmonious coexistence.