Introduction: The pest commonly known as "Xiucai" is a delicacy for many people when they were children, but now it is difficult to find it
In the past, the rural wilderness, the vegetation was rich and the number of insects was abundant, and whenever the school was out of school, the first thing to put down the school bag was to run to the field, where there were many, many interesting things. Catch butterflies, catch grasshoppers, sometimes encounter loud grasshoppers, grasshoppers as a well-known insect, in the past under the eaves of the countryside is often its figure, the use of sorghum straw woven into a small cage, inside a verdant grasshopper, the hotter the weather the more the grasshopper barking louder and louder.
Grasshoppers are also the most common insects in the wild, the most common is the flying locust, but the locust is good at flying, it seems to be a lot, but it is not easy to catch. What is easy to catch is a kind of grasshopper, not only big, but also clumsy and clumsy and flying very slowly. It is easy to catch, this grasshopper is commonly known as "Xiucai", probably because of the short two tentacles, it looks very much like the hat of xiucai in the singing, plus the slender turquoise appearance of the body, it looks particularly delicate, so it is called xiucai.
Xiucai's scientific name is called Chinese grasshopper, also known as Bian Dan, Lao Bian, and many other common names. It is a grasshopper with a very wide distribution area, with a large and slender head, long legs and a long belly, not good at flying, although good at jumping, but not fast and easy to catch. Chinese grasshoppers like to appear in farmland, roadside ditches, woods, in the past a large number is easy to catch, leisure time to catch Xiucai, after catching with dog tail grass string, soon you can catch a large bunch. This kind of show talent is a rare and delicious ingredient.
Summer and autumn are a good season to catch talent. This clumsy big grasshopper, the huge belly is full of butter, and in the autumn there will be full of eggs, these eggs look crystal clear and full of particles, roasted and put in the mouth to chew crunchy, a unique fragrance in the mouth, grasshoppers are the favorite of many children. After catching it, it will light a fire in the ground, put the skewered grasshoppers into the fire and grill, and soon the grasshoppers will turn from green to brown, and the fragrance will gradually spread, and sometimes the grasshoppers will be roasted because of the fire, and the color will become black after eating all the mouths are black.
The grains of grasshoppers are fragrant and numerous, and in the past they were made into grasshopper sauce by villagers. The sauce of these grasshopper seeds is stored in a small jar and can be eaten for a long time, and grasshoppers are not only edible, but also a traditional medicine. It is captured and stored dry, which is a traditional Chinese medicine with a wide range of uses. Grasshoppers, although many benefits, are still a pest of farmland, this grasshopper has a mixed diet, the main food source is the leaf stems of crops in the farmland, coupled with the large number in the past, so it is very destructive to the growth of farmland crops.
In recent years, the number of grasshoppers has decreased significantly, many times to go to the countryside of the wild almost can no longer see the figure of grasshoppers, only in some far away from the number of farmland, grass, can occasionally see the existence of grasshoppers, the reason why the number of reduction can not be seen, but also with the use of a large number of pesticides in the farmland in these years, although this grasshopper seems to be very large, but for pesticides, almost has a majeure, as long as the pesticide will hang up, so there has been a sharp decrease in the number, so there has been a sharp decrease in quantity. Have you ever eaten this very large grasshopper? Welcome to add comments and comments.