The first time I saw the stove horse, I didn't know its name, but I found it ten years later. The idiom "clue" of "horse" is the explanation of insects, although it is very impressive, but did not think to look at the actual image of this "horse".
Once, I was collecting clutter in the damp shed in the backyard of my home, lifting a few pages of bricks at the foot of the wall, and suddenly saw several strange spiders with thigh lengths that had never been seen before, colored like crickets, but looked like grasshopper bugs. It was already early November, and the bug was acting stupid, perhaps because of the sudden exposure or the feeling of cold. It survives in a dark corner, and its body color is not only black, but also white and transparent. The grasshopper in memory, there is no such color.
Stove horse
In mid-October, I climbed the mountain to Qinling Meridian Yu and photographed a beautiful green grasshopper on the chestnut leaf leaves of the mountain beam. Back to the "textile lady" entry search on the Internet, and then with the "ant" item to check the picture, the results, not only confirmed the "textile lady", but also additionally implemented the name and reality of the "stove horse", solved the confusion for many years. In the next two or three days, on the cement road of the community compound and the brick steps of the adjacent street, I saw the stove horse that was walking around without any care, and the stove horse that saw the light was very different from the stove horse hidden in the dark ten years ago.
Textile Lady
Stove horse, Chinese scientific name " Diestrammena japonica " ( ) , also known as camel borer , stove chicken , orthopterae cave borer family. It can be seen in all seasons, often in the crevices of stoves and debris piles, feeding on leftovers, plants and small insects, and is a well-known cave and social insect, which is widely distributed in China. The body of the talisman is 36 to 38 mm long, the body color is reddish brown or black brown, the back is protruding like a hunchback, and the dorsal plate of the front chest has two inconspicuous longitudinal stripes, no wings, and the hind legs rub to make a chirp. Breeding is at its peak in early summer, and the females choose larger males and climb up their backs to mate. Every time an adult mates, the body ages once until it dies. Today, the insect is rare due to the use of modern kitchen equipment by urban dwellers, but it is still abundant in rural areas or small towns.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Stove maxin, salty, warm, into the lungs, spleen and two meridians." The spines can be pulled to reduce swelling. Bamboo is stabbed into the meat and pounded externally. ”