Soon after the winter solstice, Beijing entered a harsh winter and was cold. Sitting in a taxi and listening to the singing section of the Peking Opera "Wild Boar Forest", "Heavy snow flutters in people's faces, and the wind is bitingly cold" is quite appropriate. Suddenly, a series of euphemistic and loud cries of "leisurely and leisurely" came melodiously. What are you? Oil gourd, the fat driver while patting the down jacket while showing it.
It was like two bug friends chatting in the car. It was 1966 when I came into contact with Songworm, and the Cultural Revolution suspended students for some time to play. One day during the winter vacation, I went to the home of my classmate Song Daping to play, and saw a glass fish tank in his house, the sand was covered with green wheat seedlings, and dozens of oil gourds were walking through the wheat seedlings. It feels very novel: how can there be songworms in winter? Daping told me that his father would be a worm, and he would share a batch of oil gourds every year, and then give them to friends and family, so that everyone could share happiness.
A veteran of songworm breeding for many years, the eldest who lives in Niujie Xili was my elementary school classmate. I talked to him about the feeding of songbirds, which are omnivorous insects themselves, and the nutrients it needs during the period of growth and song, such as plant protein and animal protein, are not the same. The vitamins contained in the dish, when the songworms are chirping, they only need to take in the vitamins of the plants. Here it is recommended that you choose to use carrot feeding, other vegetables try not to feed insects, because of the fear of residual pesticides, harmless to the human body and song worms can not stand, to avoid causing unnecessary disasters to song worms and death. There is no need to add other nutrients to the player's hands, mainly vegetarian, so that the life of the song worm will be longer and more beautiful. If you add animal protein to meat food, it is easy to cause abnormal songbirds or reduce lifespan, because in the wild it is mainly vegetables, grasses and other plants as the main food.
Zhang Zengshan, a retired employee of the Dongcheng District Real Estate Center, has just started raising grasshoppers in the past few years after retiring from retirement. Speaking of the usual care of grasshoppers, Shanzi said, usually I feed some carrots, in order to prevent me from feeding the next day, occasionally give some soaked soybeans, and every night I have to release the grasshoppers on the warm and wet towels to shabu-shabu paws... In the winter, many Beijingers raise grasshoppers and oil gourds. In fact, it is a mood. When it snowed heavily outside, and the house listened to the chirping of the oil gourd, the key point was that its sound was gentle. The oil gourd is the least well-bred of the three major songbirds. The oil gourd likes to eat fatty foods, so it is full of oil. You can feed peanuts, sesame seeds, beans. There are not more nutrients, and if there are more, it will reduce its lifespan. Oil gourd belongs to water worms, so it is easy to die without water. In winter, when people go out with oil gourds, they should put the gourds in the arms of their clothes, pull the neckline open a little, and sprinkle happy cries when they are windy and grasshoppers. The keeper pours out the worms every night, sweeps the inside of the gourd with a hard brush, and then retrieves the worms.
The author liked to raise singing insects when he was a child, when he was a child, he went to the vegetable camp to catch clams, and now he raised winter grasshoppers, which may be the grasshoppers who are heated enough in the house to play with the call of life, noisy wife can't sleep, and has no choice but to deal with it. My nephew Dazhong is very researched in playing, and flowers, birds, fish and insects are all involved in hunting. This autumn, Dazhong drove to Tianjin To buy back a few high-grade grasshoppers and put them on a hot kang of his own design to listen to the call. The grasshoppers are very happy to catch the superior environment. Seeing the insect choir so happy, my old sister-in-law went to the kang to get on the waist. Dazhong of the Door Qing Grasshopper Conservation Technique said that after 1 month of hatching after the grasshoppers dumped the seeds, the small insects will come out, about the size of ants, and the larvae of the oil gourd are also the same as the grasshopper larvae, and the whole process needs to go through 7 times of shelling to become an adult insect.
Dazhong said that when grasshoppers are raised, they cannot feed too much to prevent overeating, and newborn insects only feed half a edamame-sized food every day. He also said not to feed the grasshoppers sweet and sticky food. When feeding, try to release the grasshoppers from the gourd to feed, do not feed the bread worms and other on fire food, but feed the corn worms instead. It also avoids eating fruits and vegetables, otherwise the insects are easy to thin, and do not want to be in an overly humid environment, grasshoppers like to be wet, do not feed water when feeding. Dazhong stressed that the cages for raising grasshoppers must be cleaned regularly, and whether the cages are dry or not directly affects the chirping and health of the grasshoppers.
Yin Wei, who lives in Caoqiao Xinyuan, is a veteran of playing with insects, and every year in October, he will buy two grasshoppers beautifully, and for this reason, he also buys various forms of grasshopper cages, including flower gourds, vegetarian gourds, bamboo weaving and pottery. Every morning, the first thing Yin Wei did after getting up was to feed the grasshoppers. Carefully open the lid, one hand to hold up the cage and block the worms trying to drill out, the other hand with a small brush to clean the worm droppings, and then put the cut carrots into the cage, he feeds differently every day, often changing the same. Sometimes the grasshopper sneaked out without paying attention, and Yin Wei caught it lightly and lightly.
The winter sun shines through the glass windows and shines inside the house, warm. The grasshoppers spread out their joyful chirps, and the beautiful voice compared to Piyou made Yin Weidun feel very comfortable.
An Wei, the son of Lao An, a famous "AnJi Song worm" technician in Beijing, is a highly educated song worm researcher. In December 2018, Anjia father and son took 4 of their share of the oil gourd to participate in the "National Oil Gourd Competition" and won the award and overall championship of 3 projects in one fell swoop. Since the beginning of winter, a few insect friends often come to the clinic with their own hoarse and non-brittle grasshoppers. Lao An used a "scramble" made of rosin, cinnabar, and beeswax, and carefully placed it on the wings of the grasshoppers, and the "dumb" grasshoppers immediately sang. Lao An's insect sales this year have greatly improved compared with last year's epidemic impact. Anwei, a young generation who has a lot of insight into insects, said when introducing insect diseases,
To prevent the sound insect fungus, we must grasp the following points: do not buy sick bugs, which can be seen from the spirit and posture of the bugs. 2, short life do not buy, sudden sudden death do not buy, 3, once found that the worm has a problem immediately thrown away, in order to prevent infection. How many germs are there in Songworms? In the early years, we asked Professor Wu Jichuan of the Institute of Entomology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the answer was that the songworm itself had as many as 33 kinds of germs in the body. The reason is that wild insects eat all unturned, rotten food. Part (insect) households pay special attention to pesticide residues during reproduction. Once the breeder finds that the insect is faulty, he needs to pay more attention to the disinfection of the insects. The method is to wipe the worms with white wine or alcohol, disinfect them, and put the worms back after volatilization has no effect on the song worms. Anvey also introduced how to buy high-quality grasshoppers. Pick the wings that have transparent wings like glass on the back, it belongs to the super thick, super hard wings, the sound is pleasant, the sound is vibrating roof tiles, and its arms are black and thick, such a grasshopper can be called "the king of kings".
Yu Qian, a cross-talk actor from Deyun Society, loves to raise insects. Yu Qian said that we ordinary people call the ming insect a hundred days insect, saying that from birth to death, it is a hundred days of work. Good to raise, good to feed, sufficient drinking water, the temperature is also suitable, you can also live for four or five months. Yu Qian said, I really like song bugs. It can hear the sound of barking and barking, it is good, it is not noisy, and the sound is not small. This is a particularly good sound that makes you feel refreshed. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, many people like to raise songbirds.
Source Beijing Daily Client | Author Liu Lianliang
Editor: Zhang Peng
Process Editor Liu Weili