Text/Photo/Farmer Saburo
What is it that can run amok in the countryside and be unable to protect itself after entering the city? That's what we saw in the image above. If you're not from the countryside, you might have a hard time recognizing what we're seeing in the image above. There are no beggars here, and those things are the scenes we photographed during a locust plague. Those dense things on the corn are locusts.
Locusts this kind of thing, strictly speaking, is a bug, in our countryside can really be rampant for many years, these small things, usually see three two may still feel nothing, once they multiply in large quantities, millions, that is bad to home, everywhere you go, it is simply a piece of armor left. Looking at the picture above, do you dare to imagine that this was originally a cornfield full of seedlings and grains?
In the past few decades, our peasant uncles have eaten the bitter head of this kind of insect every three to five years, even if they are small, they still have a little cute temperament, but we farmers have never regarded them as any good goods, as long as we see them, as long as there is nothing important at hand, it will inevitably be eliminated quickly.
Even in our rural areas, many children idle and have nothing to do, will deliberately carry bags to catch this kind of thing to torture, in fact, they are treated as toys, but these toys are difficult to escape the fate of death in the end, not that we rural people are cruel, but these things are too bad. Don't look at how docile they usually are, once they are bad, the peasants are miserable.
In the picture above, an old peasant uncle grabs a large bag of locusts from his own field and intends to burn them all with fire.
If you can't see what the locusts look like in the previous picture, then let's take a look at the locusts here, this is the two locusts that are mating and laying eggs, a male and a female, as for who is male and who is female, Xiaobian guesses, it should be the upper is the male bar, the female size may be larger.
Of course, this is just one kind of locust, there are many, many kinds of locusts in the countryside, but they are all the same, many areas are also called grasshoppers, we call it more grounded here - bia bia (forgive me for not being able to write it in Chinese characters), maybe in other regions, there will be many strange names, but each name is an expression of rural people, a culture that should be respected.
Speaking of locusts, it should be a pest, in the countryside, their occupation is to eat grass, it does not matter, but the water flows to a low place, the insects go to a high place, they will also eat crops. On weekdays, the peasants will recognize it casually, but once they multiply in large quantities, that is, even the roots of the crops, they will eat all of them, imagine how hateful it is for farmers to work hard for a year, and in the end let you eat the essence at once.
However, the millions of grasshoppers flew by, and no living force could stop them, it was simply a tyrannical way to reach home, and at that time, we peasants could only watch it.
However, this kind of insect that runs rampant in the countryside, after entering the city, it is a cold and hot day, people will skewer them up and eat them, fry this to eat, cook and eat them with sesame sauce, not a little brother will eat them raw, eat them alive. What runs rampant in the countryside has suddenly become the meat of people's mouths in the city, and they can eat as much as they want. Maybe that's fate, haha.
Therefore, in recent years, a beautiful thing has arisen in the countryside, that is, to catch locusts and send them to the city, and even some people will build greenhouses to breed locusts in large quantities, so that they can be sent to the city for people to enjoy. These insects, which have been rampant in the countryside for many years, have now become a small way for our farmers to obtain foreign income, and it can be regarded as a small beautiful thing.