We all know that the scorpion is one of the five poisons, since ancient times it has been regarded as a poison, always presented to the public in a negative role, in fact, although the scorpion is the first of the five poisons, it is not useless, and even its value is far more than we imagine.
Although the scorpion is difficult to climb the elegant hall, but it is a kind of medicinal value of high medicinal materials, from ancient times to the present is many Chinese medicine particularly favored by a taste of traditional Chinese medicine, scorpion body can be used to treat epilepsy, rheumatism, half-body failure and other symptoms, scorpion venom on the wind, detoxification, pain relief also has a good effect.
In addition to medicinal value, scorpions are also the favorite of some food lovers, especially in recent years, with the prosperity of the night market economy, some specialty food stalls began to appear in the figure of scorpions, attracting a large number of "foodies" who have a special love for wild game, artificially raised scorpions are more and more difficult to meet the growing market demand, some people will shift their attention to wild scorpions, driven by interests, gradually form a "scorpion hunting army", they lie out at night, a night profit is less than a hundred, high is more than 10,000, Especially in the Helan Mountains, catching scorpions has formed a huge black production.
Helan Mountain is located at the junction of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China, the altitude is 2000-3000 meters, the local soil is stony mountainous, the vegetation coverage is low, the land is barren, the unique geomorphological characteristics and ecological environment provide a good habitat for scorpions, they hate light during the day they live in stone crevices, caves, come out at night to forage, most scorpions are living together, it is this habit that gives some people the opportunity to take advantage of.
According to the local perennial scorpion catcher for a living, they are generally after 8 p.m., focusing on "sweeping" the bushes and gravel slopes, in addition to targeted searches, they are also equipped with special equipment, because scorpions are sensitive to light, use ultraviolet light to assist the capture work, in the second half of the night, around 2 a.m., scorpions will return to the nest, which is a good opportunity for the "scorpion hunting army", it is a good opportunity for "a pot end", some people can catch hundreds in just 3 hours, profit thousands, What's more, people who organize large-scale scorpion hunting make a profit of up to 200,000 yuan in one night.
With the growing of the local "scorpion catching army" team, the difficulty of catching scorpions in the wild has increased, the yield has decreased, and some people have even shifted their targets to the Helan Mountain Nature Reserve, and a large number of scorpion catchers have stepped into the nature reserve, causing great damage to the ecological environment in the reserve, and also seriously damaging the local ecological chain, resulting in a large number of pests such as locusts and scorpions.
There was once a data show that in July and September of each year, Ningxia Crescent Lake Township alone has more than 2,000 people every night to catch scorpions, you know, the township residents are only about 10,000 people, which shows how large the team of these scorpion-catching troops, and behind it is the attraction of huge interests, the eager profit seekers are also because of the night driving, carrying people to catch scorpions, traffic accidents, every year will cause some casualties, but they are still happy.
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These almost crazy behaviors, so that wild scorpions face a huge survival crisis, from scorpion larvae to adult scorpions, are difficult to escape the "scorpion hunting army" of the eyes and claws, do not know when, scorpions may also be classified as wild protected animals, at that time, is it difficult to find even the scorpions that have been medicated?