Ash worm, one of the insects of China's special resources, the host plants are mainly ash trees, Privet trees. It is a pest that farmers have a headache for, but it is also a precious god insect in the eyes of scientists.
First of all, ash worms are very harmful to saplings, and some places have developed into catastrophic insect pests, and secondly, the light one loses the effect of greening the landscape, and the heavy one causes huge waste in all aspects.
But in the eyes of scientists, ash worms have become god worms again. The main reason is because of the secretions of ash worms.
Ash worm secretion, is a high level of animal wax, high melting point (up to 80 ° C ~ 85 ° C) texture area hard, white color, good transparency, stable performance, strong coagulation, odorless, tasteless, lubrication, widely used in chemical, industrial, pharmaceutical and other industries.
Before the ninth century in China, the history of artificial stocking of ash worms can be found.
It is inferred that the use of insect white wax in China has a history of more than 3,000 years.
Insect ash can be used as an excipient, lubricant for making pills and tablets. And for wound bleeding, sores for a long time, has a very good effect.
It can be seen that sometimes many things are contradictory and unified, and how to turn waste into treasure and how to use it is the most important.