For the countryside, we all know that there are a lot of insects, especially in the summer to autumn, the rural farmland is more lively, if it is in a place with water, it will be a "chorus" composed of frogs and insects, and there may be fireflies dancing along the river, which looks good and not lively.
Although many friends in the countryside do not like insects in the farmland, but some insects are very expensive in the city, and even many people rely on the insects in these farmland to make a fortune, such as the insects that Xiaobian wants to introduce to you today, because the night is too loud, many rural people call it "ground horn", so it is indeed very image, because the "ground horn" is too harmful to crops, especially peanuts, in the countryside are treated as pests, but in the city has a very high price, There are also specialized research associations.
The so-called "ground horn" is actually a local saying of ours, mainly to feel noisy, but if it is occasionally heard, or a different state of mind, it may not feel noisy, but it is another unique sound in the countryside, who can not think, rural people look worthless ground horn, but also once sold 110,000 yuan a high price, today we will go together to understand.
It may be said that there are not many friends who know the ground horn, but if you want to talk about clams, there are more people who know. Not bad! Our so-called ground horn, is often said in the books, is also a common pest in the countryside, because of the great harm to crops, in addition to children like to catch to play, rural people hate them, especially at night, has been barking non-stop, some even into the corner of the home to hide and shout, noisy all night insomnia, it can be said that many rural people are very disgusted.
In fact, the ground horn is an ancient insect, according to the study of the Chinese tree cricket genus (Orthoptera: Tree Crickets):
Crickets are also known as night bugs, general bugs, autumn bugs, cockfights, etc., and are at least 140 million years old.
Crickets are distributed in many places in China, and have been regarded as pests in many places, according to the Systematics Study of the Chinese Cricket Family (Orthoptera: Crickets General Family) records:
The roots, stems, leaves, fruits, seeds and seedlings of plants will become food for crickets, especially the damage to peanut seedlings is extremely serious, and the damage of crickets in the southern region reaches 11% to 30% of peanut seedlings.
Judging from this destructive power, we rural people no longer hate crickets as much.
Friends who grew up in the countryside want to believe that they have done one thing, that is, to catch different bugs to fight, crickets are the ones we love to catch more, and the aggressive habits of crickets are not developed in modern times, that is in the distant ancient times, and the ancient people's love for crickets is no less than that of modern people.
For ancient times, people who can generally afford to play crickets are those who are high-ranking officials and nobles, and they don't care how much good crickets can be said to cost, especially crickets with strong fighting ability, which can be sold at a better price, but after all, it is ancient, how much money can be sold Is difficult to verify, but the value of crickets has not decreased so far, and now many places have "cricket associations", and even special breeding places and trading places.
According to a report by Xiaoxiang Morning News on August 24, 2020, crickets have sold for 110,000 yuan in Ningyang County, Shandong Province, and the local government relies on crickets to bring an annual output value of 600 million yuan.
Since crickets were able to sell for 110,000 last year, why do we rarely see anyone buying crickets in our lives? In fact, crickets have become a hobby of some people, so playing crickets also has a regionality, if we do not enter the circle, naturally do not know the hidden value of crickets, as in the above news reports, the price of 110,000 sold alone, if we do not enter the road, it is also an ordinary pest, but if we enter the road, maybe we accidentally stepped on it, that is, 100,000.
Some friends may have seen people breed crickets, because there are now a large number of people selling crickets on the Internet. For the kind of crickets we mentioned above, it is certainly not ordinary, so what is the use of crickets purchased by the pound on the Internet? According to the editor's observation, in fact, crickets have two uses in addition to fighting.
(1) Eat: Crickets are a kind of bug, and from the above introduction we have found that crickets eat "vegetarian", so from the perspective of people's eating habits, crickets are also suitable for eating, so there are people on the Internet who sell crickets in large quantities, one of the purposes is to eat for people who like to eat.
(2) As a Chinese herbal medicine: We all know that many plants and animals have certain medicinal value, crickets are no exception, and also have certain medicinal value, so another purpose of crickets currently sold in large quantities is to be sold as Chinese herbal medicines. What else do you know about these uses of crickets? Feel free to share below.