Big and small news november 17 news (today's Longkou author Wang Dongchao)
Pear Tsubaki Elephant = Stinky Big Sister
The pear tree is an insect of the family Hemiptera and is the main pest of the pear tree. Huangxian is the hometown of the long pear, the pear tree elephant is still relatively common, its body is shield-like flat, pear bark color, lying on the branches of pear trees is difficult to find. He likes to suck the sap of the young buds, new leaves, young shoots and fruits of the pear tree, which can make the branches die and the fruit become hard, deformed, like wood slag, and inedible. Therefore, the pear farmer must want to get rid of it quickly, the pear tsubaki elephant self-protection means in addition to the invisibility cloak, there is a stink gland on the buttocks, in the face of the enemy will spray oil-like liquid, stained on the hands for a while and a half will not be washed clean, so Huangxian dialect called it "stinky big sister". "Big Sister" is to describe pear tsubaki elephant dressed plainly, like a simple peasant woman, that feels very in place, but the eldest brother will definitely be unhappy. I remember learning a text in elementary school, Yellow Oriole and, which told the natural common sense story of yellow oriole catching curly leaf insects and catching pear tsubaki elephants, and I was very sad for the for a while.
Oxfly = blind midge
The bullfly is called "blind midge" in Huangxian dialect, because it is self-assured and strong, not "Sven" like a mosquito, but rampage, suddenly east and west, as if the eyes are not good. Blind midges bite cows and horses, and sometimes bite people, especially when they go down to the river to bathe in the summer, blind midges fly in circles on the surface of the water, taking advantage of the fact that people are not ready to take a bite. Blind midges bite people especially painful, it is like giving a needle for a cow injection on a person's buttocks, compared to it, mosquitoes can only say that it is not too gentle.
Seven-star ladybird = flower coverworm
Seven-star ladybirds are insects of the Coleoptera family, feeding on aphids and are famous agricultural beneficial insects. The body is round, the back is arched, like an inverted small scoop, and there are seven black dots on the wings, so it is called "seven star ladybug", huangxian dialect called "little daughter-in-law", may look flowery, like a little daughter-in-law wearing flower clothes, hey, it is a name that makes men want to cry without tears. There are also called "flower cover worms", and its larvae look a bit like the larvae of grasshoppers, and also feed on aphids.
Lice = lice eggs
Nowadays, people have good hygiene conditions, often bathe and change clothes, many people do not know what lice are, but in the evolutionary history of human beings, lice are one of the most "intimate" insects with human relations, almost becoming a must-have for home travel. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Shan wrote a poem called "New Words of Lice", and in the eyes of the ancients, it was a very elegant thing to talk about poetry while catching lice. In our junior high school biology class, the teacher got a microscope, but there was no material to observe, and a classmate volunteered to feel a lice from his arms, so that we could know that the lice turned out to be six legs. The yolk county dialect of the lice is called "lice", the lice are small enough, and there is a saying in the Huangxian dialect called "eat a lice to fight for a leg", which contrasts the heart with the small size of the lice. The lice is even smaller, much smaller than a sesame seed, almost invisible to the naked eye, only a small white dot is seen, but many eggs are densely packed together, in the folds of the clothes, on the roots of the hair, a piece of white flowers, it looks like people's hearts are numb. In the past, in addition to combs, there would be a grate in the house——— made of bamboo, with beams in the middle and extremely dense teeth on both sides. Grates are specially used for "grate" lice in the hair.
Rice elephant = worm = slug
Rice elephants, insects of the Coleoptera weevil family, also the size of sesame seeds, are the main pests of stored grains, harming rice, rice, wheat, corn, sorghum and so on. The head of the adult worm protrudes forward like an elephant trunk, and feeds on rice, so it is called "rice elephant", commonly known as "slug", and the Huangxian dialect is called "worm". When grain is stored for a long time, it is easy to attract worms, mothing wheat and corn out of holes, and some even have only a layer of skin left. Pick a good day, put the grain of the insects under the sun to dry, after a while, the dense small black worms will swarming out——— perhaps the ancients looked like running sheep, so they took the name of "slugs" to find a cool place——— and crush it with their feet, it will "click" with sound. By the way, there is a kind of insect in The Huangxian dialect called "sharp worm", the scientific name should be cryptoptera, small in size, pointed in the ass, short elytra, most of the abdomen is exposed, it looks like there are no wings, so it is called "cryptoptera". In the summer, it is cool outside and often makes it bite. Falling on the arm, if a slap is slapped to death, there is an acidic toxin in its body fluids, which will burn people's skin, cause allergic dermatitis, and will play a "skimming", and serious blisters. Therefore, the old man describes people as "sharp", that is, to over-calculate their own interests, and will say "you look at you and a sharp worm". Sharp grasshoppers are also coleoptera, and perhaps in the Huangxian dialect, insects with the word "worm" have hard and shiny shells.
Ant = cockroach
In the Huangxian dialect, ants are called "cockroaches", which is really graphic. Ants are hymenopteran insects, and they are distant relatives of bees, whether they are in appearance or social life in groups. The slight difference is that ants have special soldier ants, while bees are all soldiers and are not specially equipped with security forces. The earliest ants were supposed to be similar to bees and also had wings, as can be seen from the fact that queens and males had wings before mating. Because of the long-term ground habitat and cave life, the pair of wings was too obstructive and slowly degenerated. People who have dug through the ant holes know that ants, especially very small ants, eggs are very small, small like lice, look white, Huangxian dialect called "cockroach eggs". The word "slug" of the cockroach indicates that ants and slugs are more similar, from the size, from the color, from the way they run in groups, they are somewhat godlike. Therefore, the word cockroach is a combination of the two characteristics of the previous people who grasped the lice and the slug, "slug" here gently rhymes, "iang" is pronounced as "ing", "poplar" and "spread" are all read like this. There are many types of lice, there are almost 9,000 species in the world, the size of the individual varies greatly, there is a kind of big cockroach that likes the tree, Huangxian dialect is called "horse lice slug", which is what the ancients called "grasshopper", Han Yu wrote in the "Tuning Zhang Book": "The grasshopper shakes the big tree, ridiculous and not self-measured." "Horse lice slugs go up the tree just to find stuttering, don't want to be ridiculed, and the praying mantis that "uses the mantis arm as a car" has become a difficult brother.
In Huang County, there is also a folk taboo, adults will warn children, do not pee on the nest of clams, otherwise the "little birds" will be red and swollen at night. In fact, this is a scientific reason, the cockroach will secrete ant acid, lick the ass of the worm knows, there will be a sour taste, similar to white vinegar. When the nest of a cockroach is attacked by water, the angry slug may pout its ass and spray formic acid, which can cause allergic reactions when it touches the skin. Adults stand tall and pee far away, there is not much obstacle, and if children shoot low, they will inevitably be a little dangerous. Therefore, behind many seemingly strange taboos, there are hidden etiquette or safety considerations, but people generally do not like the preaching of sitting on the edge, but like the taboos of the gods and gods.
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