How to get rid of the fruit in the room?
It's mid-July, and the village is celebrating the National Day tonight. When the children danced around the happy bonfire, when the drums sounded with the fireworks, I was alone in the dark corner, listening to the festival concert in the field, and the program in the field was more solemn than it was in the village square at this time. It is late at night. It's cooler at 9 pm, and cicadas stop chirping. It sings all day and should rest at night, but its rest is often disturbed. Among the dense branches and leaves of the buttonwood tree, a short and sharp cry like a whine suddenly appeared. This is the desperate cry of cicadas caught by the wild hunter green slug during a quiet rest at night. Let's stay away from the noise and listen quietly. While the caught cicada was still struggling, the program on the treetop of the buttonwood continued, but the chorus had changed. Now it's the night artist's turn. People with sensitive ears can hear grasshoppers whispering among the green leaves around the jungle. Like the sound of a pulley, it's inconspicuous, and it's like the faint rustle of dry wrinkled film. In this dumb and persistent bass, there will be a very sharp and quick crisp sound from time to time, almost like the sound of metal collision. This is the singing and music part of Guoguo, and the rest are backup singers. Although the bass of the song has been strengthened, the concert is unremarkable and very unremarkable. Although there are more than a dozen slugs singing in my ear, their voices are not strong, and not all of my eardrums can capture this weak voice. However, when frogs and other insects in the field are temporarily quiet, the little songs I can hear are very soft, which is very suitable for the quiet atmosphere of endless nights. Lvguo, if you play the piano louder, you are a better singer than cicada. In the north of our country, people let cicadas usurp your reputation! In June, I caught many male and female slugs and kept them in my metal net cover. This kind of insect is beautiful. It is green all over, with two pale white ribbons on the side. It has a beautiful figure, slim and symmetrical, and its wings are as light as yarn. As for food, I have the same trouble as feeding cats. I gave them lettuce leaves, and they ate a little, but they didn't like it. I must find another kind of food. They may want fresh meat, but what is it? Early in the morning, I walked in front of the door. Suddenly something fell on the buttonwood tree next to me, making a harsh squeak. I ran over there. It was a slug pecking at the cicada's stomach in despair. I see, the battle took place in a tree, when the cicada was still resting in the morning. Unfortunately, the cicada was killed alive. Suddenly, the attacker and the attacked fell from the tree together. Sometimes, I even see slugs bravely jumping up and chasing cicadas, while cicadas fly around in panic. Like an eagle chasing larks in the sky. But this carnivorous bird is not as good as an insect, and it is weaker than it in attack, while the slug attacks a monster much bigger and stronger than itself. There is no doubt about the results of this hand-to-hand combat of different sizes. Guo has powerful jaws and sharp pliers, so there are few people who can't gut their bellies, because cicadas have no weapons and can only moan and kick around. I found the prisoners' food in my cage, and I fed them cicadas. They ate this dish with relish, so that in two or three weeks, the cage was full of skulls and sternum, torn wings and broken limbs. My stomach was completely eaten, which is a good part. Although there is not much meat, it seems particularly delicious. Because in this part, in the crops, there is a pile of syrup sweet juice that cicadas suck from twigs with their beaks. Cicada's belly is more popular than other parts. Is it because of this sweet food? That's about it. In order to change the food pattern, I also gave Guoguo a very sweet fruit: some pears, some grapes and some watermelons. They all like to eat these. Just as English people love bloody steak with jam, green slugs love sweets. Perhaps this is why it eats its stomach first after catching cicadas, because it has both meat and sugar. You can't eat cicada slough with sugar everywhere, you have to eat something else. For scarab and other insects, it accepted without hesitation and only ate wings, head and claws. All this shows that Guoguo likes to eat insects, especially those without too hard armor. It likes meat very much, but it doesn't only eat meat like mantis. This cicada's butcher fruit, after eating meat and drinking blood, eats the sweet pulp of fruit, sometimes there is nothing delicious, and even a little grass. There is also the phenomenon of cannibalism. It is true that in my cage, I have never seen the cruelty of killing my sister and swallowing my husband like a mantis, but if a slug dies, the living will never miss the opportunity to taste its corpse, just like eating ordinary prey. This is not because of lack of food, but because of gluttony for dead companions. Aside from this, Guoguo gets along well with each other, never quarrels, but is a little hostile to food at most. I threw a pear and a slug caught it at once. If someone bites this delicious food, it will kick the other person away out of jealousy. Selfishness is everywhere. Give way to another slug when you are full, and then you become tolerant. In this way, one by one, all slugs can taste delicious food. When the crops are full, it scratches the soles of its feet with the tip of its beak, wipes its face and eyes with its saliva-stained claws, and then closes its eyes or lies on the beach to digest food. They rest most of the day, especially in hot weather. I have a good environment to study the habits of cicadas, because I live with them. In early July, it occupied the tree in front of my house. I am the master of the family and the supreme ruler outside the door, but its rule will not make people feel comfortable anyway. Cicada was first discovered on the solstice of summer. On the sunny road with many pedestrians, there are many round holes, which are flush with the ground and about the size of a person's finger. In these round holes, cicada larvae crawl out of the ground and become complete cicadas on the ground. They especially like dry and sunny places. Because grubs have a powerful tool that can penetrate baked soil and sand. I dug it with a hand axe when I visited their storage room. The most eye-catching thing is this round hole with a diameter of about one inch. There is no dust around, and there is no soil outside. Most earth-digging insects, such as golden tapirs, always have a mound outside their nests. Cicadas vary according to the way they work. The work of golden pheasant started from the mouth of the cave, so the excavated waste was piled on the ground; But cicada larvae come from underground. The last job was to open the door, because there was no door at first, so there was no dust at the door. Most cicada tunnels are as deep as 15 to 16 inches, and they are always unimpeded. The lower part is wider, but the bottom is completely closed. Where did the soil move when digging the tunnel? Why won't the wall fall down? Everyone thinks that cicadas climb up and down with their claws, but this will collapse the soil and block the house. In fact, it acts like a miner or a railway engineer. Miners support tunnels with pillars, and railway engineers reinforce tunnels with brick walls. Cicadas are as clever as they are. It covers the tunnel wall with cement. This mucus is hidden in its body and used as a plaster. Crypts are often built in the roots of plants containing juice, from which juice can be obtained. It is very important for it to climb up and down the cave easily, because when it climbs outside in the sun, it must know what the climate is like outside. So it will take weeks or even a month to make a solid wall suitable for it to climb up and down. At the top of the tunnel, a layer of finger-thick soil was left to protect and resist the changes of the outside air until the last moment. As long as there is some news of good weather, it will climb up and measure the climate with a thin cover at the top. If it estimates that there is rain or storm outside-this is the most important thing when delicious grubs shed their skin-it will slip carefully under the tunnel. But if the climate looks warm, it will break the ceiling with its claws and climb to the ground. In his swollen body, there is a tree liquid, which can be used to avoid the dust in the cave. When it digs, it pours tree sap on the soil and turns it into mud. So the walls are softer. Then the grub presses it up with its fat body and squeezes the soil into the cracks in the dry soil. So when the top exit is found, there are often many wet spots on the body. When cicada larvae first appear on the ground, they often wander around, looking for a suitable place to shed their skin-a small dwarf tree, a bunch of thyme, a leaf of a weed, or a branch of a shrub-and climb up when they find it, holding it tightly with their front paws and motionless. So its skin began to crack from its back, revealing a light green cicada inside. At this time, the head comes out first, then the straw and front legs, and finally the hind legs and wings. At this point, removing the last tip of the body, the body has completely fallen off. Then, it will perform a strange gymnastics, the body soaring in the air, only slightly fixed on the old skin, turn the body upside down, make its wings covered with patterns, straighten out and try to open. So with an almost invisible movement, I tried my best to turn my body up, and my front paws hooked its empty skin. With this action, I pulled the tip of my body out of its sheath. The whole process takes about half an hour. In a short time, this newly released cicada is not very strong. Its soft body must be bathed in sunshine and air to have enough strength and beautiful color. It only hangs on the shell with its front paws off, swaying in the breeze, still fragile and still green. It was not until brown appeared that it was found to be the same as an ordinary cicada. Suppose it gets branches at nine o'clock in the morning, about half past twelve, leaves its skin and flies away. Sometimes the shell hangs on the branches for a month or two.