Agriculture Idol

Chapter 155 Looking for Fireflies

The live broadcast on helping farmers on peaches and potatoes ended, and Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong stayed there for a few more nights.

When chatting with the potato farmers, they also talked about the topic of raising fireflies on the top floors of high-rise buildings in the city.The farmer told them that there is a place nearby, which is the season for watching fireflies.

Therefore, Li Chengxin urgently summoned the live broadcast planning team in Lanhai City, transferred several staff members to watch fireflies with them, and invited Professor Pan, who specializes in wildlife, to come over.

Qi Lanting was also idle, so Li Chengxin tricked him over by inviting him to eat delicious peaches and potatoes and cool off the heat.

Although Yuan Zhao didn't tell Qi Lanting the truth, Qi Lanting could also guess that Zicheng, an annoying bad friend, would do nothing good every time he was asked to go to the countryside, but thinking about what Li Chengxin said when he caught bugs with him last year, those A bunch of great truths about people and nature and the age of his fans.

In the end, Qi Lanting, an upright traffic star who is afraid of bugs, could only lament: "I only went to catch bugs for the fans!"

When everyone arrived, according to the fruit grower's instructions, a few people went to the place to watch fireflies. They went early, and the sun had not yet set when they arrived.The summer afternoon sun was half hanging in the sky, and in front of them was a mountain path, with fields and forests on both sides, with beautiful scenery.

【Wow!What a place! 】

[I feel the world of "My Neighbor Totoro"!so beautiful! 】

Netizens faithfully watched the live broadcast of several people, and due to Qi Lanting's departure, there were many more young girls in the barrage army.

While it was still early in the day, everyone walked towards the mountains to see if there was anything nearby to shoot.

After only two steps, Li Chengxin grabbed Qi Lanting's sleeve to prevent him from escaping, and pointed to a large clump of hydrangeas on the side of the road with his other hand and said, "Look! Mantis!"

I saw a slender praying mantis less than ten centimeters crawling leisurely on the pink hydrangea.Soon, a smaller praying mantis of the same species was found nearby, probably the offspring of this praying mantis.

Qi Lanting struggled to run, and watched as Li Chengxin grabbed a little praying mantis...in the end, he still didn't put it on his arm.

"I'm afraid you'll get too excited and throw the mantis to death..." This is Li Chengxin's reason for not persecuting Qi Lanting.

Next, Li Chengxin found a yellow and black beetle near the mantis, which feeds on pollen and nectar.

"Lanting..." Qi Lanting struggled in this environment full of insects.

After a struggle, the beetle was placed on Qi Lanting's arm, and it waited for 5 minutes before reluctantly flying to the flowers where it was supposed to be.

By the side of the ditch on the other side of the road, an emerald green frog was also found. Judging from the size of this frog, which is smaller than the blade of grass on the bank, it probably just hatched this summer. If you look closely, you can indeed see the outline of the tail.Seeing a group of people surrounding him, he quickly bounced and hid in the grass.

Professor Pan suddenly said: "If you can see fireflies here at night, maybe you can find fireflies by the side of the canal now."

As he spoke, he began to rummage in the grass by the ditch, but found nothing.

"It seems that the fireflies here may prefer the environment of water puddles compared to streams."

Then, Professor Pan dug out the little book he had been carrying with him all the year round, and began to popularize science: "Due to different species of fireflies, their habitats are also very different. There are fireflies that like to live in dense forests, and those that live on mountains. Some live by the water."

In Professor Pan's small notebook, there are many sketches of different fireflies, and each species has different characteristics.

【Big touch!Kneel down! 】

[For work related to the field, you must first be able to draw, right? 】

[Don't dampen my confidence in studying biology...]

Not far from the canal, there was an empty paddy field. Professor Pan pointed to it and said, "Otherwise, go and have a look there."

Naturally, everyone wanted to meet Professor Pan's request.

There are many snails living in the vacant paddy fields, and there are traces of snails crawling on the muddy floor at the bottom of the water. Qi Lanting had just been educated about fireflies eating snails when he was doing a live broadcast on the top floor.

"This is the snail!" Li Chengxin went over to pick one up and took a look. The snail was much bigger than the snail Qi Lanting found in the heart pool, almost as long as a thumb.

"Fried snails! Steamed snails! Stir-fried snails!..." Knowing the names of the ingredients, Qi Lanting began to proficiently report the names of the dishes, and wanted to pick up snails as he spoke.

"There may be firefly larvae in the water!" Li Chengxin's words instantly dispelled Qi Lanting's appetite.

Professor Pan took the snail picked up by Li Chengxin, and pointed the snail in his hand to the camera: "The larvae of fireflies like to stick their heads into the gap under the cover of the snail, inject digestive juice, melt the snail meat and eat it."

"Wait! I thought fireflies should be very cute insects! I didn't expect to be so cruel!" Qi Lanting seemed to be about to cast a shadow on the fireflies, "I didn't ask Marbo before how the firefly larvae eat the heart pool of snails."

Firefly is a very typical beetle. During the growth process, the appearance of the larvae is very scary (you can’t put a picture at the starting point, otherwise my novel is full of popular science pictures. If you are interested, go and see what a firefly larva looks like), and its personality is extremely cruel .It will use its fangs called "jaws" to aim at the moment when the snail opens its lid and bite the snail, inject venom, and inject digestive juice when the snail is paralyzed by the venom. After the snail meat is completely melted, the firefly larvae will die Will suck it up.

In addition, firefly larvae are big eaters and can eat dozens of snails a day.But after the larvae emerge as adults, their mouths degenerate, but they can only eat nectar and drink dew.

This feature also makes everyone feel very magical.

Professor Pan continued to drop the book bag: "In fact, relatively speaking, the depression left by this paddy field is the so-called wetland. The water depth of the heart pool is 30 centimeters, so it can be regarded as a pool, and this depression with a depth of only 5 centimeters can attract There are more aquatic insects in the depression. Because the water is shallow, the water temperature in the depression is relatively much higher."

Qi Lanting asked curiously: "Then should we prepare to add a shallower pool next to the heart pool?"

Li Chengxin nodded: "This plan is fine, but I have to wait for Brother Xiaoyong and I to study it carefully."

Brother Xiaoyong smiled and said, "What you want to say is to let me study it by myself, right?"

"Hehe." (￣▽￣)" Li Chengxin smiled dryly, this has indeed always been the scope of work of Brother Xiaoyong.

There are many dense grasses next to the depression, including short rice-like grasses, common herbs, small shrubs and other grass blades. Even in the afternoon after a day in the sun, it is still a little damp.

Professor Pan felt that the grass seemed to be good, so he started looking for fireflies in the grass again.

While looking for it, he introduced: "After the fireflies have spent autumn and winter, they will climb up to the land in spring and become pupae in the soil. In summer, they will emerge as adults and climb out of the soil to hide among the big leafy plants, waiting for night to fall."

However, still nothing.

Now Professor Pan was embarrassed: "Are you sure the fruit grower said there are fireflies here?"

(End of this chapter)