Natural Disaster: My Portable Farm in the End of the World

Xiang Chi twirled the seedling medium in his hand thoughtfully.

Suddenly, she seemed to have discovered something. She poured the matrix in her hand into a clean tray, spread it flat on the bottom of the tray, and pulled out a small pile of small gray-black particles.

Xu Ma: "What is this? Ceramics?"

Several people put their heads above the pile of small particles and identified them.

Since being recruited into the planting team by Director Liao, the four old people have systematically learned all kinds of knowledge about greenhouse planting after work.

As for the formula of the seedling substrate, you can tell it with a little recognition, even if you don't know it by heart.

But this small pile of granular things stumped them.

Xiang Chi looked at it for a long time, but couldn't see anything. He was wondering, and without paying attention, he crushed a particle with his fingers.

Looking at the white-green mucus on his fingers and the broken particles inside, Xiang Chi's face changed slightly.

Xiang Chi: "This...why does this thing look so much like an insect egg?" o(?Д?)っ

Xiang Chi suddenly reacted, roared, jumped up, and rushed into the bathroom. My hands were all red before I came out.

Outside, Xiang Ma and others were inspecting the rest of the seedling substrates with serious faces.

They selected several bags of unopened substrates and opened them, but found no such eggs.

The lettuce seedlings that were put into use the day before yesterday had more or less these insect eggs.

The entire nursery room and hundreds of nursery trays were all contaminated by insect eggs.

Dad Xu felt in disbelief and murmured:

"Impossible, where did these insect eggs come from?"

Just when everyone was puzzled, Xu Ge came in from outside.

It turned out that Xu Ge was waiting at the gathering place every time. Seeing that a few people never showed up, he came over.

Xu Ge: "What's going on?"

Looking at the seedling substrates and seedling trays scattered in the greenhouse, Xu Ge was a little confused.

He handed Chi a tray with a small pile of insect eggs on it.

"Husband, look at these, are they insect eggs?"

Xu Ge took the tray, picked one up with tweezers and observed it carefully, confirming that the gray-black particles were insect eggs. But it's not their common type.

Moreover, Xu Ge was also surprised to find insect eggs in the matrix.

Before raising seedlings, the substrate will be disinfected to prevent the occurrence of pests and diseases.

Even if there are eggs, they will be killed. And these eggs, after inspection, are all alive!

There is only one possibility, that is, it was contaminated in the greenhouse. There were adult insects in the greenhouse that they didn't find!

Several people didn't bother to go home, and carefully checked the shed, trying to find traces of insects.

Finally, Xu Ge found traces of insects crawling at the sewer entrance.

Xu Ge suddenly felt bad. Sewers have always been the focus of disinfection in daily management of greenhouses. Finding traces of bugs here instead of corpses proved that these bugs are already highly resistant to antibiotics!

Several people split up and checked several nearby greenhouses, and found that two-thirds of the greenhouses had traces of this insect!

The seedling trays in these greenhouses have all been wiped out, and insect eggs have been found in all of them.

This was a big deal. Xu Ge quickly called Director Liao and told him the bad news.

When Director Liao heard this, he was shocked and immediately dropped what he was doing. Ignoring the scorching sunshine outside, I drove to the planting base despite the high temperature of almost 60 degrees.

While waiting for Director Liao, Xu Ge informed the managers of other greenhouses and the villagers about the black insect eggs.

For a time, the planting base, which had gradually become quiet due to the sunrise, became agitated with the news.

With the sound of brakes one after another, people in twos and threes began to come in and out of each greenhouse door.

After detailed inspection by everyone, it was found that the vegetable seedlings had different degrees of damage depending on the length of time they were raised.

Several experienced professional technicians have analyzed that this kind of bug will hatch according to the different growth stages of vegetable seedlings.

Based on existing samples, they found that adults would lay eggs in seedling trays that had just been sown for one to three days, and as the seeds grew, the eggs gradually hatched.

It only takes about ten days for the eggs to hatch and turn into larvae, which is when the vegetable seedlings are booming.

The larvae feed on the roots of vegetable seedlings and transform into adults in about three days.

At this time, the adults will drill out of the substrate and look for new nursery pots to lay eggs.

After laying their eggs, they crawl to a dark, moist place and slowly die.

According to expert estimates, if it is not stopped, vegetable seedlings contaminated by this insect will cause losses of at least half of the yield!

Fortunately, it was discovered early. If it had been a few days later, it would have caused irreparable losses to the yield of this batch of vegetables.

Director Liao ran into the shed sweating profusely, frowned as he looked at the report in his hand.

Especially after seeing the words "This insect has certain resistance to antibiotics", his face turned livid.

Director Liao: "How many greenhouses have been affected?"

Xiao Wang from the research institute wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Officially, 147 sheds are contaminated. The specific data of the villagers has not been released yet. According to estimates... it is more than half..."

The more I listened, the uglier Director Liao's face became.

Based on the existing data, this bug has a certain degree of resistance to pesticides, and ordinary pesticides have no effect on them. It will take time to develop effective killing methods.

Director Liao organized his thoughts and began to issue orders in an orderly manner.

First, the contaminated greenhouses must be isolated, and finer insect-proof nets should be placed on vents and sewers to prevent the scope of contamination from expanding.

It is most important to form an expert team to conduct experiments on this mutated pest and develop effective killing methods.

The remaining members of the planting team need to sort out the contaminated nursery pots for disposal. If it can be remedied, screen out the eggs and continue cultivating them. If it cannot be remedied, it will be destroyed centrally.

After a whole morning of hard work, several old people were already a little tired. But now the outdoor temperature at noon is already over 60 degrees. Fortunately, there is a temporary rest room next to the monitoring room of Xiang Chi's greenhouse.

After eating some simple meals and settling in a few old people, Xiang Chi and Xu Ge took their two technicians and began to deal with their own nursery pots that were parasitized by insect eggs.

Yes, the Xiang Chi family was not spared and was also contaminated by insects.

Fortunately, these contaminations are still in the early stages. Except for a few plates of vegetable seedlings whose root systems were damaged, the rest are in the state of insect eggs.

When they first stocked up, Xu Ge and Xiang Chi stocked up on various seedling substrates and nutrient solutions for the future development of the vegetable greenhouse.

There are now hundreds of tons of seedling substrate in the space.

The contaminated substrates were put together in one place, and Xiang Chi transported a batch of new seedling substrates from the space.