In my days as a farmer

A delicious breakfast brings endless motivation.

After breakfast, Xia Dongli went to the storage room to dig out the beekeeping tools he bought online. Today he is going to collect rent from his own bees!

The small bees raised by Xia Dongli are local native bees, and the amount of honey they collect is far less than that of Yi bees, but they are good at collecting scattered honey sources and do not need humans to help them find food. Disease is also good, hardly needing too much care from humans.

But even so, it doesn't mean they won't get angry when they are rummaged through their nests.

The only attack method of bees is to sting people with their tail stings, but their stingers are connected to the internal organs. Once the stingers are hooked by the skin, if they are forcibly pulled apart, their internal organs will also be torn out. It can be said that they risk their lives One hit.

So wearing anti-bee clothing protects not only human beings, but also the bees themselves. It is really boring to wear this clothes in this season, but there is no way. The UP master Xia Dongli followed said that bees will feel better when it is sunny Some, they won't be so angry when taking honey.

Generally, beekeepers who raise bumble bees collect honey once or twice a year, and this season is not considered a good time to collect honey, but Xia Dongli really can't wait, he can't wait to collect the rent and try it out The smell of homemade honey!

"It's really inconvenient to use gloves. These gloves are super thick." Xia Dongli squeezed his gloved hands and said as he went upstairs, "I saw that some UP masters didn't wear gloves after they became proficient."

"If you're not afraid of allergies." Chen Li, who was wearing a long-sleeved denim jacket and only a hood, held up the camera and said with a smile: "The beekeepers have confirmed that they are resistant to bee venom, so don't test yourself. His physique is relatively good, and if we have allergies, it will be quite a long way for us to rush to the hospital."

Xia Dongli waved his hand when he heard the words, and he turned out the key to the roof with some difficulty, "Yes, we only have a box of bees, and I can still hold on for this little time."

As he spoke, he turned the key and opened the rooftop door that hadn't been opened for a long time.

In the past, the roof door of their house was not locked, but since raising bees on it, Xia Dongli locked it here for fear that the little gluttons at home would steal it.

In order to let the little bees gather honey with peace of mind, Xia Dongli has not come up for nearly two months since the water flow system on the roof was activated. Usually, he uses the monitoring probe to see if the residents are working well. Now open the door Really a little nervous.

The roof in the north is a large plane, and their house faces south, facing the direct sunlight without shelter, and the temperature is quite high.

In order to prevent the bees from being damaged by the heat, Xia Dongli and Xun Ao built a small sunshade for them on the edge of the water tank, and with the water flowing through the side, the temperature here can be about two or three degrees lower than that in the direct exposure area .If it is still too hot, the bees themselves will flap their wings to cool down the nest. Scolia are very adaptable, and they can handle most of the cases by themselves.

"Remember to close the door, and they will come back after the rice." Xia Dongli, who was in the lead, quickly reminded his curious furries, and Chen Li, who was walking at the end, pushed the roof door down, and waited. When he approached the two of them with the camera up, he found that both Xia Dongli and Xun Ao were squatting two or three steps away from the hive.

The two wearing bee-proof hats are like two huge mushrooms, not to mention how weird they look. "What's wrong?"

"Hush, Xiao Chen, come and see." Xia Dongli excitedly beckoned him to come closer, and Chen Li followed his example and squatted down to hold up the camera. As soon as he got closer, he heard insects besides the sound of running water The sound of flapping wings when flying.

But the strange thing is that this sound comes in bursts, like cicadas, not like the movement made under normal circumstances.

Xia Dongli pointed to the door of the beehive, signaling him to pay attention to this place: "Look, there is a wasp, and the bee is chasing it away."

Sure enough, right where he was pointing, a yellow insect twice the size of a bee was hovering over the door of the bee's nest, and right where it was staring, all the bees raised by Xia Dongli's family crawled out of the nest , waiting in line at the door of the hive, they are threatening to drive away the hornet by waving their wings.

Although it is also called a bee, the wasp is an out-and-out carnivorous insect. Its target is not honey, but these small bees that are waving their wings. Oh no, this season is also the breeding season of the wasp. Its target may also be inside the hive of larvae.

The wasp probably wanted to snatch the larva away and take it home to feed its own larvae, so it was watching the nest door instead of hiding and waiting for an opportunity to prey on the returning honey bees.

A single bee is no match for a wasp at all. The mouthparts of a wasp are chewing. Like a praying mantis, a bee cannot escape once caught. And unlike a bee, a wasp's tail sting can launch multiple attacks. Their bee The poison should also be stronger.

But bees also have their fighting methods. Once the wasp lands, the bees will swarm up and heat up the wasp to death by raising their own body temperature.

However, this method is also extremely tragic. Although the heat resistance of bees is slightly higher than that of wasps, in order to ensure that the wasps can be killed by heat, the bees will raise the temperature at all costs. Usually, the most heroic bees are the first to jump over. They will all die together.

So don't look at Xia Dongli's appearance of watching the excitement, he has already taken out a fly swatter in his hand and is ready to kill the bees!

Hornets are very domineering and unreasonable, very aggressive, but they are also an important part of the ecological chain in nature.

Because they prey on insects, they can also help forests control pests, and they are actually considered beneficial insects.

Originally, everyone does not violate the river water, but if one wasp touches the hive, it means that a group of wasps will touch the hive, so I'm sorry!For the safety of their residents, Xia Dongli is going to destroy the insects with his hands.

However, the accident happened so quickly, before Xia Dongli could wave the fly swatter, the three of them saw a blur in front of their eyes, and an unknown creature passed in front of him, it flew so fast that Xia Dongli only had time to see it With a pair of thin wings and a little yellow, it flew to the hive.

It must be some kind of insect with such wings, but it is so big that a large group flies past and at first glance it is thought to be a bird.

Although it was huge, the insect's flying movements were extremely dexterous, like a fallen leaf floating by the wind, it took the wasp away with just a single spin.

Um! ? ! !etc?What just happened?

Everything happened so fast, Xia Dongli's fly swatter was still held up, and the wasp disappeared.He froze for a moment before realizing that he had been cut off.

"Oh oh oh oh oh! I took it!! That looks like a dragonfly" Chen Li on the side was so excited that he let out a series of screams. He carefully preserved this precious video, and his movements were as cautious as those in that moment. In an instant, he forgot which one was the save button.

"Dragonfly? So big?" Xia Dongli stretched out his hand and showed it to Xun Yao when he heard the words. The insect was almost as big as his palm, and its shape was almost the same as that of ordinary birds. Xia Dongli had never seen such a big dragonfly. never seen it.

And this is still in the north. As we all know, the closer to the south, the bigger the insects are.

For example, a cockroach in the north is as small as a fingernail, but in the south it can grow as long as a finger, and it also gets flying skills. Creatures like dragonflies are also bigger in the south than in the north.

Xia Dongli used to live in a city where there were not many dragonflies, on the contrary, there were more adaptable damselflies, but the creature that appeared on the screen proved its identity with its super recognizable eyes ——The big eyes and iconic wing shape of this Kaziran PLUS, there is no other possibility except dragonfly.

In front of the screen shared by the three of them, Chen Li's paused video was the scene of the successful predation of the dragonfly.

The wasp that was domineering in front of the beehive just now was firmly bitten by the neck of the dragonfly, while the dragonfly, which is considered beautiful and fragile in the eyes of ordinary people, firmly fixed the wasp with its huge mouthparts. Its body slightly The bending seems to be to relieve the force of hitting the prey during high-speed flight. Compared with the bulging body of the wasp, the dragonfly looks really slender.

Not to mention that under the high-definition lens, the Hornets still have tail stings ready to go. Just looking at the appearance, the difference is really too big.But despite this, it is the winner in this battle, and now, it has been far away from everyone's sight, and it is enjoying breakfast at its favorite location.

"It's a giant round-bottomed dragonfly." Chen Li opened the mobile app and scanned the camera screen. He almost burst out laughing when he saw the insect map that popped up: "The largest dragonfly in China usually lives in central and southern China, but this time it actually appeared in North, Xiaoxia, this is a rare thing among rare things!!"

Xia Dongli shuddered when he heard the words, and asked weakly, "Is it to protect animals?"

"That's not true, but all dragonflies are beneficial insects." Chen Li happily took a photo and sent it to his chat group, but kept saying, "It is recommended not to harm the beneficial insects that are friendly to agriculture and animal husbandry."

"Then..." The corners of Xia Dongli's mouth twitched, and the joy of finding the big dragonfly had almost dissipated: "Does this dragonfly eat bees?"

Chen Li stopped typing quickly, and he slowly raised his head, with a particularly sad expression: "Eat."

Fat and sweet bees, any animal that eats bugs will not refuse.

Xia Dongli felt pitiful and helpless, so wouldn't my hive of bees become the buffet for that big dragonfly?The little bee already has a couple of blackbirds who are eyeing tigers as natural enemies, and dragonflies and so on, will they really not move?

Xia Dongli thought for a while, and tried to make the last struggle, "If you catch the dragonfly and release it elsewhere, can it be found?"

"No one has tried this, the theory should not work." Chen Li touched his chin when he heard the words, "But I suggest you don't try it, the flying ability of dragonflies is very powerful, if you find bees picking flowers outside, you will sooner or later follow back."

"Actually, I think you should relax. Although bees are easy to catch, for big flies, hornets should be more delicious."

...why?

"The energy ratio of hunting is different. One hunting wasp has more meat than bees, and it is impossible for it to stare at the hive, otherwise the bee can kill the wasp and it. At most, it is to catch two single ones Bees, it will not affect the number of bee colonies too much... In fact, animals are very sustainable, and of course you can understand that it is food in captivity."

Chen Li poked his chin with his mobile phone, trying to comfort the sad Xia Dongli: "Actually, Xiao Xia, you can think of it this way. If you raise this dragonfly, you don't have to worry about wasps digging out their nests in the future. The types and quantities of insects that dragonflies eat There are quite a lot of them, and they eat flies and mosquitoes, so you should pay some labor fees."

Xia Dongli: ...

He smacked his mouth and sighed "I'd be happy if it came before I didn't have bees, but now... ugh."

Now it feels a bit like being forced to hire, and the mood is so complicated.

Chen Li glanced at him, and suddenly raised the phone screen in front of him: "Actually, it has already come, and its larva looks like this."

Xia Dongli suddenly had a bad premonition, and sure enough, the insects that appeared on the screen and the water worm that ate his tadpoles in his small pond.

"..."

"This kind of water cockroach needs to live in a flowing water environment," Chen Li sighed a little: "Xiao Xia, if you didn't want to keep bees, you wouldn't build this water circulation system."

"........."

"So this is fate." He patted Xia Dongli on the shoulder: "By the way, you should stop collecting honey. Bees will lay more eggs when there is honey. Let them have more cubs."

"…………"

I'm so angry!