Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 508 Fighting the Swarm of Bees 2
When he got home, Liu Junhao immediately called Er Mazi, Liu Qiyong and the others, saying that he had discovered a swarm of bees and asked them to get ready to come over immediately.

Today's tourists are really bold. When they heard that there was something exciting to watch, a large crowd gathered in Liu Junhao's courtyard.No matter how much I persuaded him, I couldn't persuade him to leave. I wanted to see how powerful the legendary killer bee was.

Obviously...they didn't have an intuitive impression of the horror of the swarming bees, and they talked about it happily.

"Liu Junhao, have you seen it right? It's a ground swarm bee or a small bumble bee. Don't make everyone jumpy." Seeing that everyone was present, Er Mazi asked.There are two types of bees that make underground nests in Liujiagou. One is the relatively common small bumblebee, which is slightly smaller than bees and less toxic. Liu Junhao and the others often encountered them when digging mouse holes when they were young. The nests are generally the size of eggs, and the largest No more than basketball.

There is also the ground swarm bee, which is bigger than a wasp, as thick as a little finger, and has a black and yellow ring on its stomach.There are tens of thousands of this thing as soon as it appears, and its lethality and attack power are extremely powerful. It is the most ferocious of all bees.Because the earth swarm is so terrifying, the people in Daqingshan are determined to get rid of it when they see it.

Ground hives generally build their hives underground. Like ants, they hold mud in their mouths until they dig the ground into a circular hollow.The large honeycomb has five or six layers, and the area of ​​each layer is as large as the lid of a pot.That's why there is a small mound of soil on it, which is all mud clods from the swarming bees.

Speaking of the example of Liujiagou being stung by a ground bee, it must be Lao Niutou.When he was grazing cattle on the mountain more than ten years ago, he accidentally led the cattle past a mound. At that time, he didn't notice that the hind legs of the cattle happened to step on the mound.

Because the ground was dug into a hole, the mound was trampled immediately, and a black wind suddenly blew up around, and countless swarms of bees attacked the scalper and the old bull's head. People in their 50s are stung and crying.If it wasn't for someone in the village who happened to be planting crops on the mountain ridge, he rushed to hear the call and took him to a fellow doctor's home for treatment in time, which saved his life.Later, the village doctor treated his injuries, and more than 20 poisonous thorns were pulled out from his body.

The old scalper was not so lucky, and had already lost its breath when people found it.

In addition to Liujiagou, many villagers in other villages were stung to death and injured.In the past, there were relatively few pesticides in the crop fields, but swarms of bees were common.Now this thing is much rarer, and this is the second time Liu Junhao has seen it so big.Of course, the first time was when the old bull was stung. He was more than ten years old at that time, and he remembered it clearly.

"Really, the yellow cowhide is so thick that the stinger of a ground bee can penetrate it?" a tourist asked in confusion.

"It's rare, but it's strange. You can pierce it with leather gloves. You say it's amazing!" Liu Qiyong followed behind.

"Xiaohao, this thing is not the same as your native bees, it is a specialty of Liujiagou, and they also produce honey, right?"

"My local bees are not comparable to this one. This thing is much more powerful. They mainly eat insects, and occasionally collect nectar, even if there is some honey." Liu Junhao replied.In his impression, it seems that he has never heard of anyone picking honey from the ground nest.

A group of people made noise, and soon came to the embankment. Following the direction Liu Junhao pointed, they all saw a small dirt bag.

"It's really a swarm of bees..." Seeing a black bee passing over his head, Er Mazi squatted down in fright.

"What are you going to use to fumigate the swarming bees? It won't be wild celery, right?" asked the tourist who had spoken earlier, seeing that everyone was holding fire-making utensils.He saw wild celery smoked flies in Liujiagou a few days ago, and the effect was surprisingly good.

"Wild celery is fine, but it's too toxic. After being smoked, the swarm bee pupae in it can't be eaten. You can also smoke them to death with wet firewood..." Liu Qiyong explained.

Ermazi divided the work on site and asked several people to cut wormwood and mugwort around.These two plants have a strong smell and ample smoke, and are excellent materials for eliminating ground swarmers.Now this season, there is green grass everywhere, so there is no need to worry about starting a fire.Now that the sun is about to set, the ground swarms have returned to their nests, just in time to catch them all.In fact, night is the best time to eliminate ground swarms, but no one wants to run so far at night.

With the help of tourists, a group of people quickly cut several large piles of wormwood.

Liu Junhao and Liu Qiyong put on raincoats, tied up their trouser legs, and approached the soil bag carefully with the wheat straw they had obtained in advance.Their movements were very careful, for fear of disturbing the ground swarm.

They surrounded the dry wheat straw, and the two of them covered it with mugwort leaves and wormwood.

It's hot even in shirts, let alone raincoats.In a few minutes, the two of them were covered in sweat.

There was a tight circle around the soil bag, and Liu Junhao and the two lit the straw at the same time, and suddenly a puff of smoke rose, and soon formed a circle.Everyone stood in the distance, and could no longer see the small dirt bag in the middle.

"Xiaohao, take the bamboo pole." Er Mazi called out from a distance, and handed over a long bamboo pole.

Don't look at the tall soil bag, but the inside has already been hollowed out.When the bamboo pole was poked upward, there was a bang in the thick smoke, and the earth bag collapsed directly.

Immediately after the buzzing sound, countless black and yellow ground swarmers crawled out of their caves, flapping their wings and rushing towards the thick smoke.

The scalps of the two of them went numb as they watched outside the thick smoke, and subconsciously moved further away.

They were worried too much. Wet mugwort leaves and wormwood were extremely powerful. As soon as those ground swarms took off, they fell into the fire like an out-of-control fighter jet, with no chance of escape.

Seeing that there was no danger, Liu Junhao hurriedly picked up several bundles of wheat straw and mugwort leaves still on the mound with a bamboo pole, and some of them bloomed in the middle.

The accomplices were busy, while Liu Qiyong began to look for the sub-cave where the ground swarmed.In addition to the main hole, the ground swarm bee has several auxiliary holes.If the ground swarms in the nest are allowed to escape, even if there are only two or three of them, it will be considered a failure, because no one can defend against their attacks! However, he searched around and did not find any ground swarms flying out. Obviously, there is smoke at the secondary hole. shrouded.

Liu Junhao kept picking firewood to add to the fire, and the frightened hive bees panicked and burrowed towards the entrance of the hole. Unfortunately, their wings ignited in the fire, and they couldn't fly at all. They could only hear the low and flustered "buzzing" sound from the hive. .In less than 10 minutes, all the swarmers that came out of the hole were burnt to death, and those who slipped through the net occasionally just crawled and struggled on the ground.

"It's almost there?" Liu Qiyong asked when he heard the voice in the cave gradually disappearing.

"En." Liu Junhao nodded, raised his foot and trampled to death the fish that slipped through the net on the ground.

"Take me to get the shovel, you continue to light the fire," Liu Qiyong said, and then walked towards the crowd in the distance.

"The ground swarm is wiped out, can we go there?" An anxious tourist asked loudly.

"Don't panic, wait until you dig it up and have a look." Although it has been confirmed that it is safe, Er Mazi still dare not let tourists take risks.Because there are likely to be adult bees that can still crawl nearby, it will be troublesome if they accidentally crawl into the trousers.

The two were afraid of digging the hive to pieces, so they didn't dig above the hole, but moved [-] to [-] centimeters to the sides.This piece of soil is very soft, and it took a few shovels to dig the honeycomb.

Just now Liu Junhao ignited the fire fiercely. When they opened the nest, they found that most of the swarms had been smoked to death. Although a very few were barely alive, they also lost their ability to attack.

The first layer of honeycomb is only slightly larger than the bowl, with a thickness of four to five centimeters, and it looks quite strong.

The two continued to dig down, layer by layer, and the layers were connected by beeswax to form a whole.The area of ​​the honeycomb gradually increases, and the largest layer in the middle is already the size of a pot lid.

The dead swarm bees on the ground were not wasted. This thing is a medicinal material. Using it to make wine is very effective in treating rheumatism. Some people in the town collect it for ten cents each.Although the price is low, it cannot withstand the high volume. There are probably thousands of ground bees in this hive, and it can sell for four to five hundred yuan at least.

Liu Junhao didn't waste them either, and swept them all into snakeskin bags.

After digging to the end, they found that the ground bee nest was bigger than expected, with seven floors in total.When the honeycomb is taken out, it looks very unique, it looks like a seven-story exquisite pagoda from a distance.Before they could breathe a sigh of relief, a tourist bid [-] yuan to buy it.

"You just want to buy it for five hundred yuan. Last time, the one in Xiaohaoyuan sold for thousands of yuan." Er Mazi refused to sell it.

After wrapping the hive in plastic sheeting, the two of them relaxed and ran to the distance.After confirming that there were no missing live bees on their bodies, the two hurriedly took off their helmets and raincoats.

Good guy, it's really not easy to burn this place, the two of them seem to be fished out of the water now, and they are all wet.After Liu Junhao and his wife threw the honeycomb to Er Mazi, they rushed home to change their clothes.

"Have you burned it?" Seeing her husband come back in a mess, Zhang Qian asked eagerly.

"It's okay, it's OK,"

In line with the principle that everyone who sees has a share, after arriving at Er Mazi's house, Liu Junhao asked the tourists present to choose some wine to drink.

After dividing the swarming bees, several people began to pick the young bees again.Although these young bees have not yet bitten the seal and come out of the nest, they also have terrible poisonous needles.It can also cause harm to people if it climbs out of the nest, so it must be removed as soon as possible.

They were picking, and they didn't notice that a big rooster from Er Mazi's house rushed up to them, and the two of them pecked off seven or eight young bees.

A few people hurriedly stretched out their hands to drive them away, but before they could make a move, the old rooster jumped up, clucking, and rushed to the roof with wings flapping like crazy.

Within 2 minutes, the rooster fell headfirst, and when Liu Junhao rushed over, the rooster could no longer move.I saw a huge lump swollen on the chicken leg, and a ground bee was sitting on it.

It is so poisonous that one rooster stung to death, and no tourists think that Ermazi is scaring them!
After getting rid of the young bees, the remaining thing is much simpler, which is to pick bee pupae.

This bee pupa is a bit bigger than the Golden Jade Emperor bee pupa, and the price is not as high as the Jin Yuhuang bee pupa, but it is not cheap.When Liu Junhao called Huo Jun, he had already offered to buy it at a price of [-] yuan per catty.As for the hive, he had naturally ordered it in advance.

This trip is very risky, but the rewards are not small.The bee pupae picked out from the hive alone weigh seven or eight catties.They didn't intend to sell all of them, but kept a catty of them to stir-fry the current food and drink at night.

(End of this chapter)