1200 1185. On Several Methods Of Deworming (1/5)

Chapter 1200 1185. On Several Methods of Deworming (15)

In the dark, a group of people, dogs, cats and parrots went to the vegetable garden.

It's not a good night tonight, the sky is overcast and dark, there's no moon in sight.

Xiao Wang flicked his tail a little uneasy, ran two quick steps to Lao Wang, looked up at him with a very unique expression.

"Ma De, are you afraid of the night? Are you a descendant of a lion and a tiger?" Wang Bo was so angry, why did Xiao Wang become more daring and smaller.

Father Bo looked at the sky and said: "This kind of night is indeed quite scary. There may be a storm. Hurry up and catch the slugs. If it rains, they will be arrogant."

Bo's mother said: "The most fearful thing is the strong wind. They lay their eggs on the leaves. Once they are blown away, there will be slugs all over the place."

Slugs look soft and weak, but in fact they are a kind of insect with super survival ability.

Only dry weather and hot sunshine are their natural enemies, and other things in nature cannot threaten them.

In addition, they are very resistant to hunger and thirst, and can survive for a long time without food or under poor conditions.

Regardless of the small size of slugs, a slug can harm vegetables dozens of times its own weight in one night, which can be described as "eating while pulling" and "walking and eating all the way".

Dad Bo said to him: "At that time, the cucumber field in our family had to be two acres, but there were hundreds of slugs in the end, and it was a disaster within a few days."

"The most miserable thing is the leek field of Lao Liu's family. It was eaten by slugs and lost a harvest for a year."

Wang Bo was surprised: "They are so powerful?"

Bo's mother said: "Your father likes to exaggerate now. He didn't make it clear that leeks are sold for leaves. If the leaves are incomplete and have worm eyes, no one buys them. Your sixth uncle's leeks have been eaten. stay home."

Wang Bo hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, why don't we use pesticides, our vegetable fields are too big."

In specialized agricultural planting vegetable fields, pesticides can only be used to eradicate pests on a large scale.

Dad disagreed: "Our vegetable garden is for our family. What we want is pollution-free and natural. What kind of vegetables are we here?"

"Organic vegetables."

"Oh, yes, we can't use pesticides for organic vegetables. If pesticides are used, they will become inorganic vegetables."

Lao Wang was shocked by Dad's ability to create nouns: Dad, you are really my dad!

It is not easy to use pesticides to kill insects in New Zealand. Pesticide shops that are common on the streets of rural China are prohibited in New Zealand. It is more difficult to buy pesticides than antibiotics.

Wang Bo lamented, "Dad, you really plan to use all of the hundreds of hectares of land to catch bugs by hand? Even if you want to catch bugs, you have to call all the helpers, right?"

Even with the heart of the vegetable garden, people still need help.

Bo's father and Bo's mother are responsible for taking care of the vegetable garden. In addition, Wang Bo hired more than 20 helpers for them to produce vegetables. Otherwise, relying on the two elders alone would break their old bones.

Bo's mother said: "Don't show such a bear, what did my mother tell you when you were a child? The more you do farm work, the less you do. Besides, there are not many bugs. Not all vegetable fields have slugs, just cabbage fields. have."

Wang Bo recalled it for a while, and wanted to estimate the area of ​​the cabbage field, but he hadn't been to the vegetable garden for a long time, at most he was controlling it from the sand table, and he didn't have the impression of the cabbage field in his mind.

This vegetable field is located in the southeast corner of the vegetable garden. Obviously, the slugs appeared from here. Fortunately, Bo Dad and Bo Mom worked diligently and checked every day, and only then did they find the slugs.

The area of ​​the cabbage field is small in the vegetable field, but it is about ten acres. Wang Bo shook his head, this is going to be a protracted battle.

Catching worms is done by hand. Father Bo took some small plastic buckets and sprinkled them with edible salt, so that if you catch the slugs and throw them in, they will lose water and die soon.

Slugs are similar to snails without shells, with mucus on the outside and a lot of fluid in their bodies. They are afraid of high temperature and light, because they are afraid of losing water.

There are many ways to dehydrate them. In addition to high temperature and light, dehydration with desiccant is also a way. There is no desiccant in the castle, and Bo Dad prepared salt, which is also effective.

Everyone wears a hat with a headlamp attached to their head, wears disposable rubber gloves and starts catching bugs.

After the little Lolita finished dressing up, she giggled excitedly: "Look, brother-in-law, brother-in-law, I have become a miner."

Wang Bo praised: "Where did this beautiful little miner come from? Come, go to the mine with my brother-in-law..."

Father Bo glared at him angrily, and said, "How old are you, how can you speak so casually?"

Wang Bo was puzzled, and then thought back to his own words, it seemed that there was indeed some ambiguity, but the little Lolita didn't pay attention, and was still arranging the headlights wanting to be beautiful.

Several people dispersed, and the young president quickly smiled and said: "Look, I caught two, and they stayed together."

The two slugs were stacked on top of each other, and Old Wang shook his head. The brat, Mad, didn't know how outrageous things he had done. The slugs must hate him to death. They are mating.

You can see the slug when you lift the leaves of the cabbage, which is easy to spot, because the mucus on the surface of the slug reflects light, and the light shines on it.

Wang Bo quickly caught more than a dozen of them and threw them into a small bucket. Without the protection of the shell, the slugs were dehydrated quickly after being contaminated with salt, and if they were dehydrated too much, they would die.

But it was too inefficient to do so. After sweeping for a while, he stood up, took out his mobile phone and started to ask for help online.

Googling how to deal with slugs, the first answer that comes up is drug resistance.

There is a drug called SlugBait in New Zealand, which is cheap and can be bought in many supermarkets.

Wang Bo was immediately refreshed. After reading the introduction, this thing is very effective against slugs.

But because of its low toxicity, this thing can only numb the snails and make them immobilized for a few hours, but it cannot kill them. There is no way. In New Zealand, low-toxicity and high-efficiency pesticides do not exist.

There are also many methods circulating on the Internet. Wang Bo looked at it and couldn't help laughing.

Among the methods on the Internet, some say to bury a cup in the ground next to the plant and pour beer or sugar water into it to attract slugs to fall into it and drown.

Another way to say is to pour coffee grounds next to the plants, and the slugs will die of caffeine poisoning when they touch it.

There is even a way to artificially create a dark and humid environment, wait until dawn to attract slugs to crawl in, and then catch them all...

Seeing this, Old Wang couldn't help laughing out loud. The New Zealanders are so cute and funny. Just catching a bug is like catching a spy. What kind of ideas are they coming up with!

He read it to everyone, and everyone laughed, and after the laughter, the sky began to rain.

Seeing this, Bo's father and Bo's mother couldn't laugh anymore.