Chapter 1270

Chapter 1270 1254. Either the worm dies or I live (55)

"In dry years, the water surface of rivers and lakes shrinks, and the low-lying areas are exposed, which also provides locusts with more places suitable for laying eggs. On the other hand, plants grown in arid environments have lower water content, and locusts feed on them. Faster, and more capable of reproduction..."

Wang Bo didn't want to listen to these introductions anymore, so he turned off the TV and stood up upset.

Eva came over with a big belly and gave him a cup of coffee, and said softly, "Don't worry, my dear, the locusts haven't gone south yet, maybe the Ministry of Agriculture will find a way to deal with them soon."

Wang Bo said distressedly: "You know, New Zealand is too small, and it won't take long for the locusts to come south. Sunset Town is too attractive to them. We have large tracts of pasture here, and we have water sources here. They must I want to come here more."

Eva said: "But they can't lay eggs here. They don't want to stay in Sunset Town. This is their nature. They just want to destroy our place."

Indeed, during the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese compared the Japanese to locusts, and there are many similarities between the two sides.

For example, the Japanese frantically plundered China's wealth and resources, and frantically killed the Chinese, instead of wanting to occupy China and survive forever on this land.

Locusts also have a natural hatred for places with beautiful mountains and rivers. They must lay eggs on land where the vegetation coverage rate is less than 50%. If a place is beautiful and there is no bare land, locusts cannot reproduce.

However, they will destroy these beautiful places, eat up the green plants, and leave bare land, so there is no place for survival?

In the evening, Wang Bo did not rest, but led the farmers and cowboys under his command to prepare for the battle. Regardless of the regulations of the New Zealand government, he had already prepared several illegal methods of killing locusts.

New Zealand has many high-efficiency, low-toxicity, and low-residue pesticides, but there is no counterpart drug specifically for locusts, which creates difficulties for farmers and ranchers.

Fortunately, Motak has a way. He once stockpiled a suspending agent made of pyrethroid and mineral oil emulsion. After spraying, it can adhere to the dust in the air and then enter the locust body to kill the locust. they.

Wang Bo was overjoyed when he saw this insecticide. He patted Motak on the shoulder and said, "You have done a great job, buddy. I want to reward you, but how did you think of stockpiling this insecticide?"

Motak said with a wry smile: "Everything is God's will. At that time, I considered that our farm had just been opened and would attract a lot of pests, so I prepared it. Unexpectedly, there are not many insects in Sunset Town, so it has been useless .”

This kind of agent is a suspension contact agent. They are diluted with clean water and sprayed out. They can stay in the air, and then penetrate into the locust body after contacting the locust skin or appendages, or corrode the waxy layer of the locust body, or block the air valve, thereby killing locusts. dead pests.

But after Wang Bo was happy, he encountered two problems. One was that there was not enough medicine. Motak expected that pests would come to the farm, but he did not expect that there would be a plague of locusts.

The second question is how to spray. The farm area is too large. It is best to use agricultural aircraft to spray pesticides. It can be said that they rented aircraft before. Where can I rent them now? All farms and ranches are in urgent need of agricultural aircraft to help.

Fortunately, there is a Hercules super fire truck in Sunset Town. It is also possible to mix the pesticide with water and spray it out through the fire truck, but the effect is definitely not as good as that of an agricultural aircraft.

But this was the only effective method, Wang Bo decided to use it, and then the fire engines of the town's fire brigade came roaring.

Dad Bo also came up with an idea, he said: "Twenty or thirty years back, our hometown has also had locust plagues, especially during the ten-year disaster period, locusts have ravaged a lot."

Wang Bo asked, "How did you deal with it?"

Bo Dad racked his brains to recall: "I remember using trichlorfon powder, which was sprinkled on weeds and crops, and then sprinkled with dichlorvos on hay to dry, then ignited and suffocated to death."

Wang Bo smiled wryly, this method is useless, whether it is trichlorfon or dichlorvos, New Zealand is not allowed to use such highly toxic pesticides.

One day later, the overwhelming locust swarm divided into two groups, heading north to harm the North Island, and heading south to the important places like Sunset Town, Queenstown, and Dunedin.

Wang Bo put out the slogan "Either the worm dies or I live", and asked his subordinates to "fight to the death and never retreat", "We must withstand the attacks of these sons of bitches, and we must kill them!"

Peterson reminded him: "Boss, the slogan is wrong. Either the worm dies or I live. Isn't that the same meaning?"

Old Wang said: "Of course he knows what it means. I mean kill the bugs and let's live on!"

Peterson smiled awkwardly, "That's right, boss."

Seeing that the situation was not good, the New Zealand government and the Ministry of Agriculture finally launched a special session of Congress to urgently discuss whether to temporarily release the strict control of pesticides and some highly toxic drugs to kill these locusts.

After Wang Bo heard the news, he was so angry that he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. When is the meeting still going on? Democracy is not good at this point. We have to hold meetings to discuss everything, which is a waste of time.

Xiao Meng's eyes are very good, it flies in the air, and then saw the locusts coming from the air attack.

All birds are natural enemies of locusts. Without Wang Bo's order, he led his kea men to fight aggressively.

The keas have been full of confidence since they took care of the Tui birds. They feel that they are invincible under the leadership of Brother Xiaomeng. No one needs to be afraid. Seeing these little locusts, they flew up arrogantly.

There were too many locusts. This was the result of several divisions of troops, but when Wang Bo looked around, all he could see in his field of vision were dots of flying locusts.

It seemed that a sandstorm had occurred, and when the locust swarm arrived, the entire sky became dark.

The wings of countless locusts flapped the air and made a 'hum' sound. The combination of these sounds made people's eardrums ache!

Xiaomeng, commander of the parrot swarm, immediately engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the locust swarm. They had an absolute advantage in a head-on confrontation without using hands. It was too easy to clean up the locusts.

But the number of locusts is terrifying, they are crazy, they don't avoid the predation of the birds at all, they just rush up one after another, crashing into Xiaomeng and the parrots.

The army commander squatting on Wang Bo's shoulders retracted his wings when he saw this scene, and muttered, "Ah, it hurts to watch!"

It really hurts. The kea parrots finally tasted how they felt when they attacked a sheep in groups. With so many locusts hitting them continuously, some parrots were weak and even knocked over in the air!