There is such an animal, which is more hateful to the northerners than the mosquitoes of summer, and this animal has always lived undergroundNow their eyesight is no longer adapted to the life of the sun on the ground, and they have been making holes.
And this animal, the favorite thing to do, is to steal the roots and stems of plants from the ground, which leads to the fact that rural people really hate them, but no one thought that now the bones of this animal have been sold for 300 yuan a catty, this transformation is shocking.
The name of this animal is called the mole, and he is actually an animal that has been living underground, and their daily life is to dig holes in the ground and then eat the roots and stems of other plants, which really makes the farmer very angry.
You must know that the root of a plant is the source of life of a plant, which will completely affect the growth of the plant, for example, wild grasses, if they are only cut off from the ground, they can still grow in the next yearBut if the roots of the grass are destroyed, there is no chance of regeneration.
This kind of example is not only true for wild grasses, but also for the fruits and vegetables grown by the farmer's uncle, or other things, in fact, the same is the same thing, and these are complete food ** places for moles, and they will not easily move away.
But this result is that the crops will die in a large area, and some farmers and uncles want to cry without tears whenever they see this situation, and this mole is not eating the roots of plants, but the hearts, livers, spleens and lungs of farmersThe fruits of a year's hard work have been so ruined.
In fact, not only the roots of plants, sometimes squirrels will also come to the ground to obtain food, including the stems of plants, or the leaves of plants, in fact, all of them are mole food, so the impact of moles on crops is really very large.
Moreover, as a hibernating animal, the mole needs to store food for their own winter, and at this time, the mole does not just eat a littleInstead, they will bite off the whole plant and drag it back to its burrow.
However, every time the mole squirrel stores grain, it is also just in the autumn, when the farmer is preparing for the autumn harvest, if at this stage, because of the mole squirrel causes human beings to lose their rations, it is very undeserved, so in the countryside, they generally hate the mole squirrel very much.
Moreover, it's not just the fact that they can eat plants that is a headache, because the mole has always been an animal that can burrow, so it is actually a hidden danger to let them burrow in the soil at willThe reason why I say this has a lot to do with the land in the countryside.
In the early years, the northern countryside has always used earth dams, and there is a connection between the farmland and the river embankment, if the mole squirrel digs the hole, then the entire earthen dam will be damaged, and it is easy to collapse the embankment in the anthill.
It is possible that the entire dam will be destroyed, and this kind of problem is also very serious, if it is good to say that this is the case in one place, but there may be other places where the same problem will occurOver time, such earthen dams lose their ability to resist floods.
In fact, in the previous process of eliminating the four pests, among the representatives of rodents, there was the existence of squirrels, and the reason why this happened was entirely because the harm of squirrels was getting bigger and bigger, and some people would wonder why the existence of all things was reasonable, why did they feel that squirrels had no advantage.
In fact, if according to the earliest ecological environment, the existence of mole squirrels is not very harmful, which is mainly due to two reasons, one is because the reproduction rate of mole squirrels is relatively slowThe other is because moles still have many natural predators.
If you want to talk about the reproductive ability of the mole rat, which is usually once a year, and the number of births per year is about five or six at most, and this reproductive ability, among other rats, is still normal, or even relatively small.
And in nature, the number of natural enemies of the mole is really a lot, to the sky, like owls, to the ground, such as foxes, or snakes, or even weasels and the like, in fact, they all feed on the mole, so, in general, the number of moles is not much.
However, with the expansion of human self-owned land, it has slowly damaged the natural environment, resulting in drastic changes in both the ecological and other environments, which has led to an increase in the number of mole ratsAnd the number of his natural enemies is slowly decreasing.
In the absence of natural predators, the living environment of the squirrel has suddenly improved, so people always have to pay the price for what they do, after all, the ecological environment is a closed loop, it must be because some places begin to deteriorate, it is easy to become a butterfly effect.
Therefore, after reaching this point, human beings can only start to remove this harm by themselves, and at the beginning of the campaign to eliminate the four evils that attracted the attention of everyone, at that time, the mole rat was placed among the rats that should be eliminated the most, and many methods were used to kill the rats.
The first methods were old ways, such as setting traps in the fields to kill rats, or by spreading medicine near their holesThe stupider way is to kill the squirrel with a hoe once you see it appear.
But this kind of method, there is no good efficiency, there is no way, people can only think of other ways out, the first choice of the method is to directly fill the hole with water, the mole squirrel will definitely not swim, if the mole squirrel's hole is filled with water,It will drown a lot of moose.
But this is not a completely reliable method, because the mole squirrel's crypt is too big, and the passage is dense, although the water will drown some people who have no time to run, but if the mole has found another way out and run out,The end result won't be very good.
Eventually, people found a better way, that is, to poison directly, especially in autumn and winter, when the mole is ready to give and store food for the winter, they put some drugs to kill rats, mix some food, and put them near the mole squirrel's burrow.
This method is relatively easy to use, and in a short period of time, it does reduce the severity of the mole disaster, but this is not a completely usable methodBecause rat poison is not sure whether it will be harmful to other animals and plants, it is not good if it harms the human body.
Moreover, with the development of time, people have slowly discovered that although the main place where the mole squirrel lives is still in the north, it is not so many in every northern village, in fact, in Shanxi, and Hebei and other regions, the number of mole squirrels is not so much.
However, in some more northwestern regions, such as Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo, including Xinjiang in the northwest region, the number of moles is still very large, and the farmers here are still dying day after dayIf you get rid of the problem of moles.
But who would have thought that an animal like a squirrel would also encounter a day when a salted fish turned over, from a street rat that made everyone shout and beat, to a treasure worth hundreds of dollars, which is really in response to the old saying, thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi.
Not to mention that someone is killing mole squirrels, some people even breed mole squirrels in order to obtain greater profits, this is because the benefits that mole squirrels can obtain now are too highAccording to the current price, it is basically 300 yuan a catty.
The reason why the status of the mole squirrel has been so greatly improved all of a sudden is actually because people unexpectedly found that the bones of the mole squirrel can be used in medicine, and after being medicated, the effect played is almost the same as that of tiger bones.
You know, the number of wild tigers is getting smaller and smaller, and in this case, it is basically unrealistic to get tiger bones, although there are still poachersBut it is not appropriate from both a moral point of view and a legal point of view.
After all, the current tiger has long become a national protected animal, although the tiger's bones are used in medicine, and the medicinal effect is indeed very powerful, but now, this has become an impossible thing, and people are looking for substitutes when they find the bones of the mole squirrel.
In this way, for the farmer uncle, the number of moles can be curbed at the source, crops and farmland can be protected, and from another point of view, the rural peopleYou can also get more income through moles, so why not.
Therefore, there is an old Chinese saying that is very good, that is, feng shui takes turns, and you should never underestimate any kind of thing you will encounter in life, or animals and plants, if you find the right way,One day, these things that are not worth looking at now will become channels that can make money in the future.
The fate of the mole is like this, from the beginning of everyone hated, to now, someone specially provides them with food and drink, in fact, for the short life of the mole, this is also a good choice, after all, this is much better than being poisoned or drowned at birth.