Chapter 062: New Species Invading the Carrion Bug
Carrion worms will become the nightmare of countless people in the next few years. In her previous life, they were one of Jingshu's most hated worms, and they also became one of her food supplies when absolutely necessary. Although red nematodes have no taste, at least they are edible and will not make you sick.
However, carrion worms are too bitter to swallow, and eating them can cause illness and diarrhea. No one wants to eat them unless they are almost starving to death.
In her previous life, Jingshu was almost starving to death. When she gulped down a bowl of carrion worms, green juice would spurt out. It was bitter, full of hard residue, and had a strong and disgusting fishy smell, comparable to the world's smelliest can of herring.
But Jingshu, who was starving, heard from everyone that one cannot eat carrion worms by biting them, but has to swallow them directly. She ate them for two days in a row until rescue, but she was half dead from diarrhea every day.
Jingshu swore from then on that she would never eat carrion beetles again even if she died. That year, even delicious ingredients like maggots and red nematodes were frozen to death, leaving only powerful creatures like carrion beetles.
Because carrion beetles are omnivorous species, their favorite food is rotten corpses. They will be found wherever there are corpses of any small creatures. Eating them is almost like eating rotten corpses, and they will eat a stomach full of bacteria.
Wang Cuihua sent a voice message: "This is truly a curse from heaven! A newly opened bag of rice is now half infested with tiny black and green bugs. It's terrifying! As soon as I opened the bag, they started crawling around. Some of them even flew, filling the entire house! Others are crawling everywhere! What can I do? My rice!"
Wang Cuihua's message quickly attracted many responses.
Luozhu No. 9: "For the past few days, there's been a layer of dead flying insects floating in the bucket. Today, I looked again and the entire bucket was crawling with those dark green, densely packed, wriggling insects. I was so scared that I threw the bucket out."
Wind No. 3: "[Tears], I haven't taken out the trash for a few days since I was injured. I threw the maggots on my meat into the trash bag, and today I found a whole bag of dark green maggots crawling out. Could it be that the maggots have evolved into dark green? But why have they shrunk so much?"
Luxury Car Dealer #5: "I got bit! What should I do?! I woke up this morning and my entire bed was covered in this damn stuff. My body is also covered in red spots. Now it's swollen and painful. I went to the hospital and the doctor said my symptoms were too mild and refused to prescribe any medicine!"
Nowadays, almost every household has encountered this kind of carrion beetle, which can be found in rice weevils, rotten meat, dead maggots, etc.
The origin of carrion worms is the fish carcasses that were not salvaged in the sea and lakes in the early days of the apocalypse, the floating and rotting corpses of other dead creatures, and the corpses of various poultry that were buried after their death. In addition, the lack of sunlight for a long time to kill bacteria led to the evolution of new species invasion.
In the early stages, carrion beetles are twice as small as fleas, with a body length of 0.3 mm. However, like mealworms, they live in groups and like to crowd together densely. Once discovered, they form a large group and are easy to catch.
The queen worm can fly and dig holes. As long as she finds a corpse, she will eat it and reproduce thousands of worms continuously. It only takes a few days for another group of flying queen worms to look for food, and this cycle continues endlessly. Their living conditions are very simple, and one millet beetle is enough for a queen worm to reproduce.
Carrion beetles basically do not eat food, but now the weather is hot, and many foods are prone to grow small insects that are invisible to the naked eye. When the small insects die, they will attract carrion beetles, which also like human corpses.
It has many natural enemies on land, such as maggots, red nematodes, flying insects, chickens, ducks, humans, etc. As long as it is a living thing, they like to eat it. However, because the fish and other creatures in the lake were almost extinct in the first year, they reproduced wildly and destroyed the food chain inside. As a result, in the following years, a group of grown carrion worms would always rush in every high tide. They would crawl everywhere, and the female worms would fly around looking for anything edible.
Being bitten is very common in places like luxury car dealerships. When carrion beetles multiply to a certain extent in a place and have nothing to eat, they will eat everything, including people. Jingshu guessed that there must be a carrion beetle population in a certain place in the luxury car dealership, but he just didn't notice it.
Jingshu soon found the carrion worms in the pigpen of the villa, but unfortunately they were eaten up by the fat chicken in the blink of an eye. The fat chicken pecked at them at the same frequency as a woodpecker. The small carrion worms that were initially squeezed into a pile of wriggling were gone. Jingshu felt that the fat chicken could have another nickname, called Phantom Chicken.
The fat chicken went to the cowshed unsatisfied
, the sheep pen, and even under the apple tree to look for new insects. As for the chicken coop on the second floor, Jingshu does not allow it to enter, and the fat chickens can only eat insects to their heart's content during the time they are let out for exercise.
Jingshu went to the basement and searched carefully. The constant temperature here was set to better refrigerate food and grain. Now it is well protected. Most of the food was placed in this space because of the fear of insects.
Turning on all the lights in the villa, Jingshu went to the mushroom bag cultivation rack, the greenhouse, and the small bedroom on the second floor where feed was stored to check carefully one by one. After all, such small carrion beetles, especially when laying eggs, might hide anywhere and were very difficult to find. By the time they were found, they would be a large group.
In this life, Jingshu will never allow any carrion beetles to live in the place where she lives. She is really traumatized.
Finally, Jingshu found several piles of carrion beetles laying eggs in the greenhouse. Jing's mother cleaned it every day, so these must have just arrived and were reproducing.
There are too many fruits planted in the greenhouse, which will breed small flying insects such as honey bees. This is unavoidable. Any fruit will attract flying insects after a few days, and even potted plants and vegetables in the soil can attract small flying insects. Spraying medicated oil every day can solve the problem of carrion beetles, but Jingshu doesn't want to spray it on the food.
Looking from the second floor of the villa at the fat chickens in the yard searching for insects in the vegetable field, Jingshu suddenly had an idea. Carrion beetles have many natural enemies. Are bees one of them?
Thinking of this, Jingshu released some bees from the space above the carrion worms. The bees didn't seem very interested. They circled around the fruit first, and when there was no nectar to collect, they focused on the carrion worms laying eggs, and soon killed them all.
Since it was effective, Jingshu immediately built a small beehive in the greenhouse and raised dozens of bees. She didn't ask them to collect honey, but just wanted them to eat up the invading carrion beetles.
Then Jingshu took the diluted medicated oil and sprayed it in every corner of the villa. She also turned on the humidifier and dripped a few drops of floral water. This way, the villa would have a faint scent at all times, which greatly avoided the invasion of carrion beetles.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been feeding the bees in the space for half a year, but the bees know Jingshu just like the fat chickens, so they won’t sting her anymore. I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but no matter what, family members still have to wear hoods when they come in.
During dinner, Jingshu told her mother that she had found a beehive under the eaves and wanted to keep it in the greenhouse. She also said that she would be in charge of the greenhouse from now on. Jing's mother was happy to have some peace and quiet.
"By the way, can you get some more frogs?" Jingshu suddenly asked Wu Youai.
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