Ruyang County, Henan Province: "poison" business to get rich

On August 25, in Yangjiaogou formation of Wangping formation in Wangping Township, Ruyang County, Henan Province, wasp farmer Zhang Qingmin and his partner Song Dashou put on special protective clothing and were preparing to harvest bee pupae. "just now I went to have a look next to the gourd bag and my hand was accidentally stung by a wasp." Song Dashou told reporters.

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In the mountains, there is a habit of making gourd-shaped nests of aged bark on top of tall trees, which is called "gourd bag". Even if people in the mountains mention the gourd bag, they all stay away, because this kind of Hu Feng is tall, toxic and aggressive, and if he is stung, the pain is unbearable and the heavy one is killed.

Zhang Qingmin, 46, is a person who specializes in wasp farming. "the gourd bag can pick three crops of pupae every year, starting around July 15 of the lunar calendar, every 20 days, and the yield of each litter is about 10 jin." Zhang Qingmin told reporters.

Gourd echinococcosis, that is, wasp pupa, is rich in protein, is a rare delicacy, the mountain people risk picking, in addition to food, but also sold to the catering industry, the price per kilogram is about 160 yuan. Zhang Qingmin, who lives in the mountains, saw business opportunities and came up with the idea of raising wasps.

If you want to keep a gourd bag, you must first have a queen bee. In May this year, Zhang Qingmin and Song Dashan jointly invested tens of thousands of yuan to study from other places and introduced more than 100 queen bees. After careful feeding, when the wasps were bred to about 5, and the honeycomb took shape, according to their living habits, they chose the hillside near their homes as breeding sites, hung their nests on trees, and they successfully developed more than 100 nests of gourd bags.

On the same day, at the pupa gathering site, I saw two "bold" men, Zhang Qingmin and Song Dashou, who put on protective suits as thick as spacesuits and sealed the clothing connections with each other to prevent wasps from "invading." go into Zhang Qingmin, a gourd bag breeding site with 28 wasp hives, choose a larger gourd bag, and Song Da Shou carefully picks up a piece of the hive skin with a knife. Then cut off the connection between the beehive and the beehive with the self-made tool, and take out 3 beehives. Thousands of wasps swooped crazily around the gourd bag after cutting, and it was extremely difficult to pick pupae.

Zhang Qingmin said: "Wasps have three treasures: bee pupae, bee venom and beehives." Bee pupae can be on the table, bee venom has a special poison collector to collect, bee venom and beehive have high medicinal value, this gourd bag is not bad. "

Wasps feed on many kinds of leaf-eating plant pests, such as locusts, caterpillars, bean green insects, and so on. In the farmland next to the breeding site, the beans planted by Zhang Qingmin are blooming and growing delightfully. Zhang Qingmin pointed to the bean field and told the reporter: "there are no pests in my beans, and there are no pests in the nearby forest. This thing is the guardian of crops and forests."

Zhang Qingmin is full of confidence in his "gourd bag career": "raising a gourd bag as long as it hangs its nestling on a tree will not worry about it. It feeds and makes its own nest. The key is to take good care of it and prevent people or large livestock from entering the breeding area to avoid causing stinging accidents." just wait for the harvest. Through the success of this year's trial breeding, the scale of breeding will be expanded next year, gradually radiating the surrounding villages, and driving the neighbors to become rich. "