Li Shuqi recovered 200000 from raising grasshopper in three years.

When it comes to grasshoppers, many people think of locusts. However, Li Shuqi in Yongning Town, Yanqing, took the grasshopper as a guest and built a greenhouse to raise 2 million grasshoppers. He not only recovered the 200000 yuan of initial investment, but also began to make a profit.

"the grasshopper, there is only one stubble left." A peasant proverb buckles this six-legged bug with a "negative image" that can never be washed all his life-when it comes to it, many people will associate it with the plague of locusts. However, Li Shuqi in Yongning Town, Yanqing, took the grasshopper as a guest and built a greenhouse to raise 2 million grasshoppers. He not only recovered the 200000 yuan of initial investment, but also began to make a profit.

Li Shuqi takes care of the grasshopper in the greenhouse. Photo / reporter Tian Baoxi

In order to prevent the invasion of toads, crows, chickens and other animals, Lao Li leads the dog on patrol every day.

Grasshoppers can only be caught at night. They put handfuls of grasshoppers into net pockets with their hands, and only finish catching a shed in one night.

When the grasshopper is raised in the greenhouse, the toad can only stare.

Grasshoppers live and breed by eating forage, and Lao Li specially planted wheat in the greenhouse.

Don't get pesticides on the forage, or the grasshopper will die. Lao Li washes the forage repeatedly every day.

The whole family went to war and caught it all night.

At 11:00 on the night of the 15th, the town of Yongning in Yanqing was starry, and the crickets in the fields called twice from time to time.

Li Shuqi, 61, tilted his head and listened attentively to the five greenhouses outside the door. The sound of "rustling" in the shed slowly diminished, and he led the family to put on headlights, picked up a net bag and wormwood, and walked out the door.

What they want to catch is not anything rare, but in the eyes of this family, hundreds of jin of grasshoppers in the shed are treasures.

Five greenhouses, 2 million grasshoppers, 75 days of feeding, and tens of thousands of jin of forage, the grasshoppers captured tonight will become a heavy harvest. Thinking that he had made an appointment with the merchant to buy it the next morning, Li Shuqi narrowed his eyes with laughter.

"as soon as it gets cold at night, the grasshopper can't fly, so he can go into the greenhouse and catch it!" He said.

The grasshopper all over the ground makes people feel that there is no "standing cone", so they can only use Artemisia argyi to drive out a small piece of open space for people to stand. The family stood on tiptoe for fear of trampling on the little guys.

The elderly are responsible for driving away with Artemisia argyi, the young are responsible for opening the net, and the bold ones, together with Lao Li, put a handful of grasshoppers into the net pocket. It was not easy to grab one and put it in the net pocket, but several jumped out at once. The tug-of-war lasted more than two hours before the whole family caught a grasshopper in the shed.

200000 of the investment realized by selling insects has been paid back.

After tossing about all night, the grasshoppers in the five greenhouses were "obediently obedient."

At about 7 o'clock in the morning, everyone hammered their sour waist and sat in the greenhouse, allowing the "missing fish" to jump around on their heads, too tired to pay attention.

At about 8 o'clock, there was a sound of cars coming in the distance, and Lao Li's dog began to bark to inform its owner. He quickly got out of the greenhouse, a white gold cup parked next to the greenhouse, and the grasshopper merchant came!

The family picked up 23 full bags of grasshoppers and put them in front of the car.

Lao Li trotted all the way home, carried out the scale and put it in the yard, weighing and counting bag by bag, while his wife stood by and calculated the jin with the merchant. Every time Lao Li finished counting, his wife made two strokes.

All 23 bags of grasshoppers have been weighed, more than 220 kilograms. The buyer complained that the quantity was too small, while Lao Li began to complain that the grasshopper did not cooperate, and there were a lot of things left in the greenhouse that could not be caught.

After weighing and counting, the buyer sent 48 hundred-yuan bills, and Lao Li smiled foolishly, because it only cost more than 800 yuan to buy worm eggs, but also because after this time, the 200000 yuan spent on land rental and shed construction has already been returned to the cost. You can make a net profit right away.

After taking the money and counting it three times, the family was busy helping the buyer carry the grasshopper into the Golden Cup car. Photo taken by this page / reporter Tian Baoxi

First-time grasshopper villagers are afraid of a plague of locusts.

Three years ago, Lao Li inadvertently learned that raising a grasshopper could make money, so he discussed it with his wife to make a living, but his wife said he was whimsical. Helplessly, he had to take his wife to the city market to find out.

When his wife saw that a jin of grasshoppers could be sold for 30 yuan in the market, she finally made up her mind to support Lao Li, so the couple invested more than 200,000 yuan to build a greenhouse to raise grasshoppers.

There are more than 800 species of grasshoppers, of which only Southeast Asian migratory locusts and rice migratory locusts are edible. After investigation and study, Lao Li chose the second generation of Southeast Asian migratory locusts as the breeding variety.