Gu Qingling asked: "But why should they be buried 10 cm? Can't they be buried deeper or shallower? And they should be placed on the tidal flats, not buried in a dryer or wetter place? They reproduce in summer and autumn, why don't they choose to be in winter? Why can't we see larvae in winter, only in spring..."
Several questions were raised in a row, and everyone started to answer them in a slight manner.
Everyone has taken agricultural classes and knows that animals, like plants, require environment, temperature, humidity, and even the sun.
The lack of any thing may cause the plant to fail to grow or die.
Where are the animals?
Although it is a little different, some principles are the same.
"Because no matter whether it is deep or shallow, the eggs cannot hatch."
"Is the tidal flat more suitable because of humidity? It is too dry and lacks water and is too wet to hatch."
"Is it possible that winter is too cold and it hatchs after it gets warm? Isn't the hen hatching eggs just because the hen stays in the container, so the eggs are warm?"
...
Compared to others, Yao Jiuye has read the special "Insect Observation Diary" and has a much deeper understanding of locusts than everyone else.
The living environment of locusts and the conditions required for reproduction are very clear.
Yao Jiuye said with his eyes shiny: "Just like when the hen hatches an egg, it will be hot and cold, and the cold and hot alternate. The egg will quickly turn into a dead egg and cannot hatch chicks. The same is true for locust eggs. As long as we destroy its hatching environment, the locust eggs will not be able to hatch."
"Even if we can't destroy all of them, even if we only destroy part of them, it is a great achievement." The twenty-second prince Li Zheng said happily, "Locusts will cause disasters because they are large in number, so we have already solved some of them when they hatch, which is definitely a great achievement."
"Even if some of them hatch and there is no food for them to eat, a batch can still starve to death. Even if they can't starve to death, they can't starve and lose their strength to fly so far."
...
If you don’t need Gu Qingling’s guidance, someone will take it.
"When locusts are eggs, we destroy their hatching environment. When they hatch and have no food, when they grow up, they encounter a large number of natural enemies... I don't believe it. If this happens, can they still cause disaster?"
"It will definitely not be possible. Unless they have a particularly hard life, they will not be able to live forever. The survival of the fittest in the animal world is very cruel."
"Then let's discuss what we can do in each link."
...
Immediately afterwards, they began to fill in their "Locust Elimination Plan" on the board.
The first stage is to destroy the growth environment of locust eggs.
Although it is not 100% determined, from the perspective of temperature, humidity, etc. affecting the growth conditions of animals and plants, they can destroy the original geographical special tidal flats by turning the ground, changing the mudflat into a pond, etc., so as to achieve the purpose of destroying the locust hatching environment.
In the second stage, the locusts hatch successfully (larvae to adult) stage.
As mentioned earlier, locusts cannot grow without food. When they are young and cannot fly that far, they can reduce the types of edible plants nearby and change to plants that they do not eat.
According to the current known research results, locusts do not eat soybeans, alfalfa, fruit trees and other trees, which are all reference areas.
In the third stage, the stage of smooth growth of locusts (before the locust plague).
Locusts have grown up and can fly, but they are not far away. At this time, they can be used to destroy locusts' natural enemies, frogs, birds and other animals.
Among them, chickens and ducks are within a controllable range, which can encourage large-scale farming in areas with frequent locust origin and frequent occurrence.
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The board was filled little by little, gradually becoming what it should have been.
Gu Qingling looked at the board, then looked at them seriously and had a smile on their faces.
Gu Qingling naturally knew how terrible the locust plague was.
In the original owner's memory, she had experienced such dark times, but she looked like a lady from a great family and a noble family, and was more "heard" than witnessing it with her own eyes.
The original owner also gave away items to help the victims, and he also prayed to God, hoping that the disaster would pass as soon as possible...
It’s not that people in this era don’t want to solve the problem of locust plague, but they have never found a way.
Gu Qingling has memories of her previous life, and she knows how her country prevents and controls locust plagues.
From biological control, agricultural control to chemical control, various means.
She wanted to bring those advanced thoughts and scientific ideas to this world.
But she also knew that with her own strength, she could not solve all problems.
At the same time, she also needs to find a reasonable "source" for these things.
Books have become her best choice.
Therefore, she trained a large number of book editors, established her own bookstore, her own bookstore... and directly created a complete upstream and downstream industrial chain.
She needs to take this industrial chain completely into her own hands so that she can output what she wants.
Among them, "Insect Observation Diary" and "Agricultural Talk" are one of them.
Now, the knowledge about insects, especially the various knowledge points about locusts that Yao Jiuye and the princes and grandchildren have learned, are provided by Gu Qingling, and some are obtained by editors organized by Gu Qingling, and agronomists through observation and records and experiments.
She knew that after these books entered the market, there would definitely be no Four Books and Five Classics, and the biographies of famous artists were observed by scholars.
Maybe it will be mixed with some third-rate books and become the "miscellaneous books" in everyone's hands.
But even so what?
Even if the content in the book looks boring, weird, or not worth reading, Gu Qingling believes that the world is so big, there will always be one or two people who will notice the content and find ways to verify whether what is said is true.
As long as someone wants to verify it, then...
Is she still afraid that they will not be able to find the locust plague prevention and control office?
She didn't tell them directly how to prevent and control locust plagues, but look, isn't there anyone who has started to "tidy up" now?
But what Gu Qingling didn't expect was that the person who led the lead would be Yao Jiuye, the twenty-second prince Li Zheng, the grandson of the emperor, and the others.
Somewhat unexpected, but also seems...informational.
Who else in the world has such ideas as they are closer to their own, and is more able to accept the contents of these books?
It took several days before Yao Jiuye and the others finally got the board ready.
After they made it out, they all felt a little incredible.
They didn't know if the content they sorted out was correct, and whether the "locustard plan" they sorted out was feasible. But they thought that since they sorted out, they would publish it in the newspaper and let the people all over the world discuss it together.
Chapter completed!