Some time ago, the issue of electric earthworms attracted widespread attention and discussion among netizens. Electric earthworms use a machine similar to electric fish to insert two electrodes into the ground. After turning on the switch, earthworms will automatically drill out of the ground. All that is left is to pick them up and put them in a bag. Skilled operators can earn tens of thousands per month with an electric earthworm machine, and the investment cost is only a few hundred yuan for an electric earthworm machine.
Although electric earthworms are very profitable, their damage to the environment cannot be ignored. Scientists believe that when the number of earthworms per square meter of soil is greater than 50, it means that the soil is in a healthy state; when the number is between 20 and 50, it means that the soil is in a healthy state; The soil is in a moderate state of degradation; when the number is between 4 and 20, it means that the soil is in a state of severe degradation; when the number is less than 4, it means that the soil is in an extremely unhealthy state. "After a piece of healthy land has been visited a few times by people with electric earthworms, it suddenly becomes hardened, the water storage decreases, and the problem of reduced soil fertility will quickly become apparent. Fortunately electric earthworms are now as illegal as electric fish.
earthworms Later, wild scorpions also encountered a crisis.
The destruction of wild animals was not limited to electric earthworms. According to reports, wild scorpions in the Helan Mountains of Alxa in Inner Mongolia also encountered a serious crisis. The price of wild scorpions is currently very expensive, with the price of a pound of live scorpions. At 400-500 yuan, the main reason for the high price of live scorpions is that the market is in short supply. The demand for scorpions mainly comes from two aspects: the first is as a delicacy. In the night markets of some big cities, fried scorpions and charcoal-grilled scorpions are popular. A new favorite. The second method is to dry them and use them as traditional Chinese medicinal materials. Although some farmers are engaged in scorpion breeding, they are far from meeting the market demand.
Scorpions are the general name of the order Arthropoda Arachnida Scorpions. Scorpions are all poisonous, but their toxicity is different. Scorpions are widely distributed in my country. The more common scorpions in my country are East Asian pincer , which are mainly distributed in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Anhui and other places. The average precipitation is 400 mm, but the evaporation is as high as more than 3,000 mm. The dry season is from July to October every year, with high temperatures and low humidity. Scorpions are animals that like tides and are afraid of dryness and are nocturnal, so grassland scorpions are Very active at night.
Scorpion Catchers Carpet Search for Scorpions
As the price of scorpions continues to rise, some people start to hunt wild scorpions in Alxa area of Inner Mongolia from June to September every year, and in surrounding Gansu, Ningxia and other places. All scorpion catchers will take transportation to the Alxa area. They use ultraviolet light to conduct carpet searches on the grassland at night when scorpions are active. The captured scorpions will be purchased by specialized people. Most of the purchasers come from In Henan, Shandong, and Hebei, with the decrease in wild scorpion resources and the increase in the number of people purchasing scorpions, the price of wild scorpions has increased from more than 100 yuan/jin at the beginning to nearly 500 yuan/jin now.
However, grassland scorpions have been sold out. Listed in "List of Key Protected Terrestrial Wild Animals in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region", It is illegal to capture wild scorpions without authorization in Inner Mongolia, and illegal acquisition of wild scorpions can also be carried out in accordance with "Wildlife Protection Law of the People's Republic of China " and " "Measures for the Investigation and Prohibition of Unlicensed Operations " will impose corresponding penalties. Recently, the media reported that the Alxa Left Banner Public Security Bureau in Inner Mongolia has so far cleared more than 500 scorpion catchers and confiscated 121 sets of scorpion catchers. 60.5 kilograms of scorpions were released, and a total of 8 cases of illegal capture and trading of wild scorpions were investigated.
How harmful is it to catch wild scorpions?
Scorpions can reproduce one generation a year. Although they can give birth to 30-50 scorpions at a time, newborn scorpions need to molt 6 times and take a total of 3 years to grow into adults. The reproduction speed of wild scorpions is far slower than the speed that people can capture them. . According to staff from the Helan Mountain Forestry Bureau in Ningxia, about 70% of the local wild scorpions have been captured, and more than 100,000 wild scorpions die every year in Yinchuan alone.
Although a scorpion does not look big, its appetite is huge. A scorpion can catch tens of thousands of locusts and other harmful insects in a year. Therefore, prairie scorpions have the reputation of being guardians of the prairie. Not only that, scorpions are also birds of the prairie. Prey for animals such as species, spiders, and geckos. If the number of scorpions drops significantly, the number of harmful insects such as locusts and crickets on the grassland will inevitably increase significantly, and the number of animals that feed on scorpions will also decrease. This will cause serious damage to the fragile grassland ecology. Experts predict that if the indiscriminate hunting of scorpions is not stopped, wild scorpions may become extinct in local areas.
At present, artificially cultivated scorpions have developed relatively maturely. It is hoped that the development of cultivated scorpions can make up for the market supply gap of scorpions to a greater extent, so that wild scorpions can be protected.
