Chapter 9 The scorpion stung don't call me mom

When it comes to the five poisons, there are different opinions in the south and the north. There are centipedes but not scorpions in the five poisons in the south, and scorpions but not centipedes in the five poisons in the north, so the five poisons in the north and the south are different.Both centipedes and scorpions (coir coir worms) are arthropods with 22 segments, each segment has a pair of feet, sharp hooks and claws with small holes at the end, and venom is emitted from the venom glands.In the north, there are only gnats and Qian Chuanzi (insect names).I have lived in the north for decades, and I only saw a big red centipede seven or eight inches long in the concierge of my house. It is said that it might have come across the sea from a load of vegetables sold in the south. There are no centipedes in the north. .

Scorpions belong to the spider family. They are generally yellowish-brown, and there is a kind of blue-black. Beijingers call them green-headed scorpions, because the venom glands are particularly developed, and the sting is extremely painful.There are a pair of tentacles on the forehead of the scorpion, which are like claws of a crab, and a poisonous hook on the tail. When encountering an enemy, the tail will tilt upwards to sting and inject poison.If you are stung by it, the burning pain will be really unpleasant, and the pain will not be relieved until the venom disappears.Afraid of sunlight and fire, scorpions often hide in dark and damp places such as cracks in walls and house corners.A scorpion never stings for no reason. It is always humans or other insects that invade it first. In order to protect its own safety, it stabs with its hook.

Every family in Taiwan hates the cockroaches in the kitchen the most. No matter what insecticide you use to treat cockroaches, you spray them every day, and they will only disappear for a while. Once you stop spraying, it will be a weed. Endless, the spring breeze blows again, and after a few days, it slowly becomes active again.Scorpions are more terrifying than Taiwanese cockroaches in the northern countryside.Cockroaches just sip their food, which is unhygienic for humans and can easily infect diseases. Scorpions are different, because the lighting equipment in the countryside is not good, and there are dead corners everywhere. , It can be red, swollen and painful and unable to work for many days!

The fecundity of scorpions is amazing. When I was in elementary school, I was young and easy to play with. I used Zhao Ziyu’s cricket pots to raise many big green-headed scorpions. The cricket pots were tightly sewed. Although they are flat and good at drilling, they can’t run away Lose.Before giving birth, the whole body of the female scorpion is swollen and shiny. If you feed it some ant eggs, not only the expected date of delivery can be brought forward, but also the birth will be extremely fast.According to the elders, there are ninety-nine scorpions per fat, and the total number of scorpions including the mother is a hundred. When I was giving birth to scorpions, I counted them carefully, because scorpions grow fast and climb fast. countless.There are hundreds of babies per birth, maybe only a few more.When a scorpion gives birth, it is neither viviparous nor oviparous, but the female scorpion waiting to give birth. A burst of limbs trembles, and a slit is torn from the back, and the young scorpions scramble to squeeze out.When all the larvae are cleared, the female scorpion has exhausted her mother's duty at this time, shrunk into a sheet and cast off its skin.Because a scorpion is born without a mother, Beijingers say that if you are stung by a scorpion, you cannot call your mother, and the more you scream, the more painful it is.

The gecko is called a scorpion tiger in the north. It is soft and has neither a sharp sting nor a poisonous needle.The two met and fought, and finally the scorpion finally became the food in the mouth of the scorpion tiger.At first I heard people say that scorpions are no match for geckos, that’s why they are called geckos and scorpions. I didn’t quite believe it. To prove this, I raised several geckos in addition to scorpions.The body of the gecko is slippery and flat, so we have to keep it in a wire cage with fine holes and hang it in the air. Otherwise, it will be a cat's meal if you are not careful.

I put geckos and scorpions in a mung bean pot with a diameter of one meter, and watched them fight.Once the two meet at the bottom of the pelvis, the scorpion's usual high-spirited and arrogant attitude immediately restrains itself, and turns around to try to slip away, but its movements are not as fast as the gecko's. No, I had to fight hard in the end. As the saying goes, "one thing falls one thing" is not false at all.When a scorpion meets a gecko, it is like a tiger meeting a human or an animal. It loses its color in battle, its eyes and hands become weak, and it can only crouch down and stare in amazement, ready to wait.The gecko also knew that the other party was intimidated by its prestige, so it hurried around the scorpion. The circle became smaller and smaller. After two or three circles, it cleverly jumped over and stretched its slender tail a little on the scorpion's back. The non-oblique poisonous needle hits the gecko's tail.I think everything is in harmony with each other, and the size is really just right.The gecko took a poisonous injection, turned around immediately and wagged its tail, and quickly twisted off the tip of the poisoned tail. Although the gecko shook off a section of the tail, it didn't seem to care, and it still swam around the scorpion. Point the tail toward the scorpion's spine.The scorpion bent its hook and stabbed straight again. After two or three stings in a row, the gecko's tail broke two or three times (some people say that the gecko tails of Zhi, Lu, and Yu have two more joints than other gecko tails, which can be broken if encountering a stubborn enemy. Whether it is true to become a gecko with a bald tail or not, I have to consult the biology expert Professor Xia Yuanyu).The scorpion was exhausted after these several times of tossing, and the venom contained in the poisonous needle had been drained away, so it could only curl up and not move.The gecko decided that the time had come, and jumped forward, biting the belly of the scorpion first, then biting and chewing, and devoured the huge scorpion in an instant.A battle between geckos and scorpions is a small insect, but it is more interesting to watch them fight wits and wits and use their wits and wits carefully than watching cockfights and quail fights!There are geckos everywhere in Taiwan, and the male geckos in the south of Hsinchu still sing loudly. Unfortunately, Taiwan does not produce scorpions, so this kind of battle scene cannot be glimpsed.

This year when scorpions seem to be going away, in the Olympic Games held in Moscow, there was a commemorative medal made by a country in the shape of a scorpion. At the World Sports Equipment Exhibition held in Europe in autumn, the manufacturer "Shangyun Company" launched a strange shape. The tennis racket, named "Scor-pion", is made of aluminum alloy, has an enlarged hitting area and strong hitting toughness, and has attracted the attention of all parties, so it has received many orders.Unexpectedly, the disgusting scorpion is so lucky that some people use it as a signboard as a cover!