Many villagers in Shanxi suffer from slime insects, which are so harmful that they have nowhere to go (multiple pictures)

Sticky insects are everywhere in Pingdiquan village, Yuanping City (video screenshot) Li Zhanshu, a 70 year old villager in Pingdiquan village, Yuanping Town, has been working on crops all his life, but he is still scared by the slime insects in the corn fields Swarms of slime insects climbed up the ridges and roads, and he walked to the fields to do farm work, with almost no place to go From late June to early July, an agricultural pest called slime insect broke out in our province This time, the slime insect damage, from south to north, affected many places, Xinzhou, Shuozhou, Datong, Changzhi, Luliang and other places are particularly serious According to the monitoring data of the provincial plant protection station, the occurrence area of slime insects in the whole province is more than 5.7 million mu, which is the most serious one in 20 years In recent days, reporters have investigated this In late June, Li Zhanshu found that there were many slime worms in his corn fields Pingdiquan village, where Li Zhanshu is located, is a demonstration village of corn mechanization production in Yuanping City, Xinzhou The village is flat, surrounded by arable land, planted with corns, which can't be seen at a glance Slime insect is a common agricultural pest, which grows on corn At first, it didn't attract much attention of Uncle Li Zhanshu However, he soon found that this year, unlike the previous years, there are more and more insects in the corn field in the village, which is frightening At the end of June, in the corn field with the most slime insects, almost every corn was crawling with insects, and the leaves were gnawed out of holes Some corn leaves are completely gnawed Li Zhanshu saw that the slime insects in the field attracted groups of birds to peck The branches and wires of the field were covered with swallows However, flocks of birds do not seem to play a significant role in reducing the number of slime worms Slime insects eat leaves, endangering the growth of corn Some anxious villagers began to cure the crops As more and more villagers gave medicine to their corn fields, the pesticides in the pesticide shop near pingpingquan village were snapped up In late June, Huangfu Meiling, the former head of the plant protection station of pingpingmunicipal Agricultural Committee, received a response from the people in Pingdiquan village that there was a slime insect disaster in the corn field of the village Huangfu Meiling and her colleagues rushed to Pingdiquan village to investigate the slime insect disaster, and she was shocked by the survey results: more than 6000 mu of arable land in Pingdiquan village, of which more than 5000 mu of arable land suffered from slime insect damage 5000 mu of arable land is mainly planted with corn, and some plots are planted with wheat The slime insect first hatched in the wheat field and then migrated to the corn field According to the national pest control standards, if the number of slime insects per hundred corn plants is less than 10, they can not be controlled However, Huangfu Meiling found that the number of corn slime insects per hundred plants in Pingdiquan village was more than 200, and the number of corn slime insects per hundred plants in the most serious area was more than 1000, which was far beyond the control standard At the beginning of July, there was a large migration of slime insects in the farmland damaged by slime insects in Pingdiquan village There were slime insects everywhere on the ridge, on the road and beside the water channel Villagers, worried about the spread of slime insects, set up a wall They put water in irrigation canals and put pesticides in the water Huangfu Meiling soon reported the outbreak of slime insects in Pingdiquan village to the provincial plant protection station and Yuanping Municipal Agricultural Committee Almost at the same time as Huangfu Meiling reported the slime insect disaster to her superiors, the provincial plant protection station received the slime insect hazard reports from all parts of the province Materials show that since June, slime insects have occurred in many areas of our province In addition to Linfen and Yuncheng, Xinzhou, Shuozhou, Changzhi, Datong and Luliang are seriously harmed by myxoids, with an area of 5.72 million mu The main crops affected are wheat, corn, millet and sorghum On July 3, the Provincial Department of Agriculture issued the emergency notice on strengthening the prevention and control of slime insects, which requires that farmers be widely mobilized to take effective measures to prevent and control slime insects A battle for slime control is underway Changzhi, Shuozhou, Datong, Luliang and Xinzhou started the control of slime insects, mobilized pesticides, organized plant protection and agricultural technicians, went deep into the field to control the harm of slime insects On July 5, Huangfu Meiling and her colleagues took part in the field training meeting of slime control organized by Yuanping Municipal Agricultural Committee The slime insect disaster in Yuanping City, involving many towns and townships, is listed as one of the hardest hit areas of the province In order to prevent and control the spread of slime insects and affect agricultural production, Yuanping Municipal Agricultural Committee established a special working group, which required the working group to go deep into the field to organize and help farmers to exterminate insects On July 6, Uncle Li Zhanshu arrived in the field early The night before, he learned from the village committee that the Municipal Agricultural Committee would organize villagers to give guidance on slime control The government appointed professional agricultural workers to guide the prevention and control of slime insects in the field and encouraged the enthusiasm of the villagers In the next few days, busy figures flashed in the corn fields where the slime insects were harming Pingdi spring Spraying pesticides on thousands of mu of corn is a kind of heavy gas activity The villagers carried heavy medicine barrels on their backs After a day, they were so tired that their backs were aching A few days later, the Municipal Commission of agriculture transferred mechanized pesticide spraying equipment to help villagers speed up the progress of pesticide spraying Li Zhanshu was surprised to see that the new machine not only saves manpower, but also has a high efficiency of pesticide spraying "A machine can hold more than ten people." On July 14, all 5000 mu corn fields in Pingdiquan village completed pesticide spraying In fact, in response to this large-scale outbreak of slime insects, our province has also used aircraft In late June, myxoid disaster broke out in Weixiang, Dahuang, Yingxian county Among them, the maximum number of one hundred slime insects is 2500, and the insects bite the leaves of corn in disorder, making it one of the hardest hit areas in the province At 9 a.m on July 6, a small agricultural plane rose in the wind, turned a corner in the distance, and then flew to a corn field in the price of rhubarb The small plane flew to the ground, and a mist of water was sprayed from the tail of the plane Over the corn field, the water mist diffuses and falls, forming a drop of water on the corn stalk and leaves The water drops contain special pesticides that can kill slime insects The small plane, coordinated by the provincial plant protection station, flew from Yuncheng to Yingxian to support the local control of slime insects In recent years, it is the second time to use aircraft to control agricultural pests in our province It was the first time in the last century that an airplane was used to control agricultural pests in our province In the same year, locust disaster broke out in Datong area In order to control the pest, the air force sent an aircraft to carry out the aerial spraying operation under the coordination of the relevant departments of the province The pest disaster was controlled in time and good results were achieved However, the procedure of transferring aircraft from the army is complicated Since then, our province has not taken aircraft to control agricultural pests The two small airplanes used for pesticide spraying in Yingxian county were purchased by an agricultural cooperative in Yuncheng this spring and manufactured by an aircraft manufacturer in the United States, each of which costs more than 400000 yuan Compared with manual spraying, the efficiency of spraying pesticide in the air by small aircraft is greatly improved The price of rhubarb is 2000 mu in Weixiang, where the corn field suffering from myxomycetes disaster is sprayed with pesticides Two small airplanes can be completed in only one day At present, through the active efforts of all regions, the harm of slime insects in our province has been basically controlled this year 3 The harm of slime insect has been basically controlled Why did the harm of slime insect break out this year in our province? What is the impact on the agricultural production of our province? On July 17, the reporter interviewed Zhang Dongxia, chief of the prevention and control section of the provincial plant protection station In August last year, an outbreak of slime insect disaster occurred in North and Northeast China, Zhang Dongxia said After a large number of slime worms emerged as slime moths, they flew back to the south to lay eggs for overwintering, resulting in a relatively high number of slime worms this year From May to June this year, the myxoid larvae emerged into myxoid moths in Jiangsu price, Jiangxi, Shandong and other places, flew to the north, entered our province for spawning and hatching, and produced myxoid larvae Therefore, the second generation of myxoid that year is harmful to our crops this time Since May this year, there has been a lot of rainfall in the north and central part of our province, which is suitable for the hatching and development of slime insects, and the final outbreak of slime insect disaster Slime insects are harmful to agriculture only in larval stage It belongs to Lepidoptera Noctuidae and likes to lay eggs in warm and humid wheat fields, rice and grass It takes 8-10 days for the eggs to hatch into larvae, 6-7 days for the first molting, 3 days for the second to the fifth molting, and 6-7 days for the sixth molting Every time slime insect molts its skin, it grows up and its food consumption increases In our province, myxoid larvae feed on leaves of corn, millet and sorghum In case of large-scale outbreak, all the leaves of crops can be eaten up, seriously damaging the growth of crops 6 times molting becomes myxoid pupa, until it becomes myxoid moth again, it no longer eats plant leaves, but eats nectar, so it no longer does harm to agriculture Zhang Dongxia, section chief, said that in many places of the province, the provincial plant protection station has 14 stations All of these stations are equipped with test lights The myxomoth has phototaxis habit, and the forecast light attracts the myxomoth The plant protection personnel on duty can observe and record the number of myxomoth, and then report it to the main station After receiving the data, Zhang Dongxia made an annual comparison to predict the harm of slime insects in that year According to the monitoring data, the number of myxomoths moved into our province this year is far more than that of the previous years, and the area of damage has become the widest in 20 years "Because of the timely killing of insects, the slime insect damage on the growth of autumn crops in our province is not particularly big." Zhang Dongxia finally said