Chapter 6 Part Four: The Incredible Wisdom of Bedbugs
The three articles in a row are all about life and death matters, and this one is about a lighter matter.There is an experience that I always like to use as a talking point when talking about the world.However, it has been said for nearly twenty years, but no one believed it, thinking it was a made-up story. Until six or seven years ago, in Taipei, a few people chatted and talked about this matter again, and only talked about the first half. Zama A gentleman picked it up. It turned out that he had the same experience. It proved to be no nonsense. He was inexplicably happy that night. Unfortunately, his memory was not good. He only remembered that this gentleman was an art worker in the film industry. up.
That incident happened in Nanjing.I have only been to Nanjing once in my life, and it was summer.The summer heat in Nanjing is indescribably hot, beyond the imagination of Hong Kong people. Nanjing is one of the four cities known as China's four major furnaces.It was midnight when I got off the train, got out of the station, got into the carriage, and went straight to the hotel. Along the way, there was a bit of wind, but it was a pity that it was not a cool breeze, but a hot one.
When I arrived at a small hotel, I was exhausted. I lay on the bunk, flapping my cattail fan, and fell asleep, sweating profusely.Not long after I slept, suddenly my whole body was very itchy. In a daze, I scratched while sleeping, but the more I scratched, the more something went wrong. I jumped out of bed, turned on the light and saw that my whole body was numb, not even itchy. It turned out that the floor was covered with bedbugs, the number of which was indescribable.On the bunk, one after another, they lined up exactly like a human-shaped plane. When the people jumped up, the formation was scattered. That ugly, blood-sucking and smelly little reptile wriggled on the bunk, The sense of fear in my heart naturally reached its peak.While screaming horribly, he slapped the bedbugs on his body, landed on the floor, and trampled them with his feet.
Small hotels don't have any soundproofing equipment. After this commotion, they naturally woke up to watch the watchmen. One of the passengers gave a pack of insecticidal powder. This insecticidal powder is called Liuliuliu.
With the insecticide powder, I saw how the bed bugs would lift people up. I dare not sleep on the bed anyway. Fortunately, the floor looked clean, so I cleaned the dead bed bugs on the floor and put them on the bed. Six-liu-liu powder was sprinkled in a large circle. People lay in the circle and observed for a while. Once the bedbugs climbed close to the powder circle, they could not move forward. It was indeed effective in repelling insects, so they turned off the lights and thought they could sleep peacefully.
Unexpectedly, when Menglong fell asleep, her whole body was itchy again.The medicinal powder obviously has the effect of preventing bedbugs from invading, so why do they get bitten everywhere?Jumping up and looking at the light again, I couldn't help being stunned, I couldn't believe my eyes!
(Whenever I talk about this matter, when I get to this point, I always stop and ask the listeners: Guess what I saw?)
No one can always guess it, and it is always revealed what has been seen, and no one is willing to believe it.
Until I met that gentleman, he took it up, and what he said was what I saw at the time.
He said: I know, you see the bedbugs line up, along the foot of the wall, up the wall, then, go up the ceiling, get on top of you, and then fall down, into the circle of powder, they don't have to go through the powder Quan, with this method, he can also get close to you and suck your blood!
That's right, that's how it is.This is really unbelievable, that paper-thin insect, in order to survive, has such high intelligence!Moreover, an insect can attach itself to the body on a rough surface, but when it reaches the sky, how does it know how to relax the force on its feet so that the body can fall down?At that time, when the lights were on, the ranks of bedbugs on the walls and ceiling were still mighty, one by one, the bedbugs kept falling from the ceiling, and landed in the middle of the powder circle without fail!
Naturally, I didn't sleep for a night, and before I left, I found a small bottle, caught five fat ones that were full of blood, put them into the bottle, and put the stopper in order to see their ecology.But soon I forgot about it. About a year later, I suddenly found this bottle and saw a few small off-white transparent flakes in the bottle, like flaky skin. Think about what it is.
Open the cork and pour out the thin slices. Because the thin slices are too light, they floated down instead of falling. Two of them fell on the back of the hand, like a magician performing a superb technique. Looking at the two sheets, in less than 30 seconds, they turned from white to red, and began to swell, from a flat surface to a three-dimensional one. After more than a year, the bedbugs are still alive, and they will recover as soon as they have a chance. It has lost its blood-sucking instinct!
After staring blankly, I felt extremely terrified in my heart. I felt that the vitality of human beings was incomparable to that of bedbugs, so I screamed nervously, and turned the five bedbugs into powder, but the lingering fear in my heart still exists today. !
Bedbugs can be found everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Nanjing. The Japanese call them Nanjing bugs.There are also psyllids in Guangdong, also known as psyllids, which were found in Hong Kong theaters in the early days, but now they seem to be less and less.
Bedbugs, also known as bedbugs, are creatures of the class Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, and Bedbugs in terms of biological classification. They live by sucking the blood of warm-blooded animals.Of the blood-sucking insects, bedbugs aren't the scariest, not the mildest, somewhere in between.
I have had experience with several other formidable and milder blood-sucking insects, and I will, of course, return to that.