What should I do if I get stung by a spicebush? What does it do as a pest?

The spice is one of the shadows of the childhood of many youngsters, including myself. I remember when I was a kid, there was a date tree in front of my house before the dates are a mother to play, one year my brother and I saw the date tree on the red dates greedy bad, they took a bamboo pole to play, the results of my brother's whole back were stung by the spicy seeds, my arms, neck, legs are also full of rows of bumps, and pain and itchy.

The first thing you need to do is to know how to sting a person.

The main effect on the skin is the fine hairs of the body, the fine hairs of the spice are generally a cluster of a cluster, many together with a bump on the body, this bump is the poison gland of the spice, when we touch with the body, these fine hairs carrying a certain amount of venom will stab into our pores, thus triggering an allergic reaction.

Now that we understand that the foreign spice is stinging, the response method comes. The first is the tape method, when the fine hairs of the spicy seeds into our pores, we go to grab with our hands, will come to a burst of stinging pain, this is the fine hairs continue to attack our subcutaneous, at this time the best way is not to grab, quickly home to get the tape, sticky stung parts, so the fine hairs will be brought out, although the toxins on the fine hairs are still in our subcutaneous, the amount has been relatively small, this method at the time I tried it on my brother, and after an hour or so, the bumps on his back disappeared, and it didn't hurt anymore.

The next is the wind spirit. The wind oil essence can be said to be a "magic weapon", whether, by mosquito bites, or sleepy snooze, it can always help us, and wind oil essence against spicy stings is also very good, the principle of the wind oil essence has a lot to do with the ingredients, its composition of menthol, eucalyptus oil, camphor, and other ingredients have a cool, wind, itch, pain, etc.

I also used wind oil drops on the spice, the result is that it quickly twisted the body dead, this experiment is very close to the leech to do as a child salt. However, nowadays, the price of wind spirit seems to have increased, as a child I remember it was 50 cents a bottle, nowadays it seems to be 2.5 yuan, right?

The third toothpaste. This method is used less as a child, the reason is simple, less does not work well, with more to be beaten. If you use toothpaste, you should evenly cover the stinging place, forming a white layer, so that after a few minutes that hot stinging sensation will be reduced, wait until the toothpaste is completely dry, when they peel off, the symptoms disappeared.

Based on the fact that both toothpaste and Windex have mint in them, I seriously doubt that the cooling and anti-itching ability of mint is playing an effect, and the toothpaste coming off should also take the fine hairs in the pores with it. Pieces

These three methods are after my childhood experiments, very effective, and as a child, I also tried to put the foreign spice with two wooden sticks pinched up into the heart of the hand, the results did not get stung, later I learned that this is because the palm no pores, which makes their fine hairs can not be stuck under our skin, and finally let us be able to play the foreign spice in the palm.

Well, we are still the same rules, come together to understand what insects can be called the childhood shadow of many partners. Do they have any roles?

Spice

The name "chili" is given to it based on physical sensation, not its scientific name, after all, the part that is stung by it is really hot and itchy. It is a green moth with two tentacles along the sides of its head and yellowish-brown wings, which are usually diurnal and phototropic, often found on elm trees and fruit trees such as date palms, apples, and pears.

Brown-sided green moths are distributed in almost most provinces in China, mainly feeding on plant leaves, July-September every year is their most rampant season when the female moths will look for some more complete leaves on the parasitic trees, and then lay eggs on the back of the leaves, the hatching period of the eggs is usually only about 7 days, after which they will turn into foreign spices, and with the continuous eating of leaves, their size begins to As they continue to eat the leaves, they begin to grow in size and eventually become a pupa like a clay pot, which in turn transforms into a spiny moth.

However, the moths overwinter not by pupae, but by cocoons. Some late hatching larvae (spicebush) will protect themselves with cocoons when they become old larvae, and these cocoons are white and cling to the trunk or branches so that they can come out to pupae and become adults in May and June of the next year.

Brown-sided green spider moth jar

What is the use of magenta seeds?

Spicebush and its adults are agricultural pests, especially spicebush, which not only harms trees but also stings people. However, they are not useless because today the spicebush jar, the pupal stage of the spicebush moth, is a hot commodity. This is because, in the pupal stage, the spicebush actually has no more poisonous glands and fine hairs, and then after cooking, its protein content is high and tasty.

Plus, although there are a lot of foreign spicy seeds, but it is not simple to find their pupae, and sometimes find the pupae or an empty can, so today's foreign spicy seeds can be sold for hundreds of dollars a pound.

In addition, many people say that the foreign chili itself after cooking is also first-class delicious, for this I personally skeptical, although it is said that many animal toxins belong to the protein class, high temperature can be broken down, but how to deal with these fine hairs? Even if you deal with the fine hairs, the guy's body is almost exclusively viscera, I used a tree branch as a child to pressure burst countless foreign chili, and the flow out is usually dark green and black liquid, with some viscera, anyway, quite disgusting.

Summary

If you go to the countryside or an orchard in July-September, you must be careful of the spider, it is best to bring some tape, Windex or something like that so that if you get stung you can deal with it in time, and be especially careful of date palms and common fruit trees, which are a mecca for them.

What do you think about this insect? Have you ever been stung by it when you were a child?