Su Chen nodded, sat on the chair, and continued to ask: "How is the current pest control situation?"
Liu Mo replied: "Reporting to the Lord Protector, everything is going well now. After the spraying of drugs, the extent of the locust plague has been reduced a lot."
"Now in the fields outside Guancheng, the number of locusts has been significantly reduced. The effect is amazing!"
Hearing this, Su Chen was very satisfied.
According to the current progress, eradicating the locust plague is just a matter of time.
"but……"
Liu Mo hesitated for a moment, but continued: "Duke Protector, this morning, when I led the people to inspect the fields, I discovered something."
"It's just...it seems that among the locust corpses all over the ground, small locusts have begun to jump around..."
Hearing this, Su Chen's face turned gloomy as he had just woken up.
In this cold winter month, the eggs of desert locusts can still hatch, and their vitality is quite tenacious, comparable to Xiaoqiang!
Moreover, who knows whether these locusts that hatched after pesticide spraying will become resistant to pesticides...
Even Su Chen was a little unsure about this.
If the locust cubs really develop antibodies, they may even have to re-exchange pesticides.
At this moment, Su Chen suddenly had a headache.
"It's really like one wave after another..."
Su Chen shook his head helplessly and rubbed his temples.
After seeing Su Chen's face looking a little unhappy, Liu Mo's heart suddenly jumped.
"Let's go, take me to see what the current situation is like."
Su Chen stood up and said.
Riding on their fast horses, Su Chen and Liu Mo headed to the outskirts of Guancheng.
Looking to the outskirts of Guancheng, there is still a desolate scene, and all the trees look so desolate under the destruction of the locust plague.
However, compared to what Su Chen saw yesterday, the extent of today's locust plague has really decreased a lot.
Obviously, all this is due to pesticides.
"Duke Protector, this is the field."
When they came to the edge of a field, Liu Mo dismounted and led Su Chen the way.
Looking at the locust corpses all over the ground, Su Chen couldn't help but frown.
Although the fields are now full of locust corpses, you can clearly see that many small green locusts are crawling out of the piles of locust corpses. Fortunately, these larvae cannot fly yet.
"Let me ask you, has the number of these larvae increased now compared to when you discovered them?"
Su Chen asked in a deep voice.
Calculating the time, it should be less than three hours since Liu Mo discovered these locust larvae. If a large number of locust larvae hatched during this period, things would become quite difficult.
"This...I don't know, I don't know...it doesn't seem to have increased significantly..." Liu Mo couldn't make up his mind for a while.
"Okay, now is not the time to talk about this. Go back and prepare and have someone come to this area to spray it immediately."
Su Chen turned around and said.
"yes!"
Naturally, Liu Mo had no problem with Su Chen's orders and obeyed them absolutely.
At the same time, Su Chen also asked people to catch some larvae and take them back, preparing to verify some of his guesses.
As soon as he returned to Guancheng, Liu Mo immediately organized the people, and the soldiers quickly rushed to the area where the locust eggs hatched and sprayed pesticides.
As soon as he returned to Guancheng, Su Chen prepared some pesticides and sprayed them on the locust larvae.
After a while, these locust larvae died.
"I see. Since pesticides can also kill these larvae, there is no big problem."
Now, Su Chen had roughly guessed something and seemed to understand why a large number of larvae hatched.
It should be that too many locust corpses accumulate, causing the temperature of the land to rise, and the eggs to hatch in large numbers.
Moreover, since the spraying industry is carried out at an altitude of 800 feet, there is no need to worry too much about these larvae developing resistance to pesticides.
In this case, even if these larvae hatch, don't worry too much, you only need to spray pesticides again.
However, these hatched locusts also sounded a warning to Su Chen.
If the spraying cannot be carried out in time, the locust plague will rage again.
After Liu Mo came back, Su Chen immediately called him over and told him to spray pesticides as soon as he found a large number of locusts hatching in that area.
At this time, Liu Mo, the governor of Guanzhou, had completely turned into a tool man, and his daily workload doubled.
However, because he wanted to leave a good impression on Su Chen, Liu Mo not only didn't feel it, but also worked harder to organize the people to kill the locusts.
"What should we do? These eggs are hidden deep in the ground. It's winter now and the climate is so cold that they can't be killed by the sun..."
Now, Su Chen was having some difficulties as to how to deal with the locust eggs buried underground.
If the insect egg problem can be solved in time, then the time of this insecticide plan may be increased by at least half!
This is not a good thing for Datang today.
If it is normal, in this case, you only need to turn over the land and expose the eggs to the sun for a day or two.
But, where does the sun come from in winter right now?
"Is it possible that we can only use pesticides for direct irrigation?"
Standing in front of the window, Su Chen looked unusually solemn.
Nowadays, high-altitude pesticide spraying is considered a mild method. If pesticides are irrigated directly, those fields will really be ruined. They will not recover at all in less than ten years!
Moreover, the pesticides used for irrigation need to be undiluted!
The exchange price for this thing is extremely expensive!
If he really exchanged so many pesticides, even Su Chen would probably have to go back to before liberation in an instant!
"It's really...even spending money is a problem now..."
"It seems that now we can only be more ruthless..."
At the end of the day, Su Chen decided to do something direct.
Since you can't spend money now, and you don't dare to directly irrigate undiluted pesticides, you can only set fire to it!
In this way, even the corpses of desert locusts have a solution.
Because they contain toxins, desert locusts cannot be eaten at all, and even their use as medicine is a problem.
In fact, from the beginning, Su Chen wanted to use this method to deal with the locust plague.
However, although the locust plague is serious now, they still protect a lot of food in people's farmland.
If it is really set on fire, then it must be burned completely, even the land where food is grown will not be spared!
