taps rubber from 2 to 6 o'clock every day, eats breakfast at 7 o'clock, collects glue from 8 o'clock to 12 o'clock, and taps rubber for about 8-10 months each year. This is the annual working time of a rubber tapper.
Rubber forest is often far away from residential area , while rubber trees are planted on slopes of 15 to 35 degrees (some woodlands have slopes of more than 35 degrees). Rubber tapping, rubber harvesting, rubber picking, and pipe protection are all manual work. For work, rubber tappers generally choose to go up the mountain to tap rubber at 2:00 am every day. In the wild environment at night, the rubber tappers are often attacked by animals such as mountain locusts, vipers, scorpions, centipedes and raptors. The rubber tappers at work, according to statistics. In 2014 alone, more than 70 rubber workers were bitten by a poisonous snake . The author recently participated in a rubber production technology training, and communicated with rubber tapping teachers and growers about the accident of rubber forest work being bitten by insects. The rubber tapping teacher shared a simple, efficient, and cheap one-time method for cleaning and trapping centipedes in rubber forests. .
Why choose early morning rubber tapping?
Natural rubber is a glue collected from rubber trees. The rubber tree is native to Brazil in South America and is called the Brazilian Hevea tree. It grows in the tropics and subtropics. It must be irradiated by sunlight throughout the day and through the chlorophyll photosynthesis, in order to cause the chemical reaction of various elements in the vessel in the stem to produce a rubber liquid composed of rubber hydrocarbons as the main component (referred to as rubber liquid). Therefore, there is not much glue in the rubber tree during the day, and it is hard to say tapping. has a maximum content of 90% of rubber hydrocarbons in the rubber fluid and a minimum of 35%. Others include protein, resin, moisture, ash, etc., so the glue is white, and it is sticky to the touch. At two or three o'clock in the morning the next day, the glue that is slowly generated in the catheter will be full, so relying on "internal pressure", the glue will be squeezed out drop by drop along the spiral cut under the tree. , And flow into the plastic bowl below. When the glue in the bowl was almost full, the rubber worker took out the glue bucket and collected it. The glue in the tree slowly flowed out until the east showed the color of fish maw. The sun came out and the glue ran out.
Centipede Biology
Centipede (Centipede) Flat arthropod carnivores, each section has a pair of legs, originated from the Silurian period (Silurian), there are still two thousand eight hundred species alive. Like arthropods, it is famous for multi-arthropods. It is flat and long, 9-17 cm long and 0.5-1 cm wide. The whole is composed of 22 sections, and the last section is slightly smaller. The two sections of the head are dark red, each with a pair of antennae and a poison hook; the back is brownish-green or dark green, shiny, and has 2 longitudinal ribs; the abdomen is pale yellow or brownish yellow, shrunken; each body from the second section The knots have 1 pair of feet, born on both sides, yellow or reddish-brown, curved into a hook shape. It is brittle, with cracks in the section. Slightly fishy, pungent smell, pungent and slightly salty. The quality is best if the body is dry, the body is long and complete, and the head is red and green. Centipede is a commonly used medicinal material, with warm nature, pungent taste and poisonous. It has the functions of dispelling wind, relieving spasm, fighting poison and dispelling masses, dredging collaterals and relieving pain. Used for convulsions, convulsions and convulsions in children, apoplexy, oblique mouth and eyes, hemiplegia, tetanus, rheumatism, sores, scrofula, and snake bites.
A simple, efficient and cheap method for clearing and trapping centipedes in rubber forests
Dig a 30cm diameter and 20-30cm deep soil pit in the rubber forest, and fill the pit with 3~4 dustpan (bò ji) chicken manure, chicken The thickness of the dung is about 10~15cm. Then mix some small gravel, etc. The top of the pit is covered with branches, leaves and grass residue. After 3 to 4 days, the centipede in the rubber forest will be attracted to the pit to roost and forage. Will run away, at this time you can use bamboo tongs and other traps into the bag.
Precautions for capturing centipedes
Centipede has a pair of venomous palates on both sides of its head. Try to avoid being bitten when capturing. When capturing, use a nail rake or bamboo chip to gently press the centipede body, and then use the index finger to accurately press the head to force the poison palate to open without closing it, and then use the thumb and the middle finger to pinch the head to capture and put it in the basket . Or use a bamboo clip to clip it into the basket or bottle, and move quickly. Someone broke off the venom palate of the captured centipede, although this can avoid biting,However, the centipede with the poisonous palate is affected, and the quality is reduced. Other methods of trapping centipedes on
In a dark and humid place where centipedes often enter and exit, dig a pit with some chicken intestines, chicken bones and other debris as bait, and cover it with broken bricks, broken tiles and rotten grass, etc. . A few days later, when there is a special smell in the pit, the cover can be lifted every morning to capture the centipedes who are coming for a dinner together.
can be captured on mountain slopes, ground slopes, graves, loess hills, no matter what direction, as long as it is a shady, humid place without stagnant water. Before and after the Ching Ming Festival, use small spades to dig horizontal trenches in these places. The entrance is 9 cm high, the mouth width is 12 cm, and the depth is 15 cm. The line is aligned from the mouth to the bottom of the end. If you want to find a safe and comfortable place to hide), after digging the nest, cut a piece of grass residue that can cover the mouth of the mouth to cover the mouth, as long as the nest does not penetrate the sun. At the same time, remove the grass roots, insects and coarse soil in the nest. At 5-6 o'clock every morning, open the grass residue to see if there are centipedes inside.
Kill 1~2 chickens (the number of chickens to be killed should be flexibly controlled according to the number and size of the trap site), and the hair, meat, bone, blood and internal organs are mixed and boiled in a pot. After being boiled, mix the mixture with the rice bran, and the humidity should be enough to squeeze out the water in your hand and throw it on the ground to withdraw. After the bait is made, find a place in the mountain valley where gravel and leaves are mixed, and cut a long groove about 8 cm deep with a flat bottom. Then, spread bait in the ditch, about 7 cm thick, and cover it with branches, leaves and grass residue. A few days later, a lot of centipedes will gather at the bait site, and then they can be caught.
