elephant trunk

There is a big village next to the seventh team of the farm. My mother-in-law lived there, and my sister-in-law also studied there, so I couldn't do without playing there.

I was about five or six years old, and I was like a monkey, climbing up and down those tall trees all day long. Picking fruits, digging out bird's nests, catching insects, never tired of it.

At that time, there was a very beautiful flying insect on the tree, the size of a thumb, with a yellow-yellow-green body and a long nose on the head. The head and nose were red, and the feet were also red. I really like to catch this kind of flying insects to play.

But this bug can fly and is hard to catch. Every time I see it, I will approach it carefully, and every time I catch it, I will do whatever it takes, as if I have found a treasure.

I recently wrote "The Story of My Father's Childhood" and when I mentioned Dongwo Village, I couldn't help but think of this beautiful bug. Since I left Dongwo Village, I haven't seen this bug for decades, and I don't even know the name of this bug. After thinking about it continuously, I searched on Baidu with the word "weevil".

The self-confessed weevil is really called longan chicken, also known as wax cicada. I didn't expect such a beautiful insect to be a pest. That long and beautiful nose is not a nose, but its mouth. This beautiful mouth is designed to suck the juice of fruit trees, because it has a special liking for longan trees, and It can jump and fly, so it is called longan chicken.

What surprised me even more is that this guy is still blindly gourmet. It was introduced on Baidu. When cooked, it is as delicious as bee pupae and grass insects, and the price is not cheap. About 50 pieces are less than two taels, and a dish costs three to four hundred yuan in restaurants .

If I had known this, I would not have spent so much effort to catch it with my hands carefully. I would knock down a branch and skewer it together for barbecue. Wow, I regret it-I missed such a delicious food!

Note: The pictures in the text are all from Baidu