Agriculture Idol

Chapter 214 Caterpillar
After everyone finished shooting, the stylist helped to bathe and dry the wet melon skin, which actually exceeded the normal off-duty time of the photography studio.Li Chengxin bought some late-night snacks for everyone, and then led Guapi and a few other dogs out of the back door of the photography studio, and his assistant drove them back to Qi Lanting's mansion.

Fortunately, Qi Lanting notified Auntie Cooking to bring some ingredients, so that Li Chengxin would not fall into the situation of cooking without rice again.

The next day, Li Chengxin took the dogs to Geyue Entertainment Building.

Li Chengxin, who is leading a group of dogs, is very eye-catching no matter where he goes. He has brought Guapi to Geyue Entertainment several times before, but it is the first time so many dogs appear together.

In case someone was more afraid of dogs, Li Chengxin greeted the front desk in a hurry, then took the dogs into an empty elevator and went straight to the top floor.By this time, there probably weren't many employees who didn't know Li Chengxin, and he didn't need to struggle too long about entering the door.

Although the live broadcasts of the flower beds and heart ponds on the top floor are not open, they still need someone to maintain them on a daily basis. Unfortunately, this task has been handed over to the staff of the live broadcast planning team on the top floor, and Ma Bo is one of them.

When Li Chengxin came up with the dogs, Ma Bo was carefully cleaning up the leaves floating in the heart pool. Although rotten leaves can bring sufficient nutrients to the water body, if too many fallen leaves are involved in the water circulation system driven by the windmill, There will always be unnecessary damage.

Seeing Li Chengxin suddenly, Ma Bo asked in confusion, "Are there any live broadcast arrangements today?"

Li Chengxin patted Guapi's dog's head and said with a smile: "I came to the company today to sign Guapi and them, and now I just want to find a place for them to run around."

"Wow, Guapi is about to sign a contract? This is really a one-man success." Ma Bo was not without envy.

Li Chengxin smiled and said, "Aren't there few scenes of you appearing in the live broadcast?"

This is true. According to the statistics of netizens, Ma Bo actually had more live shows on the top floor than Li Chengxin.Due to Ma Bo's professionalism, he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the live program group. Basically, he would help out every time the live program was broadcast, and became a fixed team for the live broadcast on the top floor, but the protagonist of each live program was uncertain.

Li Chengxin threw the dogs on the floating platform on the top floor to let them run by themselves, and began to inspect the field by himself. When he and Professor Pan came up to look at the strawberries, they didn't have time to take a closer look at what plants were added.

Besides the weeds, a small tree was planted next to the heart pool. Except for a few leaves blown by the wind, most of the fallen leaves in the heart pool were leaves from this tree.

Li Chengxin went over to identify it. Without using the system, he could tell by the aroma wafting from the leaves: "Is this a lemon tree?"

Ma Bo nodded: "Professor Pan gave it, saying that it can create shade for the heart pool."

Li Chengxin looked under the tree. The way the tree was planted was also very interesting. It seemed that they dug a hole in the foam at the base of the pool and planted the lemon tree in it.

Ma Bo pointed to a leaf and said, "Zicheng, have you noticed this?"

Li Chengxin took a closer look, and what Ma Bo was pointing at was a dark brown thing in the middle of the leaves, mixed with some light blue. If he didn't look carefully, he thought it was a lump of bird droppings.

But after taking a closer look, Li Chengxin recognized it immediately: "Insect?"

Ma Bo nodded and said: "Specifically, it's the larvae of the Citrus Papilion butterfly."

Viewed from the side, the worm's belly was light green, and there was a black-brown bump on its back. At first glance, it looked like bird droppings.

Mabo explained: "The larvae of the swallowtail butterfly will mimic bird droppings to avoid bird attacks."

Li Chengxin observed the lemon tree again, and found a fat caterpillar on another branch: "I remember that lemon trees are especially good at growing worms."

Ma Bo gently grabbed the caterpillar and put it in his hand: "The bird droppings just now are the first instar larvae of the swallowtail butterfly larvae, and this is the second stage."

Li Chengxin touched the caterpillar, the pink and soft touch was exactly the same as he remembered when he was a student.

Compared with the guano larva before, this caterpillar is green and fat. It looks very harmless, and the "big eyes" on both sides are also very cute.

The citrus swallowtail butterfly can produce a hundred eggs at a time, but because it will be attacked by natural enemies such as birds and wasps, on average, only two eggs can safely become caterpillars.

Therefore, in order to protect themselves, citrus swallowtail larvae have various defense methods.Compared with the first-stage larvae mimicking birds, caterpillars are actually mimicking snakes.

Although Li Chengxin saw that the fat caterpillar had nothing in common with a snake, in the eyes of birds, the shape of the eye dots on the caterpillar's body was very similar to that of a snake.The real eyes of caterpillars are actually on the front segment, just above the mouth.

In order to increase the diversity of species on the top floor, the employees of the live broadcast team would let the bugs grow by themselves. After Li Chengxin played with the caterpillar, Ma Bo grabbed the caterpillar and put it back on the lemon tree.

When he put down the caterpillar, suddenly a Y-shaped orange thing protruded from the caterpillar's head.

"Hey! Isn't this the green caterpillar of Pokémon?" Li Chengxin laughed.

"These are the tentacles of caterpillars, and they will stick out when they feel threatened by the enemy." Ma Bo said, then took off his gloves, pointed to the part of the finger that caught the caterpillar just now, and said to Li Chengxin, "Smell and see. "

Li Chengxin took the glove and smelled it: "It smells really good, it has a sweet and sour taste like jam."

Ma Bo nodded and said: "This is actually the caterpillar spraying bird repellent in its body fluids on its natural enemies, but it seems to have no effect on humans at all."

The reason why the citrus swallowtail is called the citrus swallowtail is that it only lays eggs on citrus plants.The larvae of the citrus swallowtail butterfly will ingest the terpene essential oils in citrus plants and use them, which is the raw material of the "bird repellant".

Marbo pointed to the caterpillar that returned to the lemon tree to munch on the leaves and continued: "This caterpillar will start cocooning in about a week."

Li Chengxin looked around: "Just in time, there are flowers in the flower bed, and the hatched citrus swallowtail butterflies will also have food."

There are a few bushes of plants in the flower bed that Li Chengxin pointed to, with white flowers in bloom. Li Chengxin leaned over to take a look: "Huh? When did you grow buckwheat?"

Ma Bo looked at it and replied: "It seems that the seeds were sown by Han Long when he came one time. He said he wanted to eat buckwheat noodles to lose weight."

Li Chengxin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's just a few clumps of buckwheat, probably half a bowl of noodles at most."

He looked at the clusters of buckwheat flowers: "Wow, there are bees!"

A long time ago, Li Chengxin asked Professor Pan whether bees could fly to a height of 200 meters. At that time, Professor Pan couldn't answer clearly. Now the answer is in front of Li Chengxin.

Ma Bo thought: "If this citrus swallowtail continues to lay eggs on that lemon tree, maybe more citrus swallowtails will grow. In this way, the owl that likes to eat citrus swallowtails may also be able to grow." drawn in."

Sitting side by side, Li Chengxin and Ma Bo looked forward to the prospect of the top floor project. After looking at it for a while, Li Chengxin picked up a bunch of buckwheat flowers and said, "This buckwheat has already seeded!"

(End of this chapter)