This is My Primitive Tribe Chapter 280: Locust Plague
The flying speed of glutinous rice balls is getting faster and faster. If you look at it from the ground, it looks like a purple somersault cloud whizzing past your head.
Jiang Xuan sat on Tangyuan's back, listening to the "whirring" of the wind in his ears, looking at the scenery passing by below, feeling quite emotional in his heart.
When he picked up glutinous rice balls in the forest, it was the autumn of the second year of the Teng tribe. Now it is the seventh year of the Teng tribe. Five years have passed by in a flash.
The glutinous rice ball has changed from a chubby purple baby bird to a huge and vicious bird with a wingspan of more than fifty meters. The change is really huge.
The most important thing is that he obviously found that the glutinous rice ball continued to grow in size, which meant that after five years, it still had not truly grown up.
Its combat effectiveness is getting stronger and stronger, and its flying speed is not weaker than that of the old witch's giant eagle. It has huge potential.
Jiang Xuan is looking forward to seeing how powerful it will be when it truly enters adulthood and reaches its peak physical strength and combat experience.
The mountains and rivers below kept passing by, and before you knew it, the glutinous rice balls had flown over the forest where the hunting team was.
"Yier..."
Tangyuan gave a sharp chirp, then circled and lowered its altitude, looking for a suitable place to land.
"Chief, look..."
Uncaria sat behind Jiang Xuan and pointed to the forest ahead.
Jiang Xuan has already noticed the abnormality there. In fact, it is difficult not to notice it, because a large area of the forest has become bare, except for branches and trunks, not even green can be seen.
"What a powerful locust!"
Even Jiang Xuan was shocked when he saw such a scene.
This was the first time he had seen a locust plague with his own eyes. In his previous life, he had only seen it in some movies and videos, which was far less shocking than seeing it with his own eyes.
What's more, these locusts are much more powerful than those known in previous lives.
Each adult locust is about the size of a fist. When they eat the leaves of a tree and spread their wings to fly, they become a large black mass. The vibration of their wings alone is scary enough.
Jiang Xuan has some understanding of the reproductive and evolutionary abilities of locusts. He also knows that once a locust plague occurs, if it cannot be effectively contained, it will expand rapidly and cause harm to a very wide area, or even several areas.
"Tangyuan, don't land yet, go to the front and have a look."
Under Jiang Xuan's instructions, the glutinous rice balls clung to the sky above the forest and continued to fly forward. The strong wind caused by flapping their wings blew away many locusts on the treetops.
Tang Yuan carried Jiang Xuan and Uncaria and flew around in the forest ahead. The more he saw, the more frightened Jiang Xuan became, because these locusts had already eaten up a large area of the forest, and they were still going on.
Spreading around.
If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before these locusts fly to where the Vine Tribe is.
"We can't let them continue to reproduce like this. We must find ways to stop them."
But how to deal with these overwhelming locusts? Jiang Xuan feels very tricky.
Places like Southern Wilderness are actually not a suitable habitat for locusts at all.
Locusts like to lay eggs in places with low vegetation coverage or even bare areas. It is difficult for them to breed in places like the Southern Wilderness where primeval forests are common.
In previous years, Jiang Xuan had never seen a locust plague at all, and he had never even heard of a locust plague in the Southern Wilderness.
Therefore, Jiang Xuan guessed that these locusts should have come from the Western Wilderness, or from places close to the Western Wilderness.
Locust plagues are easiest to extinguish when they are small in the early stages, but when the scale of locusts reaches a certain level, it becomes difficult to eliminate them.
Even in the era of advanced technology in the previous life, dealing with locust plagues was not an easy task.
What's more, in the primitive era Jiang Xuan lives in now, he can't even find a bottle of the simplest insecticide.
But no matter what, with the terrifying eating speed of these locusts, it won't be long before they cause harm to the Vine Tribe.
Due to the drought this year, the grain output of the Vine Tribe has been greatly affected, but Jiang Xuan does not want to have no harvest by then.
How to control these locusts without pesticides?
The first thing Jiang Xuan thought of was ducks, because in his previous life, he often heard about using ducks to control locusts.
The Teng tribe has now domesticated a large number of wild ducks. If these ducks can be driven over, they should be able to eat a lot of locusts.
But the scale of the locusts is really too big right now. How many ducks can be eaten by the thousands of ducks domesticated by the Vine tribe alone, even if they are open to eating?
In addition to ducks, birds such as colorful pheasants, horned birds, and raptors will also eat locusts, but they eat locusts more slowly and do not eat as much as ducks.
"The Point Guard Is Here"
In addition to ducks and these birds, can you think of some other ways?
Just as Jiang Xuan was thinking about it, the glutinous rice balls had already flown around, returned to where the hunting team was, and found a spacious place to land.
"Chief, those bugs are too scary."
"Chief, all the animals in the forest have escaped."
"Chief, what should we do?"
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After landing, the members of the hunting team gathered around and asked Jiang Xuan all over the place, hoping that the leader could give him an idea.
It was the first time for the soldiers of the hunting team to see a locust plague. The overwhelming number of insects and the bare forest made them very panicked.
The locust plague affects not only plants, but also a large number of herbivores that depend on plants.
Locusts have eaten away all the green plants, and herbivores have also lost their food sources, and they can only be forced to migrate to places where they are not harmed by locusts.
Once the herbivores run away, those large carnivores can only follow.
Therefore, the place where locusts pass through is often a desolate and dilapidated scene, with only a small number of locust-eating birds staying briefly.
The hunting team, which makes a living by hunting, is naturally very anxious when faced with the possibility that there will be no hunting in the future.
"Shut up!"
At the critical moment, Uncaria stood up and roared, calming the soldiers.
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After everyone calmed down, Jiang Xuan said: "We have dealt with even more difficult and vicious opponents, are we still afraid of these bugs?"
"Don't panic, everyone. Trust me and the tribe. We will definitely find a way to get rid of these bugs and prevent them from continuing to harm more forests!"
Jiang Xuan was very important in the hearts of these warriors, and his words finally made these restless warriors feel a little more at ease.
Undo asked: "Chief, what should we do next?"
According to the previous order, the hunting team was originally here to clear the obstacles ahead and provide safe development space for the planting team, breeding team and other teams behind.
But now that there is a locust plague, the hunting team must get rid of these locusts first, otherwise the following teams will not be able to carry out their work at all.
Jiang Xuan thought for a while and said: "First drive over the ducks, colorful pheasants, unicorns and other things that have been domesticated by the breeding team. Your hunting team will be responsible for protecting the breeding team."
"Yes!"
With the new mission, Undo felt a lot more at ease.
Anyway, he just follows Jiang Xuan's orders. As for whether those ducks and birds will have any effect after they come over, that's not something he should worry about.
"Everyone return to the tribe immediately!"
Undo gave an order, and the warriors of the hunting team mounted their mounts one after another, then turned around and headed towards the tribe.
Jiang Xuan also sat on glutinous rice balls and returned, but his heart was far from as peaceful as he showed.
Because he knows very well that the breeding team alone cannot control this locust plague, and he must come up with more effective methods.
Besides ducks and birds, what else can deal with these locusts? Jiang Xuan looked at the forest passing by below and fell into deep thought.