Into Unscientific

  Chapter 55 Big Mantis, it’s time to drink the medicine

  Considering the occasional problem of the experiment, Xu Yun and others used six culture containers for the first experiment, a total of more than 500 cockroaches, densely packed, and a large area of ​​black lacquer.

  Looking at the cockroaches covering the inner wall of the culture container, Xu Yun suddenly had a dreamy picture in his mind:

  An invisible deep pit with tens of thousands of cockroaches living inside. A person lost his center of gravity and fell from the outside, and was then submerged by the cockroaches.

  噫.

  Xu Yun quickly dismissed the screen and returned his thoughts to the console.

  Imidacloprid is a biological poison that acts on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Its operating principle is mainly to interfere with the motor nervous system of pests and cause chemical signal transmission to fail, thereby killing the target from a physiological perspective.

   As for its propagation principle, there are two kinds.

  One is to attract cockroaches by using physically mixed glue bait. The chemical perception range of cockroaches is a full two hundred meters, so many cockroaches will come to eat poison after smelling it.

  However, only a small number of cockroaches can be attracted by this situation. The real insecticidal effect of imidacloprid lies in the second category.

   That is.

   Cockroach cannibalism.

  Yes, cockroaches will eat the corpses of the same kind.

  Live cockroaches like to eat dead cockroach corpses and excrement, so when walking on the road, you can occasionally see some cockroach corpses with their tails or heads hollowed out, which are the remains left by cannibalism.

  The spread of imidacloprid relies on this habit, but the number of generations that imidacloprid can act on generally does not exceed three generations, and dead cockroaches do not carry pheromones, so the effect of attracting similar species is limited.

  At present, the best imidacloprid glue bait for civilian use in China is Baimes produced by Bayer. It is expensive but the effect is amazing. A drop of rice grain-sized glue bait can kill about 60 cockroaches continuously, and the number of generations is between 2 and 2.5 generations.

   In addition to this, the well-known Tibetan fox teacher Xiaoliang once shared a recipe, which is boric acid powder + sugar + mashed potatoes.

  The ratio of boric acid powder and sugar is 1 to 1, and the amount of potatoes is suitable for kneading. Put a little in each corner and it is ready.

  The main thing that works is boric acid powder, cockroaches eat it to make them dehydrated to death, sugar is to attract cockroaches, and potatoes are to knead into balls.

  The effect of this formula is still good. You can basically see relevant comments below the boric acid merchants on Taobao. By the way, there is nothing to talk about the water monkey.

  The line of sight returns to the laboratory.

  Baimeshi is basically the ceiling of the current broad-spectrum cockroach killer. There are some that can exceed its effect, but it is difficult to achieve mass production.

However, the amount of cockroaches that can be killed by ordinary doses of baimishi seems to be a lot, but it is the same for the prevention and control of large areas. It is ok to kill a small room of 30 square meters, but the large house of more than 100 square meters depends on the amount of money. Go fight.

   Therefore, Xu Yun's goal is obviously not as simple as just being at the same level as it.

  After everything was ready, Xu Yun picked up the dropper and squeezed a fourth-generation imidacloprid glue bait on each of the three small plates.

  The other three small plates were filled with Baimeshi, Miecockling produced by Neon Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, and KTTU insecticide produced by Maple Leaf Country, as a control.

  The gel bait is about the size of a grain of rice, translucent, and looks a bit like Voltaren cream.

  The biological container for the fourth-generation imidacloprid glue bait is No. 1-3, and the latter three are No. 4-6.

   Then Xu Yun and others put the small dish into the bottom of the container through the lifting equipment of the container, and turned on the camera to observe the effect.

  Xu Yun first observed the biological container of Note 2, which was a 45X30X20 cuboid with some drinking water inside.

The cockroaches brought back from He Jiajia were very lively, and they kept crawling on the bottom and the walls of the container. You could clearly see the leg hairs and slightly open and closed wings of the Periplaneta americana, as if there would be a cockroach without the container blocking it. Come and ride a flying dragon on your face.

  When the small dish with the glue bait touched the bottom of the container, it vibrated slightly. The cockroaches in the container were flustered for a while, but after more than ten seconds, the cockroaches gradually returned to normal.

   Another dozen seconds passed.

  The chemical hybrid pheromone in the fourth-generation imidacloprid began to drift away, gradually attracting three or four cockroaches, and soon began to eat the glue bait.

   At the same time, the cockroaches in containers No. 4-6 remained unmoved, only a few cockroaches took a few tentative steps forward.

  In the No. 2 container, several cockroaches that had eaten the glue bait retreated one after another, and then a group of new members came up.

   This situation lasted for three full rounds. On the 4th, it was placed in the container with the dead man, and just now the cockroach began to take its first bite.

It is clear.

   also contains pheromone components, but the effects of chemical synthesis and physical mixing are quite different.

   After a few more minutes, the cockroaches in box No. 6 officially gathered around the glue bait.

   Seeing this, Xu Yun looked at Zhou Peiyao and asked:

   "Xiao Zhou, how long has it been?"

   "The official launch took 26 minutes and 36 seconds. Box No. 1 took four rounds, box No. 2 took five rounds, box No. 3 took four rounds, box No. 4 took two rounds, and boxes No. 5 and No. 6 took one round."

  Xu Yun nodded, and was about to encourage Zhou Peiyao, when Ren Yongcun suddenly said excitedly:

   "Senior, look at box No. 2, this cockroach has reacted!"

  Xu Yun hurried forward and followed Ren Yongcun's direction.

  It was a Periplaneta americana about four centimeters long. At this time, the cockroach was leaning against the wall of the container, its tentacles were spinning rapidly, and its wings were spread to the maximum extent, looking very excited.

   Another 20 minutes later, the American cockroach couldn't even stand on the wall of the container. It lost its strength on its supporting legs, and fell on its back to the bottom of the container.

  Although it turned over quickly, judging from the speed at which it climbed up, it was obvious that there was something wrong with its motor nerves.

as predicted.

  After a lot of variety, the big beetle suddenly turned over, and its 6 legs danced feebly in the air.

   More critically.

  Due to a problem with the motor nerve, the binding protein in the cyclic pheromone that has penetrated into the bone marrow began to react with the pheromone receptor on the surface of the olfactory sensory neuron, the tissue expression began to be disordered, and a large amount of pheromone began to spread.

  In the next 20 minutes, a large number of male cockroaches gradually gathered around the female Periplaneta americana, which seemed to be extremely sexually aroused and exuberant.

  However, due to the special circumstances of some first-generation bodies, many male cockroaches did not start multiplayer sports.

  The female Periplaneta americana completely lost signs of life amidst countless onlookers of the same kind, and then...

  The male cockroaches brutally gnawed on its head.

Note:

  The operation in the next chapter will be very exciting, it should be.

   Please ask for some monthly tickets during the double monthly ticket period. I can also draw a lottery next month if I reach 2,000 tickets.

   I’m in a hurry these days, so the update time cannot be guaranteed. I can only code every morning.

   Every time I put a new book on the shelves, something happens. It’s almost metaphysics. I was worried about whether my grandma would have some sequelae due to the fall of the new book, but I didn’t expect that it was the teacher who had the accident. Hey, there are mixed feelings.

   Yesterday’s order change dropped 300 follow-ups, which is about the same as I expected. This is undoubtedly a fatal blow to the books that are about to go on the shelves, but there is no way, not everything in life goes well.

   There are still more than 40 hours to go on the shelves, I hope to have more friends to accompany me to continue walking.

  (end of this chapter)