When will there be termites?
In summer and autumn, it grows singly or in groups on the ground along mountains, grassy slopes, fields or forests, and its roots are connected with underground black-winged soil termite nests. It only happens in August and September every year. The peak period is around the Dragon Boat Festival every year in Yongzhou, Hunan 15 days. A large number of wild termites are born, mainly growing in the red soil hills and mountains of the park, and do not grow at other times except the Dragon Boat Festival.
Chicken? (Z not zōng) is also called Agaricus bisporus (Yunnan and Sichuan), shredded chicken mushroom (Taiwan Province and Fujian), fighting chicken mushroom, termite mushroom, termite umbrella and yellow chicken. ? (Fujian and Guangdong). The fruiting body is medium to large. The cap is 3-23.5cm wide. When I was young, it was conical to bell-shaped and gradually extended. The top is obviously convex and hat-shaped, grayish brown or brown to light khaki, which cracks radially after the elders, and sometimes the edges turn up. Mushroom meat is white and thick. The fungus folds white to milky white, turns yellow after aging, bends or is nearly free, dense, narrow, unequal in length and wavy in edge. The stalk is thick, 3-15cm long, 0.7-2.4cm thick, white or covered with the same color, solid inside, swollen at the base, with brown to dark brown slender rhizome, up to 40cm long.
Where does the termitomycetes grow?
Termitomycetes are common on the ground, wasteland, graves and cornfields in coniferous and broad-leaved forests, and their basal stalks are connected with termites' nests. They were scattered to the colonies. In summer, when the temperature is high and the humidity is high, white cocci first grow on termite nests, and then chicken fruiting bodies are formed.
1. Termites and their symbiotic life. Under natural conditions, termites are symbiotic with termites, and termites symbiotic with termites are some species of Macroterminae. Common terrestrial termites are black-winged soil termites, Yunnan black-winged soil termites, Barney termites and so on.
(1) Termites are nesting termites.
(2) Termites obtain various nutrients and disease-resistant substances from white balls of termites.
(3) Termitomycetes obtain nutrients from termite nests and their surroundings.
2. Ant nest is an ideal ecological environment for termites and termites to coexist. Ant nests are mostly built at the depth of 20- 100 cm underground, and the volume varies from 0. 1- 1.0 cubic meters. There are large central nests and scattered satellite nests, which are connected with each other through ant channels. Ant colony will breed in the nest for years to decades, and the number of termites in an ant colony can reach 1 000,000-2×10,000,000 (He Xinsheng, 1995).
(1) There are stable ecological conditions in the ant nest, which are suitable to coexist with termites and termites.
① Temperature and humidity are stable.
② The pH value is low and stable.
③ The concentration of carbon dioxide is high.
(2) The rainy season is a favorable condition for termitomycetes to form fruiting bodies. Only when the rainy season comes every year, the rainwater penetrates into the soil around the ant nest, which is beneficial to the growth of the mycelium of the termites. (Chen Chu)
3. Biological groups in ant nests. There are many microbial populations in termite nests. Besides termites, there are more than ten kinds of bacteria, Penicillium and Aspergillus.
III. Reserve and Nutrition
Yunnan is the producing area of termitomycetes in China, with an annual output of more than 2,000 tons. It can be seen that the storage of termites in China is very huge.
Efficacy and function of termitomycetes
1. termitomycetes can strengthen the spleen and stomach, greatly increasing appetite.
2. Termitomyces gallinarum contains nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and protein, and is a delicious food for the infirm and the elderly.
3. Another characteristic of termitomycetes is its high phosphorus content, which is delicious for people who need to supplement phosphorus.
4. Eating termitomycetes regularly can also improve human immunity, resist cancer cells and lower blood sugar.
5. termitomycetes has the function of nourishing blood and moistening dryness, and is also suitable for women.