when I was a child, I didn't know the season at all. The time to find a cicada depends mainly on listening. On the way to school or school, if you hear a faint cicada singing, you should go home and prepare tools and act immediately. The original tool was relatively simple, that is, a flashlight. Wait until after dinner, and wander around where there are trees outside the village. Especially willow, elm, poplar and other varieties of trees, it is absolutely not allowed to fall, all have to turn around or several times.
It's not completely dark. At this time, the cicada monkey hasn't climbed out of the hole, so we need to find the small hole that the cicada monkey dug on the ground. This depends on the eyesight. The hole dug by the cicada will be very small at first, as small as a grain of rice. Bend over and observe carefully. If you find a small hole, you should dig it. Of course, not all small holes are monkeys' holes. There are holes for ants, or holes for other bugs. If you dig the hole of the cicada, it will suddenly become bigger, and then you will find that the cicada is curled up very close to the hole. At this time, hurry to the side to find a dog's tail grass, fold it from the middle, reach into the hole, and let the cicada catch it. When it catches the grass with its front paws, you can lift it.
if you look for it, it will be dark. At this time, a flashlight is needed. After the monkey climbs out of the hole, it will instinctively climb to the nearby tree. Turn on the flashlight and shine from the root of the tree to the top of the trunk. If you find a cicada, just take it off. Some monkeys will climb high, while others will hide behind leaves. After the cicada climbs to the position, it will change. The newly metamorphosed cicada will hang upside down on the cicada slough, with golden yellow body and a little tender green wings, and it has not yet formed. When the wings become hard, the cicada will turn grayish brown, and then it can fly.
This is a traditional way to find cicadas. It takes time, and we have to wait until dark. Later, the friends adopted a more direct and quick method-digging with a shovel. After school, you don't need to eat, just grab a shovel and run outside. At that time, there were two rows of poplars planted on the roadside at the south end of the village, and that was our destination. Run under the poplar, find any tree and start digging with a spade. Digging is also skillful, not to dig deep, but to stick to the surface of the ground and remove a layer of soil above it. When a spade goes down, if a round hole the thickness of thumb suddenly appears on the ground, it must be the hole of the cicada. Then dig deep down the hole, and you will find the cicada.
This method does not need to wait until dark, so it is not limited by time, and the success rate is much higher and the efficiency is also improved. But the only drawback is that at that time, we were all young, holding big shovels, and it was inevitable that there might be danger. It was common to bump into each other. Years ago, I had dinner with friends of the same age in the village. Yangyang also pointed to the scar around his eyes and said to Peng Fei, "This is what we left when we found the cicada together, and you did it." Peng Fei laughed: I remember I was carrying a shovel at that time, and you hit it yourself. "Then we laughed at each other, no matter who was right or wrong, I'm afraid this matter will never be forgotten ~
Now, breeding cicadas has become an industry, and there are many on the market. But I've never bought it. Childhood cicadas are like cicadas, leaving only an empty shell. Now the cicada is just like the cicada with hardened wings. Although it is in front of us, it is no longer a cicada. ...