Magpie is a lucky bird among the old rural population, which is of great benefit. However, in recent years, farmers regard magpies as a nuisance and hope to destroy them.
What changed people's views on magpies that used to be beneficial birds? Is the magpie really bad? Let's listen to the opinions of farmers.
One of the charges: farmer A pointed to the peanut field with serious seedling shortage in front of him and said, "I am an old-school farmer, but in recent years, there has always been a serious seedling shortage in planting crops, which is all caused by magpies." They always beg for seeds in the field after I plant crops, so you see, this peanut has to lose a quarter, right? ! "
Magpies are smarter than three-year-olds They will eat the sown seeds out of the soil with their mouths, causing certain losses to farmers. It is a lie to say that you don't hate them.
The second charge: Fruit grower B squatted in the watermelon field and stared blankly at the declining watermelon in the field and said, "These bastards caught a delicious one when they ate watermelon. Today they will peck this one and tomorrow they will peck that one. You see, many watermelons in the field have been cracked by them and become rotten melons, with serious losses! "
Magpie is a bird that likes to eat fruit now. As soon as the watermelons planted by melon farmers are ripe, they fight with them. When the farmers left, they quickly picked watermelons to eat. If the picked watermelon is not sweet or not, they must choose another one. Melon farmers are miserable.
Third charge: Fruit grower C leans in the cherry orchard every day and picks ripe cherries as soon as possible. She said, "I have to compete with magpies for cherries, or they will eat one when they are ripe." If they don't eat quickly, they will eat a lot of cherries. "
Magpies like fruits, which is recognized by farmers. The redder cherries and apples are, the better they taste. Magpies specially choose red fruits to eat, and the good fruits that fruit farmers are reluctant to eat are basically destroyed by magpies, so many fruit farmers eat the rest of magpies.
So what makes these beneficial birds, which used to help farmers catch pests, now become the most annoying birds for farmers? Let's continue to analyze.
Nowadays, farmers can farm without planting grass. They used herbicides from the beginning, and later, as soon as there were pests and diseases on crops, they quickly sprayed pesticides, so there were few pests on crops. Magpies have to change their living habits in order to survive, so their eyes are fixed on the crops directly.
Magpies have tasted the sweetness, thinking that stealing crops is much easier than catching bugs, and they are even more reluctant to catch bugs. Instead, they change their living habits and steal farmers' fruits. In addition to stealing crop seeds and fruits, they also steal chickens raised by farmers. They are also carnivores.
Nowadays, farmers have come up with all kinds of tricks to prevent magpies, such as playing music, kicking two feet, pulling nets, pulling colored ropes and so on. For this kind of "thief" who can't be beaten but can only be prevented, farmers are very helpless. They can do nothing but hate and disgust.