Blackberries are in season now.
Thriving blackberries are a survival battleground.
The area is crowded with insects that come to eat the sweet and sour blackberries and predators (spiders, bees, frogs, and snakes) that eat the insects.
The garden is very crowded with insects and predators (spiders, bees, frogs, and snakes).
Knowing such a situation, I started piling up blackberries and was attacked by predators.
Creatures I was attacked by (foot-long bees, rhabdopis tigrinus snake)
Today I was stung in two places on the head by a foot-long bee and my head is bobbing.
I get stung every year and my response is
(1) I always keep antihistamine for allergies (rhinitis medicine) in my car, so I take it immediately.
(2) Suck up the bee venom with a suction set. (It doesn’t work very well.)
(3) Wash off with water. (Today, I’ll shower the bee venom off my head.)
(4) Cool it down with ice and rest for an hour.
The above is usually all it takes to get back to work.
When I was a kid, I used to get stung by all kinds of bees and I used to piss on them or apply miso. I don’t know what the effect was, but it always healed naturally.
Last year, I was picking blackberries close to the ground and was bitten by a rhabdopis tigrinus snake.
When I was a child, I was told that it was not a poisonous snake, so I used to bite it with a wooden stick and pull it back, and the snake’s teeth would come out. Recently, I was told that the snake was poisonous, so I became a little worried and went to a doctor, but he told me to go to a large hospital as soon as possible because there was no serum, so I had it checked at a hospital in Nagaoka. Fortunately, the test results were OK.
At that time, I learned for the first time about the difference between pit viper venom and rhabdopis tigrinus venom.
When picking nuts, they get carried away and have zero learning effect!
Memories of beekeeping (bee by bee)
About half a century ago, I went beekeeping with a friend in Yamanashi, and I will never forget the bee larva rice and eggplant stir-fry.
There were still fields in the suburbs of Tokyo, and I think there were a lot of local bees.
＊Bee here refers to Vespula (species of yellowjacket).
If you dip a cotton ball in chicken meat and put it in front of a ground bee, the bee will catch it and fly to the nest.
The participants run after the cotton ball at a dash. If they lose sight of it on the way, they run from the spot to the cotton wool. (The range of their movements is from 500 meters to 1 km, I think.)
When they find the hive, they inject celluloid (old pencil box) smoke into the hive, and when the bees faint, they disgorge the entire hive and the bee larvae.
It was an interesting and nourishing play!
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