Minnowhelper Writing Contest # Nature Capture

Nature always presents a variety of beauty, sometimes we are seduced by the panoramic expanse of the breadth of the beach, sometimes we are fascinated with rows of mountains towering, coolness waterfall also never make us complacent stared at each drop of water falling from a height varying natural dish filled with flora and fauna complement the beauty and comfort for humans who inhabit the planet earth.

But all the natural beauty will perish on a regular basis and will be shattered like an atomic bomb that ever made Nagasaki and Hirosyima destroyed nothing left, if human greed continues to continue for personal interest and fill the void of the stomach.

Like this dragonfly, this dragonfly has been one of the most prevalent insects in rice fields and hills in our village in the 1990s. But now the population is almost extinct, dragonfly type of this is very hard to find.

But until now there has been no survey that shows that the dragonfly is on the verge of extinction is caused by chemicals derived from drugs used by rice farmers to expel pests at rice fields area in order to maintain a satisfactory harvest.

If we are a flashback to the 1990s where farmers still use the traditional way of expelling pests and insects that are the main enemies of rice crops is very different from the traditions of today's farmers who use instant methods to treat rice from pests and insects.

In the 1990s, farmers still used male carcasses to expel mice in rice fields, stalks of male carcasses cut off and placed on the edge of the rice fields and some thrown into the middle of rice fields. The use of tree trunks is done because the tree trunk has a similarity to the snake skin that is the main enemy of rats, so the rats did not dare to approach the area of rice fields.

Likewise, insects and pests are always scattered in the fields when rice begins to grow and seeds, old farmers are diligent to burn coconut husk in the morning and the afternoon before sunset, coconut husk capable of producing thick smoke that spread to rice fields so that pests and insects can not approach area of paddy fields.

But now it is not effective and efficient to do, because the effort is too ancient and not to follow the times, let alone the ads to use spray pest and insects increasingly coloring television and radio screens in the early 2000s.

The use of this pesticide remedy works very effectively and efficiently, no need to be done many times or every morning and evening. Simply done once every rice begins to seed and contains. So pests and insects are desperate to approach the rice plants declared dead after tasting the delicious rice farmers. Just imagine in a year this happens twice in every area of rice field, not to mention the area of plantation and wide fields. The farmer's rice. Just imagine in a year this happens twice in every area of rice field, not to mention the area of plantation and wide fields.

So do not be surprised if one day our children and grandchildren no longer know grasshoppers or dragonflies, do not know snails or butterflies. Because we've killed all the populations that today still have one or two more left that may not have been the year of rice.

This paper does not intend to complain farmers who still use pesticides or other pest repellents. This is just I write as a form of memories that I have ever experienced the beauty of nature filled with various types of insects in my childhood and it is very enjoyable.

Oh yeah, you must have seen the stars in the swamp area too, these stars are able to fly here and there and sometimes settle in fists when we were kids. We call them fireflies.

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Fireflies are a type of insect with a body size of approximately ½ cm, has two wings and six feet. This insect is only out at night, in the tail of a firefly there is a kind of lights that light up so that looks like starlight in the sky. But now these insects are gone, whether they are extinct or have moved to another swamp they may also have habitat in the protected forest.

I still remember those times, beautiful and very modest, if anyone asks you to be sure of those joyful times? Honestly I will answer "very, very long" if only time can spin then I will return there to enjoy the beauty of flora and fauna that always cheer every night and day.

But it is impossible, and we also can not deny the development of the age and technology that increasingly booming on this earth. Inevitably we must follow the change. Because time will continue to spin and walk and never look back even if only one second.