A Chinese worm catcher drags his fishing net to catch larvae of mosquitoes in the Qinghe River in Beijing, China, 22 July 2014. Hundreds of worm cat
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A Chinese worm catcher drags his fishing net to catch larvae of mosquitoes in the Qinghe River in Beijing, China, 22 July 2014. Hundreds of worm catchers in Beijing has gone active in some local rivers as the weather is getting hotter and mosquitoes are churning out their worms. Every day, more than one hundred such cathers can be seen along the Qinghe River in the Chinese capital. Most of them are couples and have different jobs in worm catching. Men usually walk into the river and drag their nets for a large amount of worm-contained silt from the riverbed. And their women are responsible for clearing away the silt and sorting out worms on the bank. Then they sell the worms they caught to wholesales vendors at the price of 10 yuan (US$1.6) per kilogram. And the worms will be resold to some processing factories to be made into fish feed. It is said that each coulple is able to catch dozens of kilograms of such worms and earn 300-400 yuan per day. There are about 300 people living on worm catching in Beijing and someone can catch over 50 kilograms of worms per day, according to a catcher surnamed Zhang.