And the few spots where you can find the fungus in the summer on the mainland are getting so picked over that "that there virtually isn't clump of grass that hasn't been upturned," says Yang Shih-fu, a Chinese herbal pharmacist who worries that declining harvests will imperil supplies.
而少數幾個產區在夏天時為了尋找蟲草，「整個草皮幾乎都被翻了過來」，中藥鋪老闆楊世福擔心蟲草未來的產量會有危機。