Culture technology of scientific centipede

The centipede is a very aggressive animal with strong toxicity and crawling very fast. However, this highly toxic centipede is not only highly valuable, but also edible, and has a good curative effect on some related diseases, so let's explain some methods of breeding centipedes.

Culture technology of scientific centipede

Centipede is a typical carnivorous insect with ferocious nature. with its jaws that can emit venom, centipede can prey on all kinds of small animals that are much larger than it. Centipedes have a wide range of food sources. from the results of field observation and trial-raising observation, and combining the feeding experience of various places, the feed of centipedes can be divided into the following categories: one is all kinds of insects, such as crickets, locusts, tobacco insects, beetles, rice bracts, cattle. Adults, pupae, larvae and eggs of hornworms, cicadas, grasshoppers, dragonflies, spiders, flies and bees.

The other is the muscles, bones and internal organs of invertebrates such as worms, earthworms, snails and slugs and vertebrates such as frogs, snakes, lizards, geckos, sparrows, rats and bats. The other is that when the above food sources are insufficient, they also eat a small amount of tender grass, branch tips, root tips, watermelons, cucumbers and other melons and fruits, as well as eggs, milk, bread and other cooked products. In addition, centipedes raised in Zhejiang mainly eat Loach, Monopterus Albus, small fish, shrimp and crabs.

Although the centipede has a wide range of food sources, it requires fresh food and does not eat rotten food. Therefore, when artificial breeding, fresh feed must be thrown every 2-3 days. Before feeding, thoroughly remove the remaining food from the previous time. The centipede eats a lot at one time and has strong tolerance to hunger. When you are hungry, you can eat up to 1 pound of your body weight at a time. After eating enough, you won't starve to death without food for ten and a half days and a half. At the same time, centipedes are not thirsty and need to drink water every day. Therefore, water containers must be placed in the farm and the water must be changed regularly to keep the drinking water fresh and clean.

Construction of centipede culture pond

Artificial breeding centipedes can be raised in tanks or ponds. The use of cylinder maintenance, with dilapidated tile cylinder or ceramic cylinder, the narrowest diameter is more than 0.5m, the mouth is buried in the soil 20cm or so, the middle of the cylinder is built with dilapidated brick or adobe, which is about 10cm lower than the cylinder surface, and there is a certain gap between the billet and the cylinder wall. If you use an intact cylinder, don't knock out the bottom, just base the adobe in the cylinder. A jar of 80cm in diameter can hold about 200 adult centipedes.

When using pond culture, the culture pond should be built in the sunny ventilation, drainage conditions and relatively humid, secluded places, can be built indoors, can also be built outside. With bricks or stones and other masonry, cement plastering, ground height 80cm, the size of the pond area is random, generally in 5 ~ 10 years. The ground is covered with fine stones or broken tiles, and weeds and trees can also be planted in the pond to create a natural ecological environment suitable for centipedes. The inner wall of the pool is pasted with a smooth and lossless plastic film or is inlaid with a glass sheet around the pool mouth into an inner eave with a width of about 15cm and at right angles to the pool wall to prevent centipedes from escaping and harmful animals from falling into the pool. Generally, about 500 ~ 900 adult centipedes can be released in a culture pond per square meter.

The centipede is afraid of the sun and goes out at night. During the day, they generally live on hillsides, fields, roadsides or places overgrown with weeds, especially like to hide in abandoned trenches, barren graves, roadside cracks, stones and rubble. From Grain in Beard to the Summer Solstice, with the gradual rise of temperature, centipedes like to live in dark, humid, warm, sheltered and well-ventilated places. In the late autumn season, they often live under the slopes of pine trenches facing the wind or in tree holes. Stop eating when the temperature is below 10 ℃ and enter hibernation at minus 7 ℃. The hibernating centipede no longer moves or eats, the body is in the shape of "S", the antennae are curled from outside to inside, and the tail feet are together. The depth of overwintering latency is directly related to air temperature and soil temperature.

Centipedes need to molt several times from egg hatching, larval development to adult. Every time you shed your skin, you grow up obviously. Adult centipedes shed their skin once a year and others twice a year. Avoid alarm when molting, otherwise it will prolong the molting time (usually about 2 hours). At this time, it is also necessary to prevent swarms of ants from attacking, because the centipede in the molt has no ability to resist. The centipede grows slowly, from hatching eggs to larvae in the first year to growing to 3cm~4cm before hibernation in that year, to 3.5cm~6cm in the second year, and to more than 10cm in the third year. Therefore, it takes 3 to 4 years for a centipede to develop into an adult from an egg to lay eggs again.

Mating and reproduction of centipede

Centipedes give birth to eggs and reproduce quickly, and generally mate in June, July and August. Under normal circumstances, it takes four months from mating to spawning. When laying eggs, the female centipede digs a small hole in the soil, and the mother curve is S-shaped. The back of the tail segment is laid on the back of the middle of the body due to the bending of the body, and the egg material excreted by the reproductive hole accumulates in the back, and then turns the body to encircle the egg mass. The egg mass is generally about 60 to 70 eggs, and a small number is about 20 to 30 eggs. The centipede eggs shed their egg membrane and fetal skin after about 20 days, and the hatched centipede larvae are milky white. The female centipedes still hold the larvae tightly between their feet, and the larvae rarely move. After 25 to 30 days, the larvae undergo a second molting, the body shape is similar to that of the adults, the body color is still milky white, and the middle part of the body is slightly obese. After 35 to 42 days, the body color is grayish yellow and the activity is enhanced. Instead of huddling closely together, it is loosely concentrated on the ventral side of the mother, when the larva and the mother can be separated, put the mother in a large group to mate, and give full food to the postpartum centipede, and the young centipede is given a small feed. (you can also produce per unit area, use wide-mouth cans to put soil in the jar and put the female centipede into it.

Strengthen prenatal feeding: the centipede does not eat or drink water during incubation, and maintains its activities by consuming its own nutrition. before spawning, the mother has the habit of eating and accumulating nutrition. at this time, the amount of food should be increased and attention should be paid to adjusting the variety of food. to encourage the mother to eat more and increase the nutrition before hatching.

Nursing during incubation: the centipede had a certain response to surprise and strong light during the period of egg-hugging and nursery. Therefore, during the incubation period, if you observe carefully, do not move casually or illuminate by strong light, there is no need to feed during the incubation period, a certain amount of water is given at any time in the incubator, and there is a little moisture around, so that the normal development of the fetus will not be affected.

After hatching, although the young centipedes live in groups temporarily, they can also move and find food alone, and at this time the mother gradually leaves the incubator nest to move alone. Because the centipede has the strange habit of fighting for food, strong bullying and small bullying, the big and small centipedes should be raised in nests in time.

Control culture density

In the case of too much density of centipede life or more disturbance, it is easy to cause mutual killing and death. However, under the feeding conditions, with the improvement of the living environment and feeding conditions, such as providing enough fresh feed and water, it will not increase the disturbance to its life, even if the breeding density is high, it will not have much impact on its life. In particular, centipedes produced by the same mother live together since childhood, and when they grow up, dozens of centipedes can live together in harmony. Therefore, providing enough fresh feed and water to keep a quiet environment is a necessary condition for artificial breeding of centipedes. Unless it is necessary to cultivate seedlings, avoid mixing young centipedes from different ponds as far as possible.

As mentioned above, centipede breeding still needs a certain technical content, can not be raised blindly. Centipede attack speed is very fast and toxic, so breeding centipedes also need to be more careful. Centipede has high medicinal value and a wide range of uses, and can be eaten by cooking wine, grinding powder and so on.