How does the grasshopper survive the winter?

Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects with short whip-like antennae and powerful hind legs that can bounce to avoid predators. Body colors are green and brown. So, how do grasshoppers survive the winter?

How do grasshoppers winter?

Most grasshoppers die during the winter, but a few survive and hibernate. Under normal circumstances, they will die after laying eggs in late autumn, and the eggs laid will grow into grasshoppers the following spring.

Second, how to raise grasshoppers?

1. Construction

Grasshoppers like to live in a sunny, well-drained and quiet environment, but because they like to eat all kinds of crops, they try to choose sunny land without any crops. After selecting the land, build a two-meter-high greenhouse, seal the surrounding area, and then disinfect and sterilize it to provide a good living environment.

2. Incubation management

Just bought grasshopper, to put it in sufficient light and flat ground shed, and then cover it with fine soil, the temperature in the shed will be adjusted to 25~30 degrees or so, give twelve hours of fluorescent lamp irradiation every day, continuous 13 days or so, grasshopper can hatch successfully. If the temperature is lower than 14 degrees or higher than 40 degrees, it will stop eating and die, so during the incubation period, it is necessary to control the temperature. In addition, in order to improve the spawning rate, during the spawning period, water can be sprinkled on the ground first, and then some weeds, wheat chaff, etc., to ensure that the humidity and temperature in the shed are appropriate.

3. Larva management

Grasshoppers that have just hatched are very fragile in vitality, so they should be fed some wheat, tender vegetable leaves, etc. to promote their rapid molting. Generally, they shed their skin once every 5 to 7 days. After a month, they shed their skin five times, which can provide a large amount of food for their rapid growth. During feeding, be sure not to touch it or move it, lest it die.

4. Feeding management

Grasshopper adult period, to feed some reasonable wheat, corn, millet and other more nutritious food, that will grow fast and fat.

5. Adult management

Grasshopper adult, to control the good shed moisture, humidity and feed, in order to promote its spawning mating. During the spawning period, good food intake should be controlled to increase the spawning rate.