How to raise a climbing fork

Climbing fork is a kind of name for golden cicada in Taian Dongping area, and other areas are also called Du La turtle, Du Lao, climbing locust, cicada monkey, etc. How does it grow?

How to breed climbing fork?

1. seed collection

Primary provenances can be collected naturally in the field, eggs, nymph and adults can be collected as provenances. 7-9 August to September is the best season to collect nymph; September is the best time to collect cicada eggs and branches, which can be collected all year round.

2. breeding environment

Grasshopper "seed" depth to 30-50 cm is appropriate, to sunny antifreeze, soft soil, fertile, pollution-free; not too dry, nor too high water content or the existence of water phenomenon. Cultivation sites can be poplar, elm, willow, tung trees or orchards in various fruit trees mainly, while intercropping potatoes, sweet potatoes, yam, etc.

3. epidemic prevention

There are many natural enemies after unearthed nymph (cicadas) and adult after emergence, such as toad, snake, rat, hedgehog, wild cat, sparrow and mantis, etc., who like to eat nymph (cicadas). Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae and entomogenous algae (cicadas) also parasitize and harm. In addition, floods and pesticides and chemical fertilizer pollution on the nymph (know turtle) or cicada harm is also greater, breeding should be paid attention to and protected.

4. facilities

Fruit trees in abandoned orchards can be used, fruit tree seedlings can be replanted, cement columns or bamboo sticks are used to erect fences around them, iron wires are pulled in the middle, and nylon window screens can be covered outside.

Harvest by climbing fork is carried out from mid-late June (around summer solstice) to early August (around autumn) every year, and the best harvest is in early July or after rain.