What does the grasshopper eat to grow up? It's fast and fat!

Grasshoppers, also known as flower insects and migratory locusts, are common medicinal and edible insects in grasslands, and they are the natural enemies of farmers, but they are regarded as pure natural green food because of their high nutritional value and mainly eat grass. What does grasshoppers eat to grow up? How do you raise it?

First, the introduction of grasshoppers:

1. Are grasshoppers locusts?

Grasshoppers are a kind of locusts, similar to ordinary locusts, except that they have a pointed head, a big mouth, a well-developed chin, green or brown, and bounce away as soon as they meet anyone.

2. Is the grasshopper a beneficial insect or a pest?

Grasshoppers are pests. Because the grasshopper mainly feeds on the stems and leaves of green plants, and the spawning rate is high, it can lay eggs twice a year. When the climate is suitable, locusts will occur in the following year, causing damage to crops and leaving crops in the fields without harvest. It can be said to be the natural enemy of farmers.

Second, what do grasshoppers eat to grow up?

1. What do wild grasshoppers eat to grow up?

Wild grasshoppers eat all kinds of green plants with relatively thick leaves, such as sweet potato, cabbage, hollow cabbage, corn, wheat, rice, sorghum, rice, Reed, dog tooth grass, sea bumper, and so on, so it is necessary to strengthen prevention and control when planting crops.

2. What do artificially farmed grasshoppers eat to grow up?

Artificially farmed grasshoppers also eat a wide range of food, in addition to eating green plants with thick leaves, but also eat artificially matched green feed, such as Monocotyledon grass, pointed-leaf grass, ryegrass, corn grass, bran, bran feed, etc., but mainly eat grasses, so try to plant some green grass during breeding, in case there is not enough food to harm crops.

Third, how to raise grasshoppers?

1. Site selection and 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 cultivate them in sunny places where there are no crops. After selecting the site, build a two-meter-high greenhouse, seal the surrounding, and then disinfect and sterilize to provide it with a good living environment.

2. Incubation management: the newly bought grasshopper should be placed in a shed with sufficient light and smooth ground, then covered with fine soil, the temperature in the shed should be set to about 2530 degrees, and the grasshopper will be given fluorescent light for 12 hours a day for about 13 days. The grasshopper can hatch successfully. If the temperature is lower than 14 degrees or higher than 40 degrees, you will stop eating and die, so you must control the temperature during the incubation period. In addition, in order to improve the spawning rate, you can sprinkle some water on the ground during the spawning period, and then spread some weeds and wheat bran to ensure proper humidity and temperature in the shed.

3. Larval management: the freshly hatched grasshopper has fragile vitality, so it is necessary to feed some wheat, tender vegetable leaves, etc., to promote its rapid molting. It usually molts once every 5 or 7 days, and after molting five times after a month, it can provide a lot of food for its rapid growth. Do not touch it or move it during feeding to avoid death.

4. Feeding management: during the adult period of the grasshopper, it is necessary to reasonably feed some more nutritious food such as wheat, corn kernels and millet, so that it will grow fast and fat.

5. Adult management: after the grasshopper grows into an adult, it is necessary to control the moisture, humidity and feed in the shed to promote its spawning and mating. During the spawning period, food intake should be controlled to increase the spawning rate.

Generally speaking, grasshoppers have miscellaneous food habits, whether they are corn, wheat, or black grass, so try to match them reasonably during breeding. In addition, if you want to raise a grasshopper well, you need to control the amount of food, temperature and moisture, so that you will grow fast and fat.