How can arthropod land worms (millipedes) be completely eliminated? What kind of food do you eat? Is it poisonous? Who is the natural enemy?

Malu, also known as millipedes, millipedes, and scale worms, usually likes to move in groups, generally living in dark and damp places, such as litter or under rubble, and specializes in eating fallen leaves and humus, and there are also a few species that eat plant buds and tender roots, which are agricultural pests, so how can they be completely eliminated? Is it poisonous? Who is the natural enemy?

Introduction of Malu

The horse land worm is roughly divided into a horse land, a giant horse land, a wide tarsal horse land, a mountain beetle, a horse land, and a giant horse land.

Malu belongs to arthropod phylum, polypod subphylum, polypod class, body segment composition. About 20-35 mm long, dark brown, red yellow on both sides of the back and legs. Malu can emit pungent liquid, and the liquid emitted by Malagasy scarlet Malagasy in the rainforest can blind people for a moment. There are about 10000 species of Malu in the world. The largest millipede in the world is the African giant Malu, which is 38 centimeters long and 4 centimeters in diameter. The body is dark and bright, and after being touched, its body will be twisted into a spiral. The number of individuals in Malu changed obviously with time. On sunny days, adult Malu lay out at day and night, and occasionally a small number of individuals were active on the ground during the day. In cloudy and rainy weather, the group can move on the ground all day, showing an obvious phenomenon of surface aggregation. From June to October every year, the night after rain is at its peak from summer to early autumn.

Is the horse worm poisonous?

Although the horse land worm is non-toxic, it has stinky glands on the body nodes, which can secrete a poisonous smelly liquid, which smells bad, so that poultry and birds do not dare to peck it, and human eating horse land by mistake will lead to allergic edema of lips and so on. At the same time, although the horse land worm does not bite, it can secrete toxins that can cause local irritation when touching and fiddling with it, which can cause obvious erythema, herpes and necrosis.

If accidentally touching a horse worm causes skin allergy, do not wipe it with alcohol, but wash it with soapy water. If the skin reacts, corticosteroids can be applied locally. Eye injuries should be washed immediately and corticosteroid eye drops or ointment should be applied.

What do horse worms eat?

Horse land is a common group of soil animals, which mainly feeds on plant residues such as litter and rotten wood, and is one of the first processors of ecosystem material decomposition. Living on and feeding on rotten plants, some are also harmful to plants, and a few are predatory or carrion-eating.

Eat more humus and sometimes damage crops. It generally harms the young roots and tender seedlings and young stems and leaves of plants. In addition to lawns, the damaged plants also include cyclamen, chrysanthemum, orchid, fern, begonia, crabapple, asparagus and other flowers and plants.

In some families, Malu is also raised as a pet. Generally, Malu is fed with fallen leaves and rotten wood. Sometimes you can feed all kinds of melons, fruits and vegetables as snacks. The number of individuals in Malu is horizontally distributed in broad-leaved forest, coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest and coniferous forest, and the vertical distribution decreases sharply from the surface to the bottom. The annual change is the most at the end of summer.

How can the horse land worm be completely eliminated?

I. artificial prevention and control

In the indoor, clean frequently, keep the indoor clean, often open the windows for ventilation; remove tiles, bricks, material piles and so on around the house outdoors to reduce the hidden places in Malu.

(1) time for prevention and control

According to the habit that the horse land insect likes shade and dampness, lives in seclusion during the day, and crawls in the morning and night, it can be controlled all day indoors, and the best time for outdoor control is from 5: 00 a.m. to 10:00 in the morning. 5: 00 p. M. until dark at night.

(2) measures for prevention and control

1. Hit the quarantine zone. Take the form of encircling from indoor to outdoor, farmland and forest, and hit the isolation zone with lime powder to strictly prevent the spread of equine land insects.

two。 Manual removal. For the equine land worms entering the courtyard or indoor, sweeping, stepping, patting, boiling water and other methods are used to clean the equine land worms, and then sprinkle some lime to disinfect, to remove the odor, or spray "realgar water" to drive the worms.

II. Chemical control

1. Apply lime powder around the house to prevent the horse land worm from climbing into the house.

2. For the "Malu" which is concentrated and has a large population and is in the process of migration, quicklime can be applied.

For the horse land worms with concentrated serial pieces and large population, the indoor spray of 2500 times of dichlorvos EC, the 1000 times of 4.5% cypermethrin EC and 1000 times of phoxim EC were selected outdoors, and the same plot was sprayed for 2 to 3 times for 3 days in a row, and the pesticide and liquid were required to infiltrate evenly into the surface of the ground in order to achieve the ideal effect.

Natural enemies of Horse Land Worm

1. Ants: ants are the biggest enemy of moulting and hatching period.

2. Acaroid mites: if the humidity in the feeding pond of Malu is too high, it is easy to be harmed by acaroid mites when the temperature is high. After being parasitized by acaroid mites, it is not only inconvenient to move, but also can not be stimulated by the toxins produced by acaroid mites. More serious things, acaroid mites absorb a large amount of nutrients in the centipede, causing the centipede to lose weight and die.

What's the difference between Malu and centipede?

The centipede has a flat body, a pair of antennae on the head, a pair of jaws, two pairs of jaws, 15 to 180 segments of the torso, each with a pair of appendages, and the first pair of appendages are jaw feet. The Malu body is long tube-shaped, except for the anterior and posterior ends, each segment of the body is healed by two segments. It seems that each segment has two pairs of feet, simple mouthparts, a pair of large jaws and a pair of plate-like jaw lips, and the lower lip has degenerated.