Introduction to the breeding of centipede

(1) Life habits

Centipedes mainly live in the low mountain areas with more stone and less soil, and only a few are distributed in the plain area. Every year after the sting, the temperature warms up, the centipede wakes up in hibernation, begins to unearth, and is good at living in wet weeds or rocky ditches. From Grain in Beard to the Summer Solstice, as the temperature gradually rises, it gradually moves into the cracks in the shady trenches, graveyards, ridges or mounds to avoid the hot day. In the late autumn season, they often live under the leeward and sunny loose soil slopes or where the tree holes and roots are warmer. In short, the centipede is afraid of light, sleeps during the day and goes out at night, and likes to live in dark, moist, warm and ventilated caves. Therefore, when artificially raising centipedes, they should try their best to create the living conditions they want according to their living habits. Such as the recommendation of planting trees in the farm and the placement of bricks and tiles are all measures taken to meet the requirements of the centipede for the living environment.

Centipedes usually come out at night to move alone. Although it has 8 monocular eyes, its eyesight is weak, especially during the day. When you move alone, you don't make a detour until the antennae touch each other, and avoid each other. On a clear and windless night, 20: 23 is the peak of their activity. Its activity is characterized by more activities at night and less during the day; more activity at night when the temperature is higher than 25 ℃, less activity at 10 ~ 150C; less or even no activity below 10 ℃; more activity at night after rain and less activity at night with low temperature; more activity at night without wind or breeze, less activity at night with strong wind (wind above level 6): more activity at night after rain and less on rainy days. Thus it can be seen that the frequency of centipede activity is closely related to meteorological factors such as air temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, rainfall and light intensity. Therefore, when raising centipedes, we should pay attention to the impact of the above meteorological factors on its life. At the same time, the centipede has a strong ability to drill seams, so the centipede can successfully drill through the holes in rocks, soil ridges and other holes, and can live in these gaps.

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.

(2) capture

It is usually better to capture in front of Ching Ming Festival. The centipede is an egg-laying insect. According to the living habits of the centipede, such as shading and dampness, quietness, and fear of strong light, the place where the jungle is shaded or the hillside is shaded is chosen as the capture site. In these places, chicken feathers, miscellaneous bones or leaves of withered grass are placed to induce centipedes to perch and lay eggs and pick eggs in front of Ching Ming Festival. When picking eggs, take back the soil with branches and weeds, put it into a human feeding pond or cover it in a feeding tank and hatch. During the incubation period, the mulch should be turned gently to prevent other insect pests from invading, so as to ensure that the larvae hatch smoothly and safely.

(3) feeding and management

1) Feed: centipede is a typical carnivorous insect with ferocious nature. with its jaws that can eject poison, 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.

2) spawning and hatching: every year late spring and early summer is the spawning period of centipedes. The number of eggs laid by each female centipede is generally 20 eggs, mostly 40 eggs and 50 eggs, and a few less than 10 eggs. Before spawning, the centipede's belly is close to the ground, digging shallow caves by itself. When laying eggs, the centipede's body is bent into an "S" shape, and the eggs are laid in a string of eggs from the reproductive pore in a shallow hole dug by themselves. Without external disturbance, it takes 2-3 hours to lay eggs. After giving birth, then turn sideways, gather the egg support into a mass with step feet, and hold it in the "arms" to hatch. The eggs produced by centipedes are oval in shape, of different sizes, generally about 3~3.5mm in diameter, beige, translucent and elastic.