Two problems that should be paid attention to when beginners raise scorpions

Scorpion is one of the most popular medicinal materials in the market, and its price is rising year by year in recent years, but the medicine is still mainly used to catch wild scorpion. In the area around the city where the author lives, there have been some people introduced and tried to raise, but not many of them have been successful. For this reason, we discussed the scorpion disease and its countermeasures and how to raise scorpion artificially with Liu Dong, director of Lianyungang Medicine Station, Shen Yongzhen, a big scorpion farmer in Suyu County, and other experts in the industry. the relevant conclusions are summarized as follows for readers' reference.

First, how do scorpion farmers start?

1. Determine the scale and mode of culture. The scale of introduction should not be too large, generally as little as three or five hundred to as many as two or three thousand. If the number of scorpions is too small, the management cost is relatively high, and too many will easily lead to unexpected losses due to lack of experience and mismanagement. In the way of culture, it can be divided into indoor scorpion culture and outdoor scorpion culture in terms of culture environment, and the first culture should choose indoor scorpion culture; in terms of culture tools, there are bottle culture, basin culture, box culture, pond culture, pit culture and so on. Then transition to pit culture or pond culture. In addition, raising scorpions can be divided into room temperature and constant temperature, and the two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages and can be chosen according to their own conditions.

2. Attend training and visit farms. Scorpion breeding is not complicated, but it is a very meticulous work, many details are difficult to express in words, just looking at the data is very difficult to figure out. Those who want to raise scorpions must receive systematic training and visit and study at professional venues in order to really master the skills of raising scorpions.

3. Before introduction, raise Tenebrio Molitor in advance, and make scorpion nest and scorpion room at the same time.

4. Precautions for introduction: ① scorpions generally give birth from April to August of the lunar calendar, and the best introduction season is from late April to early May of the lunar calendar. The current market price of ② clear water scorpion is 400mur450 yuan / kg, but some individuals or companies offer seeds at high prices under the guise of high recovery prices (promised recovery prices up to more than 600yuan per kilogram). Breeders must recognize their true colors so as not to be fooled.

Second, why scorpions die easily

According to the survey, the main reason why scorpions are easy to get sick and die is that beginners do not know much about the living habits of scorpions and will not adjust their scorpion raising techniques according to their climatic conditions. With the author's region, the temperature is abnormal in winter and spring, sometimes falling to about 10 ℃, and sometimes rising to more than 20 ℃, making it difficult for scorpions to adapt, resulting in a large number of scorpions getting sick and dying (commonly known as "spring death"); in addition, in late spring and early summer, Rain Water is more, the air humidity is larger, food is prone to mildew, coupled with the newly awakened scorpions like to overeat, easy to die as a result of indigestion and other reasons. In addition, scorpions are extremely sensitive to various odors, and some scorpion breeders often unconsciously bring abnormal odors such as perfume, alcohol, medicine and odor into the scorpion room, disturbing the scorpion's olfactory system and causing the scorpion to get sick. To this end, scorpion breeders must carefully observe the living habits of scorpions, carefully ponder and take good care of them, fully understand what scorpions like and dislike, and then try their best to meet their environmental and food requirements.