Artificial centipede culture technology

The centipede is also called Tianlong, Baijiao, Wu Gong and Qian Chuanzi. The medicinal centipede is the whole body of Scolopendra subspini-pes mutilans L.Koch, a giant centipede with few spines in the family Centipede. Produced in Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places. Generally in the spring and summer capture, with two tips of bamboo inserted into the head and tail, taut, sun-dried, can also be scalded with boiling water, sun-dried, raw.

Culture techniques of centipedes (Jane 1):

First, the construction of centipede culture ponds should be built in sunny ventilation, ventilation conditions and relatively humid, secluded places. Aquaculture ponds can be built indoors or outside. The aquaculture pond is made of bricks or stones and covered with cement, with a depth of 80 cm. The inner wall of the pond is pasted with a smooth and lossless plastic film, or a circle of glass is set at the mouth of the pond at a right angle to the wall, with a width of 15 cm. In case the centipede escapes. Dig a ditch 10 cm wide and 4 cm deep around the wall in the pool, and dig a trough 30 cm wide and 3 cm deep inside the ditch for feeding. Weeds and trees can be planted in the pond, and some stones and tiles can be stacked for centipedes to inhabit. After putting the seedlings, the pond should be covered with a layer of grass curtain to block the light. The pool should be kept clean, moist, shady and hygienic.

Second, the feeding method centipedes are generally fed every 2 to 3 days, once a day during the active period, and do not need to be fed and watered during the incubation period. The feeding time is between 16, 30, 18 and 00 per day. The leftover food must be picked out the morning after feeding. Centipede feed can refer to the following formula: ① 70% of insect animals, 20% of cooked potatoes, 10% of chopped, green vegetables or bread fragments, 70% of ② meat of livestock or other animals, 20% of fish meal or silkworm pupa powder, and 10% of vegetable fragments. Every day, a small plate containing clear water is placed in the feeding trough for the centipede to drink.

Third, centipede reproduction and hatching centipedes generally mate from March to June, lay eggs from May to July, and lay 40-50 eggs each time. After laying eggs, the centipede holds the eggs in its arms and hatches. Hatching about 20 days out of the shell, 45 days later to leave the mother to live independently. During the incubation period, the temperature and humidity should be kept quiet and suitable. The general temperature should be controlled between 25 ℃ and 32 ℃, and the humidity should be controlled between 50% and 70%.

The living habits of centipedes:

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 raising centipedes, we should try our best to create the living conditions it requires according to its 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.