Women raise "Xiaoqiang" to get rich and dry for 400 yuan per jin.

Yuan Meixia, a drugstore employee in Siqian Town, Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is famous for raising 100000 "Xiaoqiang". The "Xiaoqiang" cultivated by Yuan Meixia is called "Periplaneta Americana" and has certain medicinal value. When the cockroaches grew up, Yuan Meixia packed the adults in a stainless steel bucket, soaked them to death in clean water, dried them, put them in plastic bags and sold them to a pharmaceutical factory in Anhui Province. A jin dried in the sun can be sold for three or four hundred yuan.

In the movie "Tang Bohu Lian Qiu Xiang", Zhou Xingchi gave an amazing performance that made the audience remember the cockroach named "Xiaoqiang". In Siqian Town, Xinhui District, Yuan Meixia, an employee of the drugstore, became a local celebrity because he raised 100000 "Xiaoqiang", which attracted many villagers' surprise. "these are my children, my babies." Yesterday, Yuan Meixia led Nandu reporters to explore her "Xiaoqiang base."

"Xiaoqiang" wants to drink glucose and make the door with screen.

Yuan Meixia is from Linbian Village, Siqian Town. Although she bought a building in the town, she has an old house that has been idle for many years in Linbian Village. This is her "Xiaoqiang base." Walking into the living room, there is a bag of glucose on the table. "this is for larvae to eat, just like children, to supplement nutrition." Yuan Meixia said with a smile.

The room at the back of the living room has a screen door with a zipper in the middle to allow people to get in and out and prevent cockroaches from coming out. Yuan Meixia said, "the cockroaches you usually see are called Blattella germanica, and the cockroaches here are called Periplaneta Americana. They like to eat starch and sweets." Entering the "base", the Nandu reporter saw that on the three-story shelves on both sides, there were several cantaloupes, as well as apples and rice bran. Seeing someone coming in, the densely packed "Xiao Qiang" fled and hid among the planks.

The cracks in the ceiling and walls of the base are sealed with cement, and in hot weather, Yuan Meixia will sprinkle water on the wall to cool down. "if it's too cold, burn the stove to heat them." "they are the most active at night, foraging and mating." At 18:00 every afternoon, Yuan Meixia comes to feed the cockroach. The larvae and adults live separately in egg boxes and wooden clips.

"when they are full, they mate, two minutes at a time, and they can lay several eggs, and one egg can hatch more than 10 larvae." Yuan Meixia picked up an egg that looked very much like a red bean and said that after mating, the male and female cockroaches came to the end of their lives. The egg sheath of Periplaneta Americana has 14-16 eggs per sheath. In the warm south, it takes only one month to hatch in spring.

Raise cockroaches as a sideline and sell them to pharmaceutical companies outside the province

Yuan Meixia, 37, is an employee of a drugstore in Siqian town. why does she keep cockroaches? The story has to start last year. "I saw in a program on the science and education channel that someone in Anhui raised this kind of cockroach and said it could be eaten and used as medicine. I took tens of thousands of yuan to study for a week, and spent more than 10,000 yuan to buy 20 kilograms of seedlings to raise them. Now there are almost 100000. They are all my children, my babies. " Yuan Meixia regards raising cockroaches as a sideline.

When the cockroaches grew up, Yuan Meixia packed the adults in a stainless steel bucket, soaked them to death in clean water, dried them, put them in plastic bags and sold them to a pharmaceutical factory in Anhui Province. "the sun-dried Periplaneta Americana has anti-cancer effect." Yuan Meixia said that a jin dried in the sun can be sold for 300 to 400 yuan. You can harvest it every two months, and you can get 10 or 20 kilograms in the sun.

Folk folk prescriptions have certain medicinal value.

"Periplaneta Americana has not been added to traditional Chinese medicine, but it has entered a folk prescription and has a certain effect." A Chinese medicine doctor at Wuyi traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital said. Not long ago, researchers from the Department of Gastroenterology of the second affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University published a paper saying that "Periplaneta Americana and its different extracts have protective effects on liver function in mice with acute immune liver injury induced by concanavalin a (c ona)."

A reporter from Nandu found that there are many people raising Periplaneta Americana in Shandong, Anhui and other places in China, but only a handful of them are raised locally. Periplaneta Americana has certain medicinal value, and the technology of artificial reproduction is relatively mature, but at present, few people raise it locally. If it is raised, it is necessary to pay attention to protective measures to prevent the spread of germs, prevent them from running out, and bring ecological damage. Ke Chuangyao, director of the Jianghai District Supervision Office, said.

Anecdotes of breeding

Feed a cantaloupe every day.

3 jin of apple and 3 jin of rice bran

"it's good to raise chickens, ducks and pigs, but why raise cockroaches?" At first, the villagers were very curious. "raising chickens and ducks can get sick. They have strong vitality and basically don't have to worry about getting sick." Yuan Meixia found something interesting when she was raising Periplaneta Americana. "they have to clean up their feces and collect eggs every day. If they are not collected in time, they will be eaten by themselves. They eat a cantaloupe, 3 jin of apples and 3 jin of rice bran a day. In addition, Periplaneta Americana can reproduce asexually. In the absence of males, females can produce unfertilized egg sheaths and partially hatch female larvae. " Yuan Meixia also found this interesting phenomenon. "from January to May, there are more females, and from June to October, there are more males."