Bright Prospect of Tenebrio Molitor Culture Industry-- getting Rich by breeding Tenebrio Molitor

Tenebrio molitor L. belongs to Coleoptera in insect taxonomy. It was originally a storage pest, commonly known as bread worm. It has the characteristics of fast growth, high reproduction coefficient and high egg quality. It is a kind of feed for birds, turtles, snakes, scorpions, fish and frogs. It is also a kind of insect food with high egg content and low fat. It is mainly used for export at present.

Tenebrio molitor L. belongs to Coleoptera in insect taxonomy. It was originally a storage pest, commonly known as bread worm. It has the characteristics of fast growth, high reproduction coefficient and high egg quality. It is a kind of feed for birds, turtles, snakes, scorpions, fish and frogs. It is also a kind of insect food with high egg content and low fat. It is mainly used for export at present.

Analysis on the prospect of breeding Tenebrio molitor L.

1. Tenebrio molitor has many uses

Tenebrio molitor L. contains nine kinds of essential amino acids, egg quality, free amino acids, vitamins, mineral elements, unsaturated fatty acids and other nutrients, chitin, antibacterial peptide defensin and exogenous lectin. It can be used as original food, inkstone, sauce products, compound amino acids and seasoning powder for small foods. Tenebrio molitor oil can be used to make soap, Taikoo and plasticizers, etc. preparing fish bone meal and meat bone meal as egg self-feed. Insect molts and adult shells can be used to extract carapace and chitosan. Insect dung (sand dung) can be used as biological organic fertilizer. In Wuhan City, 90,000 miles of wine and 90,000 miles of noodles have been developed by Jiuwanli Company with this insect as raw material.

2. Tenebrio molitor is easy to breed, grows fast and reproduces more

Tenebrio molitor feeding technology content is low, labor intensity is small, easy to operate, easy to manage. the requirement for that surround environment is not high, and the yellow mealworm can be cultured in house, balconies, abandoned houses, warehouses and simple shack of urban and rural residents; the yellow mealworm has a wide range of feeds, and feeds on wheat bran, rice bran, corn husks, soybean meal, crop straws, green vegetables, vine vines and distiller's grains; the rearing tools can be wooden boxes, wooden frames and the like; the yellow mealworm has a growth cycle of 3 months, and each female worm can lay 300 - 900 eggs, and the requirements for environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity are not strict

III. Breeding Tenebrio molitor opens up a new way to transform crop straw

China produces 500 - 600 million tons of crop stalks and vines every year, less than 20% of which are used as livestock feeding, less than 10% of which are used as fuel, and the rest are burned or piled up for natural decay without utilization value, which not only causes waste of resources, but also pollutes the environment. Tenebrio molitor L. can fully transform agricultural organic wastes (detritus) such as straw into substances that can be utilized by human beings.

IV. Benefit analysis of breeding Tenebrio molitor

1 kg (6000~7000) larvae of Tenebrio molitor can be produced by 1.25~1.5 kg of concentrate and coarse feed on average, and the pollen rate is 40%~50%. According to the current price calculation, each production of 1 kg of Tenebrio molitor costs about 3.2-3.5 yuan, that is, the cost price is 3200-3500 yuan/ton, and the cost is only 1200-1500 yuan/ton. If it is self-supporting, it can greatly reduce the cost of high protein feed in aquaculture. At present, the price of imported fish meal is 5300-5500 yuan/ton. In contrast, mealworm saves about 2000-2500 yuan/ton compared with fish meal. One main labor force or two auxiliary labor forces can operate an annual output of 3000 kg of insect breeding scale; the output value is about 40,000 yuan, and the net profit is about 30,000 yuan.