What are the methods for preventing and controlling insect pests in centipede farming?

1. Ants. Ants are the greatest enemy of centipedes during molting and the egg-laying and hatching periods. Because a centipede that is molting has no ability to resist, and its new skin is tender, it easily attracts large groups of ants that bite it to death. At the same time, during the incubation of eggs, the centipede is in a semi-sleep state and moves slowly, making it easy for groups of ants to take the opportunity to bite the centipede to death, or to drive the centipede away, while the ants gather on the egg mass and eat the egg material. The following methods can be used to prevent ants:

1. Once ants are found, pig bones can be placed in the pool to trap and kill the ants. If there are too many ants, immediately move the centipedes away, then use boiling water to scald and kill the ants in the pool. 2. Regularly use quicklime or benzene hexachloride powder, or mix 50 grams of naphthalene (mothballs) with 250 grams of sawdust, stir them together to make poisonous bait, and scatter it around the pool or room to prevent ants from entering. 3. Mix 25 grams of honey, 25 grams of borax, 25 grams of glycerin, and 250 grams of warm water, stir well, and place it around the breeding site in places where ants frequently appear to trap and kill them. 4. The rearing soil should be selected from soil not contaminated by ants or ant eggs. The preparation method is to soak it with hot boiling water, then place it in the sun to expose it, so as to kill the ants or ant eggs mixed in the soil. 2. Flour mites. Flour mites are less than 1 mm in body length and easily parasitize the abdomen and legs of centipedes, especially newly molted centipedes, whose bodies are tender and even more likely to be parasitized by flour mites. If the humidity in the rearing room or pool is too high, then when the temperature is high, it is easy to attract a large number of flour mites to settle here and reproduce, bringing harm to centipedes. After being parasitized by flour mites, not only is the centipede's activity hindered, but the stimulation of toxins produced by the flour mites also makes the centipede restless. More seriously, the flour mites absorb a large amount of nutrients from the centipede, causing the centipede to become thin and weak and die. The prevention and control methods are as follows: 1. First, properly treat the rearing soil, using hot boiling water soaking and sun exposure to kill flour mites and mite eggs. 2. Second, put pig bones into the pool to lure and gather flour mites, and remove them 2 to 3 times a day; the effect is very good.