Centipede Rearing Management Methods and Technical Key Points
Seeking Centipede Rearing Management Methods and Techniques
(Agricultural Wealth Network) Seeking Centipede Rearing Management Methods and Techniques
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1. Controlled rearing
For controlled rearing of centipedes, various forms such as rearing pools, rearing jars, and rearing tanks can be used, but all should be escape-proof. The walls of the rearing pool can be made of glass or plastic sheeting, or water trenches can be built around the perimeter to prevent centipedes from escaping.
In artificial centipede breeding, ensuring the survival rate of centipede offspring is a very important task. Centipedes require certain environmental conditions for laying eggs, hatching, and rearing young, so timely strengthening of management and protection is of great significance for ensuring the reproduction rate and the smooth completion of centipede hatching.
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2. Isolation of egg-bearing females
Centipedes require a quiet environment for laying eggs and hatching. If disturbed, females often eat the eggs, or even eat the young. According to observations, in the same rearing pool, the egg-laying times of females are very inconsistent. The activities of females that have not yet laid eggs and of males often interfere with and disrupt the normal progress of egg-laying and hatching, and some even snatch and eat the eggs. Therefore, before females lay eggs, they should be reared in separate jars, or isolated within a large rearing pool using glass pieces, bottomless glass cups, tin cans, or tiles.
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3. Strengthen feeding before laying to increase nutrition
During hatching, centipedes do not eat or drink water, relying on consuming their own nutrients to sustain activity. Before laying eggs, females have the habit of consuming large amounts of food to store nutrients. At this time, the amount of feeding should be increased, and attention should be paid to adjusting the types of food to encourage females to eat more and increase nutrition before hatching.
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4. Monitoring during the hatching period
During the period when centipedes brood eggs and rear young, they have certain reactions to disturbance, vibration, strong light, and loud sounds. Therefore, the rearing room must be chosen as a quiet, dark place. It is best to install red light lamps indoors and use cloth or bamboo blinds to cover the windows to prevent strong light exposure. The hatching jars in the room should be set up in advance, and once eggs are laid, they should not be moved easily. Observers should be careful and gentle, not casually moving the covering glass pieces (tiles), and should not shine flashlights on them.
No feeding is needed during the hatching period, but since this period coincides with midsummer, if the humidity in the hatching nest is too low, it will affect the normal development of the embryos, so water should be added to the hatching jar at the appropriate time. When adding water, it should be poured slowly along the jar wall so that the inner wall around the hatching nest is slightly moist. Do not sprinkle water directly into the nest, and do not make the humidity inside the nest too high.
After hatching is completed, although the young centipedes temporarily cluster together in groups, they can also move and forage independently. At this time, the females also gradually leave the hatching nest to move about independently. Because centipedes have the phenomenon of competing for food and the large eating the small, the females should be removed promptly or the young should be separated for rearing.
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5. Individual growth pattern
Under artificial feeding conditions, centipedes can reach the standard for small medicinal-grade specimens (8 cm) in body length within two years, and after two years they approach the standard for large specimens. Therefore, it can be inferred that artificial rearing of centipedes, from the egg-laying and hatching of captured adult centipedes to being supplied for medicinal use, requires 2-3 years.
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1. Controlled rearing
For controlled rearing of centipedes, various forms such as rearing pools, rearing jars, and rearing tanks can be used, but all should be escape-proof. The walls of the rearing pool can be made of glass or plastic sheeting, or water trenches can be built around the perimeter to prevent centipedes from escaping.
In artificial centipede breeding, ensuring the survival rate of centipede offspring is a very important task. Centipedes require certain environmental conditions for laying eggs, hatching, and rearing young, so timely strengthening of management and protection is of great significance for ensuring the reproduction rate and the smooth completion of centipede hatching.
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2. Isolation of egg-bearing females
Centipedes require a quiet environment for laying eggs and hatching. If disturbed, females often eat the eggs, or even eat the young. According to observations, in the same rearing pool, the egg-laying times of females are very inconsistent. The activities of females that have not yet laid eggs and of males often interfere with and disrupt the normal progress of egg-laying and hatching, and some even snatch and eat the eggs. Therefore, before females lay eggs, they should be reared in separate jars, or isolated within a large rearing pool using glass pieces, bottomless glass cups, tin cans, or tiles.
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3. Strengthen feeding before laying to increase nutrition
During hatching, centipedes do not eat or drink water, relying on consuming their own nutrients to sustain activity. Before laying eggs, females have the habit of consuming large amounts of food to store nutrients. At this time, the amount of feeding should be increased, and attention should be paid to adjusting the types of food to encourage females to eat more and increase nutrition before hatching.
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4. Monitoring during the hatching period
During the period when centipedes brood eggs and rear young, they have certain reactions to disturbance, vibration, strong light, and loud sounds. Therefore, the rearing room must be chosen as a quiet, dark place. It is best to install red light lamps indoors and use cloth or bamboo blinds to cover the windows to prevent strong light exposure. The hatching jars in the room should be set up in advance, and once eggs are laid, they should not be moved easily. Observers should be careful and gentle, not casually moving the covering glass pieces (tiles), and should not shine flashlights on them.
No feeding is needed during the hatching period, but since this period coincides with midsummer, if the humidity in the hatching nest is too low, it will affect the normal development of the embryos, so water should be added to the hatching jar at the appropriate time. When adding water, it should be poured slowly along the jar wall so that the inner wall around the hatching nest is slightly moist. Do not sprinkle water directly into the nest, and do not make the humidity inside the nest too high.
After hatching is completed, although the young centipedes temporarily cluster together in groups, they can also move and forage independently. At this time, the females also gradually leave the hatching nest to move about independently. Because centipedes have the phenomenon of competing for food and the large eating the small, the females should be removed promptly or the young should be separated for rearing.
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5. Individual growth pattern
Under artificial feeding conditions, centipedes can reach the standard for small medicinal-grade specimens (8 cm) in body length within two years, and after two years they approach the standard for large specimens. Therefore, it can be inferred that artificial rearing of centipedes, from the egg-laying and hatching of captured adult centipedes to being supplied for medicinal use, requires 2-3 years.