CATDOLL : CATDOLL: It takes several years to breed cicadas (It takes several years to breed cicadas)

1. How old are the trees that can be used to grow cicadas?

You can raise cicadas after more than three years.

For breeding cicadas, choose poplar, tung, willow and various fruit trees that are more than three years old. It is not easy to breed cicadas in trees with bitter sap. The breeding density should be reasonable according to the size of the tree. The amount of seeds used for 3-4 year old trees, 5-6 year old trees, and 6-10 year old trees is different. Cicadas are not very demanding on land. Sandy soil and neutral soil are better. Pay attention to watering when the land is dry. The land for breeding cicadas should not be low-lying. Pay attention to drainage when it rains heavily.

2. What is the cicada breeding cycle?

It takes about 3-4 years for cicadas to crawl out of the ground. 1. Egg stage: After overwintering, cicadas hatch around June. When they find a suitable place, they will dig a hole, drill into the ground, and suck juice for a living.

2. Nymphs: They generally live in the soil for about 3-5 years and molt once every June to September.

3. Adult: After the nymphs mature, they drill out of the ground and begin to eclode. After 20 days of eclosion, they begin to mate and lay eggs.

3. How many years will it take to produce results from cicada breeding?

It takes three years from cicada egg laying to harvesting cicada pupae. The eggs are collected in autumn, usually around the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the larvae will hatch in about fifteen days. At this time, you can see some larvae crawling up and down on the branches. When about 20% of the larvae have hatched, they should be buried.

4. How many years does it take for cicada monkey seedlings to bear fruit?

1. The breeding cycle of cicada monkeys is about 3-4 years.

2. It takes about 2 years for the eggs to develop into mature nymphs (cicada monkeys). After the eggs overwinter, they begin to hatch and grow in June of the first year. They weigh only about 1g that year and are milky white overall. In the second year, the weight increases to about 3g, the pigmentation of the whole body deepens, and the eyes are pink. In the third year, the nymphs are mature, weighing 4.5-5g, with brown body color and dark gray eyes. Later, the nymphs drill out of the ground, climb up weeds and trees, and eventually stay on branches and trees, molting and emerging into adults, and begin to lay eggs 20 days after emergence.

5. How long does it take to artificially breed cicada monkeys?

The time is almost the same as that of wild cicadas. It takes five years for wild cicadas to molt from eggs to become cicadas. The difference is that the survival rate of wild cicadas is lower because they have too many natural enemies and are affected by natural disasters. However, artificially bred cicadas have no natural enemies and no natural disasters, so the growth time is the same, but the survival rate is lower in wild ones and higher in artificially bred ones.