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Best way to plant golden cicada

Cicadas are raised under forests. Their growth needs can be met under various fruit trees and timber trees. It is generally difficult to interplant crops under trees that are more than three years old. Cicada breeding makes use of the space under these trees, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. The entire breeding process does not require feeding management, epidemic prevention, etc., and does not occupy labor. It is a good project for farmers to engage in the tertiary industry.

Egg collection: Egg collection is done in autumn after the cicadas lay eggs, usually around the seventh month of the lunar calendar. The cicadas use the small thorns on their tails to pierce the tender branches of one-year-old trees and lay their eggs inside the branches, mostly on juicy branches such as fruit trees. After laying eggs, the branches will dry up, so most branches with green lower ends and dry tips have cicada eggs.

Post-harvest processing: After collecting the branches with cicada eggs, remove the dry leaves, cut off the two ends, bundle thirty branches into a bundle, spread a layer of sand on the bottom of a large washing basin, and put the bundled branches upright in the basin. Keep the temperature at 28-34 degrees and the humidity moist. Spray it when it is dry. Use a sprayer to spray the branches until they are thoroughly wet.

Hatching: The larvae will hatch in about 15 days. At this time, you will see some larvae crawling up and down on the branches. When about 20% of the larvae have hatched, they should be buried. The burial pit should be in an area with many fine and soft hairy roots so that the larvae can absorb nutrients from the roots. It is best to choose a plot where honeysuckle is planted.

Sowing: Dig a pit into a strip shape, the depth should be mainly to the hairy roots, and the width should be one shovel. Put the branches with hatched larvae into the pit along the way, and the larvae will hug the plant roots by themselves. Be gentle and slow when returning the soil. Do not step on the soil after returning it, and do not water it to ensure ventilation.

Harvesting: If there are trees, wrap them with transparent tape at a distance of one meter to prevent the cicadas from climbing high to metamorphose. Cicadas become adults 15-18 months after sowing.

Tips: Cicada eggs are collected mainly from wax branches and fruit tree branches. Cicada egg larvae feed on the juice of plant roots, so it is best to choose a multi-root area when burying. Each branch contains 100-400 cicada eggs, so 500-800 branches per acre are appropriate to ensure the survival rate. Using this method to grow golden cicadas can advance the original growth period of 3-15 years to 18 months, the incubation period from the original one year to about 35 days, and the survival rate from the original 6% to about 30%-60%.