CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Can cicadas be raised artificially? How?

Yes! Definitely! Here are some information that I hope will help you. Cicadas are also called cicadas, and cicada monkeys are also called cicada monkeys or cicada turtles. They are the larvae of cicadas, light red, and good at crawling. They are mostly produced in Anhui, Shandong, and Henan. Due to their considerable market value, most of the products on the market are artificially cultivated. There are very few wild cicada monkeys. Due to insufficient growth years (wild products are 3-7 years old, and cultivated products are 1.5-2.2 years old), some breeders even use some chemical agents, which leads to a decrease in the content of various elements in the body, weakening its nutritional and medicinal value. Suggestion: When buying, don't pursue large size and good color. In fact, a single high-quality cicada monkey weighs about 4-4.5 grams. It is slightly dark yellow, not golden yellow. Cicada monkeys spend the first two or three years of their lives underground, or perhaps longer. During this time, they suck liquid from the roots of trees. Then one day they break out of the ground and find a tree to climb up with their instincts of survival. After several years of slow growth, the cicada crawls out of the ground as a reservoir of energy. Its front paws, which it uses for digging, can also be used for climbing. When a black crack appears on the cicada's back, the molting process begins. Molting is controlled by a hormone. The cicada's front legs are hooked so that when the adult emerges from the empty shell, it can hang firmly on the tree. It is very important that the cicada faces the tree vertically. This is for the normal development of the adult's wings, otherwise the wings will develop deformed. The cicada uses the pupa shell as a base and slowly frees itself, like crawling out of a suit of armor. The whole process takes about an hour. When the cicada's upper body is free, it hangs upside down again to spread its wings. At this stage, the cicada's wings are very soft and they are spread out through the body fluid tubes in them. The body fluid tubes are used to open the wings due to the pressure of the liquid. When the liquid is pumped back into the cicada's body, the spread wings have become hard. If a cicada is disturbed while its wings are unfolding, it will be disabled for life and may not be able to fly at all. The tiny larvae hatch from the eggs and stay on the branches. The autumn wind blows them to the ground. Once they reach the ground, they immediately look for soft soil and drill down to the roots of the trees, sucking the sap of the roots to survive. It takes two to three years at least, and more than ten years at most. From larva to adult, it has to go through five moltings, four of which are done underground, and the last one is to drill out of the soil and climb up the tree to shed the dry light yellow shell (this is the cicada shell) to become an adult. It can be seen that cicadas are insects that cannot see the sky. Although they have a long lifespan, they rarely live in the sun and spend almost their entire lives underground in the dark. If these are of no help, then you can go to the breeding farm to investigate and ask experts, go to the library more often, and go to the following in person. I heard that they appear more in Shandong. I wonder if it is true?