CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Will maggots die if they cannot transform into flies? Why?

1. Will maggots die if they cannot transform into flies? Why?

Yes, because the transformation of maggots into flies is a growth process. If they cannot transform into flies, the maggots will die when their life span expires.

Will die, natural selection, the fittest survive, the unfit are eliminated

If a maggot cannot transform into a fly, it will definitely die, because it cannot transform into another species. Since it cannot transform, it can only die.

Flies have a strong reproductive capacity, and the maggots in the flies' stomachs are actually fly eggs.

Flies belong to the family Sarcophagidae in the order Diptera. They reproduce by ovoviviparous means. Most species of flies lay maggots on carrion, feces or other decaying materials. A few species lay maggots on the wounds of mammals, and some species lay maggots on other insects, becoming parasites of these insects.

2. How to collect flies when raising maggots

NHK: Take a dead chicken, dead duck, or dead mouse, and throw it in an open area. Flies will naturally fly over and lay eggs. After the eggs hatch, there will be maggots. But when you raise them, they will smell bad. If they are fly maggots, use stale water to raise them. But when they ferment, they will smell bad. The young maggots will run around everywhere. If they are fruit fly maggots or adults, use thicker fruit peels to raise them. That should be enough.

3. How to raise maggots in summer

Fly maggot rearing technology

A. Living habits of houseflies Houseflies grow at room temperature of 20-30℃ and relative humidity of 60%-80%. After five days of development, the pupa changes from soft to hard, from beige, light brown, dark brown to black, and finally the adult fly breaks out of the shell from the front end of the pupa. The newly emerged adult fly can only crawl, not fly. One hour later, it spreads its wings and starts to eat and drink water. The adult fly is active during the day and stays still at night. After three days, it matures sexually, and the male and female begin to mate and lay eggs. The peak period of egg laying is 1-8 days old, and the egg laying ability is basically lost at 25 days old. The fly eggs hatch into maggots in half a day to a day. The maggots are cultivated in pig and chicken manure and generally become pupae on the fifth day. A generation of flies is about 28 days. Temperature and nutrients in maggot bait have a great influence on the growth and development of maggots. Generally, the room temperature is within the range of 20-30℃. The higher the temperature and nutrients, the faster the maggots grow and develop, and the larger the pupae become.

B. Breeding and reproduction of breeding flies Breeding flies should be raised in a fly house. The size of the breeding fly house can be built according to the needs, and it can also be modified from an old house. Glass and screens should be installed on the doors and windows to facilitate temperature adjustment, and fans should be installed on the walls to adjust the air. There should be heating equipment in the room to keep the temperature at 20-23℃ in winter and the relative humidity in the room at 60%-70%. Black curtains should be installed on the passage to prevent the breeding flies from escaping. There are breeding racks in the room, which are divided into upper, middle and lower layers. The breeding racks are made of iron or wood. Each layer of the rack is placed with a fly cage made of nylon gauze, which is 100 cm long and 80 cm high. The breeding flies are kept in the cages. Each cage can hold 12,000 breeding flies. Each cage is covered with cloth sleeves to facilitate feeding, water addition and egg collection. 12,000 adult flies are fed 20 grams of milk powder every day. The feed is placed in a feed basin with gauze padding, and the adult flies are allowed to stand on the gauze to suck. The feed and water are changed once a day. Put gauze in the basin, put wet wheat bran in the egg-laying basket for the fly species to lay eggs, collect eggs from the fly cage once a day and send them to the maggot room for breeding. The number of eggs laid by the fly species is the largest from 8 am to 3 pm every day, so the time for collecting eggs should be appropriate. Each batch of fly species is eliminated after 15-20 days of breeding, killed with hot water or steam, dried and ground into powder for livestock and poultry feed, and then replaced with a new batch. While producing fly maggots, the fly maggots pupate. There are two ways to make new fly species: one is to let them pupate naturally and wash out the pupae with water; the other is to take out the fly maggots and put them into dry powder when the maggots turn yellow after about 5-6 days of breeding to promote pupation.

C. Cultivation of fly maggots Fly maggots can be cultivated in a maggot breeding pool with a brick side height of 20 cm and an area of ​​1-3 square meters, or in a bamboo and wood frame and a plastic tray. A plastic tray with a diameter of 50 cm can breed 1.5 kg of maggots with only 3 kg of wheat bran. After 3-4 days of breeding, it can be collected and used. The source of maggot breeding feed is relatively wide, and the cost of different maggot feeds varies. You can choose reasonably. Wheat bran has high nutritional content and a slightly higher price. It is generally used to breed fly species. Cheap wine troughs, bean dregs, etc. can be used as commercial maggot feed. If wheat bran is used as maggot feed, generally 1 kg of wheat bran can produce 0.5 kg of fly maggots. When using it, it needs to be shaken with water. The dryness and wetness should be such that water comes out when squeezed by hand and it is suitable to fall apart when touched (water content 60%-65%). If semi-dry and wet materials such as wine troughs and bean dregs are used, it can be cultivated without adding water. Specific maggot breeding operation method: Pour the egg-laying and wheat bran materials into a plate, add wine trough, bean dregs or wheat bran and other maggot materials, and mix them evenly. Note that the fly eggs should not be exposed on the surface of the maggot material to avoid water loss and loss of vitality. The thickness of the maggot material is based on the fermentation temperature in the maggot material not higher than 40℃ and not lower than 20℃, generally 5-10 cm. In summer, when the temperature is high, the maggot material should be appropriately thinner, and in winter, when the temperature is low, the maggot material can be appropriately thicker. If human and animal feces are used, bacteria and parasites must be killed before use. The ratio of material to maggots is, for example, 3.5-4 kg of chicken manure generally produces 0.5 kg of fresh maggots. Regardless of which raw material is used to raise maggots, the dryness and humidity of the maggot material should be controlled at 60%-65%.

D. Collection of fly maggots: maggots are afraid of light and can be collected by scraping the surface of the drinking water in the maggot breeding pool with a dung shovel. The maggots will drill into the water and remove the dung on the surface. This method is repeated many times. Finally, a small amount of dung and a small amount of fly maggots are left. The separated fly maggots can be washed and directly used to feed livestock and poultry. They can be dried at 200-250℃ for 15-20 minutes and stored for later use.