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What do centipedes eat?

Centipedes eat caterpillars, spiders, and cockroaches.

Centipedes like to live during the day, lurking in dark corners such as brick and stone crevices, at the base of walls, and in piles of leaves, weeds, and rotten wood. They come out at night to look for caterpillars, spiders, cockroaches, etc.

When the weather turns cold in October, centipedes will burrow into the soil on the leeward and sunny slopes and hibernate in the soil about 12 cm below the ground until the Waking of Insects of the following year. As the weather warms up, they will start to move around and look for food again.

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Centipedes have a strong ability to drill cracks. They often use their sensitive antennae and flat head plates to probe cracks, and can pass through or live in most cracks in rocks and land. If the density is too high or there are too many disturbances, they may fight each other and die.

However, under artificial breeding conditions, when there is sufficient food and water, dozens of centipedes can live together. Centipedes are typical carnivorous animals, with ferocious sexuality and a wide range of food, especially insects. In early spring when food is scarce, they can also eat a small amount of grass and young shoots of moss.

Centipedes like to eat insects, such as caterpillars, spiders and cockroaches. Centipedes are typical carnivorous animals with fierce temperaments and a wide range of food. When food is scarce in early spring, they can also eat a small amount of slippery grass and young shoots of moss.

Centipedes usually come out to feed at night. From nightfall to about 11:00 a.m. is the prime time for centipedes to feed. During this time, insects and mollusks reduce or stop their activities due to darkness, and are less susceptible to invasion by external enemies, making them easy to catch. The centipede's hunting range is not large, because it can only go out for a few hours, and the centipede's movement speed is not fast. Some centipedes even stay in place waiting for the arrival of small insects. Therefore, the hunting range is only a few square meters or dozens of square meters.

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Centipedes like a humid living environment. Therefore, in order to reduce the chance of centipedes staying indoors, the room should be kept dry and windows should be opened for ventilation. If it is not possible to remove moisture through doors and windows, use desiccant such as quicklime for dehumidification, or use a benchtop air dryer to remove moisture by beating wax.

Centipedes often enter the house through cracks in doors, windows, and walls. Centipedes are nocturnal creatures, so doors and windows should be kept tightly closed at night. Especially in the hot summer, many people open doors and windows at night to cool off, which can easily lead to centipedes entering the house. If there are cracks in the wall, they must be blocked.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Centipede

Centipedes are typical carnivorous animals with fierce nature. They eat a wide range of food, especially insects. When food is scarce in early spring, they can also eat a small amount of grass and young shoots of moss.

Centipedes are afraid of sunlight and hide during the day and come out at night. They like to live in dark, warm, rain-proof and well-ventilated places. Centipedes like to live in hilly areas and sandy areas. During the day, they hide in the cracks of bricks and stones, corners of walls, and dark corners of piles of leaves, weeds, and rotten wood. They come out at night to eat caterpillars, spiders, cockroaches, etc.

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Centipede's life habits:

1. Like to live in groups: Centipedes have the habit of living together, big and small. Centipedes in the same group can live in harmony and rarely fight and kill each other. If the habitat is too small and there are too many centipedes, the old centipedes will automatically go away and find another habitat.

2. Centipedes are timid and easily frightened. If they are slightly frightened, they will stop eating, flee from their nests, or curl up motionless. Female centipedes that are laying eggs will immediately stop laying eggs, while centipedes that are incubating eggs will, contrary to their normal behavior, eat the eggs if frightened.

3. They like dark and humid places. Wild centipedes mostly live on hillsides, fields, roadsides, weedy places, or in firewood piles and gaps between roof tiles. They also often live in dark corners such as kitchen corners and town edges. Centipede footprints are also often seen under the bricks and tiles around pig pens and chicken coops.

The animal food of centipedes is mainly small insects, small spiders and some other myriapods, which can account for 70% to 80% of the food caught in the wild, and sometimes even higher. They mainly prey on insect larvae, rather than directly preying on adults.

Specifically, animal feed includes the following types: the first choice of food is small spiders; the second is small grasshoppers, small earthworms, nymphs of earthworms, and woodlice; and the third is the larvae of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.

In the absence of animal feed, centipedes can occasionally eat some plant feed. Centipedes have high requirements for plant feed and generally only eat some juicy green and tender plants, such as young green vegetables. In the absence of animal feed and high-quality plant feed, centipedes can live for 3 months by eating humus soil.

Under the conditions of artificial breeding, people can take advantage of the fact that centipedes have a wide range of feed requirements. They can prepare animal feed or provide some plant feed. Adapting measures to local conditions is a good way to develop centipede feed.

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How centipedes eat

Centipedes have the same activity pattern as scorpions, hiding during the day and coming out at night. Generally, centipedes come out to feed at night, and the golden feeding time is from nightfall to about 11 o'clock in the morning. Because during this time, insects and mollusks reduce or stop their activities due to darkness, they are less sensitive to external enemies and are easy to catch.

Centipedes are not very aggressive when hunting, but their hunting methods are quite clever. When they find an insect that is stationary, they approach the target stealthily, immediately clamp the small animal with their poison hooks, poison it to death, and then eat it. When they feed, they usually do so outside their habitats, and sometimes bring some back to their habitats to continue feeding.

The centipede's hunting range is not large, because it can only go out for a few hours, and the centipede's movement speed is not fast. Some of them will wait for the arrival of small insects. Therefore, the hunting range is only a few square meters or dozens of square meters.

What do centipedes mainly eat?

The animal feed that centipedes like to eat includes: earthworms, woodlice, spiders, dragonflies, earthworms, mantises, locusts, crickets, oil gourds, mole crickets, cicadas, backworms, wasps, various fish, frogs, geckos, mutton, beef, rabbit meat, eggs, chicken, sparrow meat, snake meat, big-headed golden flies, centipedes, silkworm pupae, goat milk, cow milk, etc. When animal feed is in short supply, they also eat plant feed.

For artificially bred centipedes, it is impossible for us to supply a large number of small animals and insects. They can mainly be fed with plant-based foods such as noodles and rice, supplemented with various vegetables such as eggplants, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, and appropriate amounts of meat foods such as fish, frogs, dead pigs, dead chickens, and various animal offal to fully meet their nutritional needs.

Centipede's life habits:

1. Centipedes like to live in groups and are timid and afraid of being frightened. Centipedes in the same group can live in harmony and rarely fight or kill each other. If the habitat is too small and there are too many centipedes, the old centipedes will automatically leave and find another habitat.

2. They like dark and humid environments, but are afraid of light and water. Wild centipedes mostly live on hillsides, fields, roadsides, weedy areas, or in firewood piles and gaps between roof tiles. They also often live in dark corners such as kitchen corners. Centipede footprints are often seen under bricks and tiles around pig houses and chicken coops.

3. They roost in their nests during the day and crawl out at night to move around, forage for food and mate. The peak activity period for centipedes is from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. They usually return to their nests to rest before 4 a.m., and it is difficult to see centipedes after daybreak.

Centipedes have poor eyesight and cannot see things that are a little far away, so it is difficult for them to find food and defend themselves from enemies. They only rely on a pair of slender tentacles that extend forward to find their way. They also rely on their tentacles to catch prey and find food at night.