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What conditions are needed to artificially cultivate cicadas?

First of all, there must be trees. It is best to choose a forest land with high terrain, flatness, deep soil, and no waterlogging. It is best to choose healthy tree species that are more than three years old, with a well-developed root system and lush growth, and more sap. For example, willow trees, peach and plum trees, mountain slag, apple trees, pear trees, white wax trees, and tung trees are all tree species that cicadas like to live and feed on. All cicadas in the north of the Yangtze River, including Liaoning, are black cicadas. Its growth period is four full years. If there is mature technology, there is no risk, and it will not cause a large number of cicadas or cicadas to die. Because the juveniles live 1-2 meters underground throughout the entire stage, they will not be unearthed until they mature.

You can first visit the lead rock to see the results of other people's breeding, and then consider breeding yourself. After all, this is an emerging industry and the breeding technology is still being improved and perfected, and the risks are also very high.

How to breed cicadas?

Breeding method:

1. Breeding site: Breeding under forests, various fruit trees and timber trees can meet their growth needs.

2. Heating: In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, cicadas enter the heating period, and cicada eggs should be collected in time.

3. Post-egg processing: After collecting the branches with cicada eggs, remove the dry leaves, cut off the two ends, tie them into a bundle, spread a layer of sand on the bottom of a large washing basin, put the bundled branches upright in the basin, and keep the temperature between 28 and 34 degrees.

4. Bury after hatching: When 20% of the larvae have hatched, they should be buried. Choose an area with many soft hairy roots so that the larvae can absorb nutrients from the roots.

5. Sowing: Dig the pit into strips, the depth should be mainly to the hairy roots, put the branches with hatched larvae into the pits, and be gentle when returning the soil. Cicadas will become adults 15 to 18 months from the date of sowing, and can be harvested in time.

Additional information:

1. Seed source acquisition

Primary seed sources can be collected naturally in the field. Eggs, nymphs, and adults can all be collected as seed sources. All stages of insects can be collected from July to September; August to September is the best season for collecting nymphs, and September is the best time to collect cicada egg branches. Cicadas can be collected all year round.

To collect eggs, you can choose an ideal place with dense trees and many cicadas. Use fruit branch shears or a long pole with a hook on the top to gently remove the 1-2 year old thin citrus branches that have died from the cicadas' eggs.

Any one side of the flattened stem with an incomplete surface and a large number of milky white long oval eggs embedded in the wood under the skin is a cicada egg. Cut off the excess eggless stems above the egg-laying nest, leave 10-15cm of eggless branches below the egg-laying nest, tie about 50 branches into a small bundle, and put them in a plastic bag for later use.

2. Breeding

The breeding objects are newly hatched nymphs and eggs that are about to hatch. The branches with eggs collected directly from the wild or the seed source site are concentrated indoors to promote hatching. Hatching method: In a 70cm×40cm×20cm plastic box, spread 5~10cm thick fine sand on the bottom, and place the egg branches in bundles vertically or horizontally on it.

Use a small sprayer to spray mist water continuously to keep the air around the branches with eggs high humidity, so that excess water droplets are adsorbed in the fine sand at the bottom. The breeding time is generally from September to October (two-year eggs) or from June to July (single-year eggs).

Dig regular narrow trenches about 30-50cm deep, such as circular, square, triangular, parallel or radial, under the host plant tree at the breeding site, about 1m away from the base of the tree trunk. The purpose is to facilitate future digging and harvesting. After planting, cover the soil and compact it, and keep records of the time, quantity, planting trench shape and depth.

References Sources:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Golden Cicada

Artificial breeding of cicadas has the following seven major advantages:

(1) Extensive resources. There are many trees such as poplars and tung trees in rural areas, as well as a large number of fruit trees such as apples, pears, and hawthorns. The rapid growth of cicadas can be achieved without affecting the growth of trees.

(2) Purchase of seed sources:

Golden cicada eggs can be purchased from professional breeding farms or collected by yourself.

(3) Shortened breeding time: The breeding time for indoor ponds and plastic greenhouses is 18 months, while it can be sold after one and a half years of semi-natural breeding in the field.

(4) There is no need for feeding or keeping cicada eggs: cicada eggs will suck the sap from tree roots while they are buried in the soil.

(5) High economic benefits: There are 2,000 eggs per square meter, and each egg costs 0.1-0.2 yuan, so the income per square meter is 200-400 yuan. If the breeding does not affect the growth of crops on the ground, only 50 square meters of breeding space is needed per mu, and the income will be more than 10,000 yuan.

(6) The product is popular: restaurants, hotels, and refrigerated food factories of all sizes come to order the product.

(7) Simple processing: It only needs to be cleaned, soaked, fried or steamed to be produced in small batches and sold on the market. Further processing can make it into canned food.

Therefore, artificially breeding cicadas and selling them as commodities is undoubtedly a rare way to get rich in rural areas with small investment, saving labor time, no cost, high benefits and no risk.