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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, and spread a layer of sand at the bottom of a large washing basin...

What are the methods for raising cicadas?

Feeding method

(I) To raise cicadas, you should first provide a forest with sufficient nutrients. To cultivate a forest, you should first cultivate broad-leaved seedlings. You can plant broad-leaved trees such as willows, poplars, and elms. The trunks should be shorter and covered with nylon nets. In summer, the collected adults are placed on the trees in the net room to lay eggs, and then the eggs are collected; in autumn, the branches with cicada eggs are also buried at the roots of the trees in the net room. You can also combine the planting of fruit trees to raise cicadas. For example, you can plant 300-660 square meters of peach trees, set the trunks lower, surround the peach orchard with welded nets, and cover the top with nylon nets. Release the adult cicadas in the peach orchard and bury cicada eggs at the roots of the peach trees.

(II) Feeding and management: For the growth and reproduction of cicadas, high-quality feed should be provided first. Such as poplar, willow, elm or various fruit trees. Root and tuber plants, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and yams, should also be intercropped to provide feed for cicadas and larvae. Provide good environmental conditions. The depth of cicada eggs is 30-50 cm, and they must be buried in sunny, frost-proof, soft, fertile, pollution-free, and humidity-appropriate places. In winter, wheat straw, rice straw, corn stalks, etc. should be covered to maintain ground temperature. Construct production sites. In addition to naturally collecting cicada eggs, large net rooms can be built to provide space for adult cicadas to lay eggs, and prevent adult cicadas from escaping and being preyed on by enemies. Fruit trees in abandoned orchards can be used, or seedlings can be planted in abandoned orchards, and fences can be erected around them with cement columns or wooden poles, surrounded by wire mesh, and nylon mesh on the top. The adults that have emerged or been harvested mate and lay eggs in the net room, gradually forming a seed source area, and there is no need to collect seed eggs from the wild.