CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Tips for Catching Centipedes at Night

1. Buy pyrethrin (may be sold in drugstores), sprinkle some in places where centipedes often appear, and also sprinkle some at the entrance of the sewer to kill them; 2. Buy insecticide tablets and fumigate them; sprinkle realgar wine into the sewer; 4. Raise a rooster to catch centipedes. 5. Remove creepers and other plants outside the window

6. Sprinkle lime powder at doors, windows and other places where centipedes may crawl in, because centipedes like humid environments.

7. Fumigating the House with Mugwort

8. There are two kinds of drugs that are effective against centipedes, realgar water or diluted solution of DDT. After spraying them on the floor and corners of the house, close the door for at least half a day. The effect is said to be good.

The life characteristics of centipedes 1. Habitat Centipedes are afraid of sunlight, hide during the day and come out at night. They like to live in dark, warm, rain-proof and well-ventilated places. They live in low mountain areas with more soil and less soil. Although they are distributed in plains, the number is small. Centipedes have a strong ability to drill cracks. They often use their sensitive antennae and flat head plates to test the cracks. Most of the cracks in rocks and land can pass through or live. When 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 enough bait and drinking water, dozens of them can live together. 2. Activities and diet Centipedes are typical carnivorous animals, fierce in nature, with a wide range of food, especially small insects. They have jaws that can shoot venom and can even kill animals larger than themselves. There are also phenomena of poisoning and death among the same species. The insects that centipedes eat include crickets, locusts, beetles, cicadas, grasshoppers, and various flies and bees. They can even eat spiders, earthworms, snails, and frogs, mice, sparrows, lizards, and snakes that are much larger than their bodies. When food is scarce in early spring, they can also eat a small amount of grass and young shoots of moss. When they are raised artificially, some are fed with loaches, fresh fish, frogs, shrimps, crabs, etc., but they require fresh food and will not eat anything that is slightly rotten.

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It is the right time to catch wild centipedes. Centipedes, also known as Tianlong, Baizu, and Centipede, are the dried bodies of the Scolopendra subspinata of the Scolopendra family. This product is pungent, warm, and poisonous. It has the effects of dispelling wind and calming the nerves, detoxifying and dispersing knots, and dredging meridians to relieve pain. It is a traditional animal product medicinal material in my country. Centipedes are mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Henan, and Guangxi provinces. It is currently in the season for catching and processing. The catching method is introduced as follows: Living habits Centipedes like to live in hilly areas and sandy areas. During the day, they lurk in the gaps between bricks and stones, at the foot of the wall, and in dark corners of piles of leaves, weeds, and rotten wood. They come out at night to eat green worms, spiders, cockroaches, etc. Generally, when the weather turns cold in October, they drill into the soil on the leeward and sunny slopes, lurk in the soil about 12 cm deep from the ground to hibernate until the next year after the Waking of Insects (early March), and then move around to find food as the weather warms up. Capture method: Centipedes are usually captured in late spring and early summer, especially between the time of Jingzhe and Qingming, which is better. If it is after the "beginning of summer", most females will hide in secluded places to lay eggs and molt, which makes it difficult to capture. Moreover, after the beginning of summer, there is more rain, and the captured centipedes are difficult to dry, which makes them easy to be infested with insects and rot, and the meat is thin and of poor quality. To capture centipedes, you can do it according to their activity characteristics. The method is: ① Centipedes are carnivorous animals, and their foraging time is from 8 pm to 3 am the next day. At this time, you can use a flashlight or a windproof oil lamp to search for centipedes in their hiding places. If you find centipedes, pick them up with bamboo clips or tweezers and put them in the prepared bamboo basket or cloth bag. ② Choose a place where centipedes hide, use a pointed hoe or a nail rake to dig the soil layer, lift up stones and bricks, and catch centipedes using the above method. ③ Dig a nest to trap. In the habitat where centipedes often move, choose a damp mountain area around the beginning of spring, dig a "cross" shaped long pit, 1 to 2 meters long, 0.5 meters wide, and 15 to 20 cm deep, put chicken feathers, miscellaneous bones, horse manure or bird droppings and some rotten grass in it, cover it with branches, soil or bricks and tiles, and lure centipedes to crawl into the gaps. Check the next morning, and if there are centipedes entering the pit, they can be caught. Centipedes have venom. If you are accidentally stung by it during the capture process, you should squeeze the stinging area with your hands in time to prevent the venom from spreading to the subcutaneous tissue. Then apply 3% ammonia water or 5% to 10% baking soda water to the stinging area as soon as possible; or mash fresh mulberry leaves, dandelion leaves or onions, and apply or apply externally. Processing technology: The captured live centipedes are first scalded to death with boiling water, then the tails are cut off and the feces and urine are squeezed out. Then, a thin bamboo piece with the same length and width as the centipede is sharpened at both ends, one end is inserted under the centipede's jaw, and the other end is inserted into the tail. The centipede is straightened by the elastic force of the bamboo piece and placed in the sun to dry. If it is rainy, it can be dried with charcoal fire. After drying, take out the bamboo piece (do not break the head and tail, which will affect the quality), and place the centipedes of similar length with their heads facing one side, and clamp them horizontally at the dorsal and ventral parts with a thin bamboo piece about 1 cm wide, tie them into rows, 50 per row, and seal them in wooden boxes for storage. Quality requirements: The finished centipede should be dry and flat, with a reddish-brown head, a dark green back, shiny, and two protruding ridges, a brown-yellow abdomen, shrunken, yellow or reddish-brown legs, bent backwards, the last section is like a thorn, with cracks or hollows in the cross section, a slightly fishy smell, a pungent odor, a spicy and slightly salty taste, a complete head and tail, no broken, no insects, no mildew. Centipedes are divided into four grades: special grade, each more than 16.5cm long; first grade, each more than 13cm long; second grade, each more than 10cm long; third grade, each more than 6.6cm long

Centipedes are usually caught in late spring and early summer, especially between the Waking of Insects and Qingming Festival, when the quality is better. If it is after the "Beginning of Summer", most females will hide in secluded places to lay eggs and molt, making them more difficult to catch. Furthermore, after the Beginning of Summer, there is more rain, and the captured centipedes are difficult to dry, and are prone to worms and rot, and the meat is thin and of poor quality. 8 to 12 o'clock in the evening is the peak time for centipede activity. 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 the corners of kitchen walls. Centipede footprints are also often seen under the bricks and tiles around pig pens and chicken coops. To catch centipedes, you can follow the characteristics of their activities. The method is:

① Centipedes are carnivorous animals, and they forage for food between 8 pm and 3 am the next day. At this time, you can use a flashlight or a windproof oil lamp to search for centipedes in their hiding places. If you find centipedes, pick them up with bamboo clips or tweezers and put them in a prepared bamboo basket or cloth bag (generally speaking, the container should not be too small, and it is best to put some grass in the container to prevent the centipedes from killing each other.)

② Choose a place where centipedes hide and use a hoe or rake to dig up the soil, lift up stones and bricks, and catch centipedes using the above method when you find them.

③ Dig a nest to trap centipedes. In the habitat where centipedes often live, choose a damp mountain area around the beginning of spring, dig a "cross" shaped pit, 1 to 2 meters long, 0.5 meters wide, and 15 to 20 cm deep, put chicken feathers, miscellaneous bones, horse manure or bird droppings and some rotten grass in it, cover it with branches, soil or bricks and tiles, and lure centipedes to crawl into the gaps. Check the next morning, and if there are centipedes entering the pit, you can catch them

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Centipede, also known as Tianlong, Baizu, and Centipede, is the dried body of the Giant Scolopendra subspinata of the Scolopendra family. This product is pungent, warm, and poisonous. It has the effects of dispelling wind and calming the nerves, detoxifying and dispersing knots, and dredging meridians and relieving pain. It is a traditional animal product medicinal material in my country. Centipede is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Henan, Guangxi and other provinces and regions. It is currently in the season for catching and processing. The catching method is introduced as follows:

Living habits Centipedes like to live in hilly areas and sandy areas. During the day, they lurk in the cracks of bricks and stones, at the foot of the wall, and in dark corners of piles of leaves, weeds, and rotten wood. They come out at night to look for caterpillars, spiders, cockroaches, etc. Generally, when the weather turns cold in October, they drill into the soil on the leeward and sunny slopes, lurk in the soil about 12 cm deep from the ground to hibernate until the next year after the Waking of Insects (early March), and then move around to look for food as the weather warms up.

Capture Method: Centipedes are usually captured in late spring and early summer, especially between the Waking of Insects and the Qingming Festival. If it is after the Beginning of Summer, most females will hide in secluded places to lay eggs and molt, making it difficult to capture them. In addition, after the Beginning of Summer, there will be more rain, and the captured centipedes will be difficult to dry, and they will easily become infested with insects and rot, and the meat will be thin and of poor quality.

To capture centipedes, you can do it according to their activity characteristics. The methods are as follows: ① Centipedes are carnivorous animals, and they forage for food from 8 pm to 3 am the next day. At this time, you can use a flashlight or a windproof oil lamp to search for centipedes in their hiding places. If you find centipedes, pick them up with bamboo clips or tweezers and put them in the prepared bamboo basket or cloth bag. ② Choose a place where centipedes hide, use a pointed hoe or a nail rake to dig the soil layer, lift up stones and bricks, and catch centipedes using the above methods. ③ Dig a nest to trap. In the habitat where centipedes often move, choose a damp mountain area around the beginning of spring, dig a "cross" shaped long pit, 1 to 2 meters long, 0.5 meters wide, and 15 to 20 cm deep, put chicken feathers, miscellaneous bones, horse manure or bird droppings and some rotten grass in it, cover it with branches, soil or bricks and tiles, and lure centipedes to crawl into the gaps. Check the next morning, and if there are centipedes in the pit, you can catch them.

Centipedes have venom. If you are stung by one accidentally during the capture process, you should squeeze the sting with your hands in time to prevent the venom from spreading to the subcutaneous tissue. Then apply 3% ammonia water or 5% to 10% baking soda water to the sting as soon as possible; or mash fresh mulberry leaves, dandelion leaves or onions and apply them on the sting.