CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to trap centipedes in large numbers and what to do if you are bitten by a centipede

How to trap centipedes in large numbers and what to do if you are bitten by a centipede

In a damp place where centipedes often appear, dig a long cross-shaped pit with a width of about 50-60cm and a depth of about 15-20cm. The length depends on the specific situation. Then pile various feces, humus soil, weeds, chicken blood, chicken feathers, internal organs, garbage, and rotten grass in the cross-shaped pit, and then cover it with branches, stones or bricks and tiles. When centipedes are lured in, catch them.

1. How to trap centipedes in large quantities

1. Trapping method

(1) Dig a cross-shaped pit in a damp place where centipedes often appear. The width is about 50-60 cm and the depth is about 15-20 cm. The length depends on the specific situation. Then pile various materials such as manure, humus soil, weeds, chicken blood, chicken feathers, internal organs, garbage, rotten grass, etc. in the cross-shaped pit.

(2) Cover the pit with branches, stones or bricks and tiles.

(3) Wait for about 3-4 days, then go to the long pit and capture the centipedes that have been lured there.

2. Capture time

(1) Catching wild centipedes is usually done in late spring and early summer, especially during the period from Jingzhe to Qingming.

(2) After the beginning of summer, most female centipedes hide in secluded places to lay eggs and molt, making them difficult to catch. Also, after the beginning of summer, rainfall gradually increases, making it difficult to dry the captured centipedes. They are prone to rot and have thin, poor quality flesh.

2. What to do if you are bitten by a centipede

1. Use soapy water, baking soda water, 3% ammonia water or lime water and other alkaline solutions to clean the wound to neutralize the acidic venom, and then decide whether to go to the hospital for treatment based on the situation.

2. Use Houttuynia cordata, lentil leaves, seven-leaf lily, lobelia, purslane, fresh taro tips, sweet potatoes or dandelions, mash them and apply them to the wound.

3. Prepare 1-2 cloves of garlic, peel and mash them, then add appropriate amount of vinegar and apply to the wound.

4. Prepare 30g of Houttuynia cordata, 30g of mulberry leaves, and 40g of dandelion, mash them and apply them to the wound.

5. Prepare 20g licorice and 20g realgar, grind them into powder, add appropriate amount of vegetable oil, mix into a paste, and apply to the wound.

6. Hold the rooster upside down, collect the rooster's saliva, and apply it on the wound.

How to catch centipedes?

Centipedes like dark and damp 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. Centipede footprints are also often seen under the tiles around pig sheds and chicken coops.

Centipedes hibernate at -7℃, so it is best to catch them in spring and summer. Use a bamboo stick with two pointed ends to catch them. Press the centipede's head with both hands, insert one end of the bamboo stick into its head, and the other end into its tail. The centipede cannot withstand the tension of the bamboo stick and will not move at all.

Centipedes like to hide during the day and come out at night. They live in their nests during the day and come out at night. The peak of centipede activity is from 8 to 12 o'clock in the evening. Generally, they return to their nests to rest before 4 o'clock in the morning. It is difficult to see centipedes after dawn.

Centipedes belong to the class Myriapoda. The first pair of legs are hook-shaped and sharp. The hook ends have poison glands, which are generally called palatine teeth, claws or poison limbs, which can discharge poison. After being bitten by a centipede, its poison glands secrete a large amount of venom, which is injected into the subcutaneous tissue of the bitten person through the poison glands of the palatine teeth, causing poisoning.

Centipedes are typical carnivores with fierce temperaments, wide-ranging food, and great selectivity. They like to eat small animals such as various insects, and sometimes they can kill animals much larger than themselves with their jaws that can shoot venom. When foraging, centipedes always use their sensitive antennae to swing forward like whips to catch food. Once their antennae touch the prey, they quickly pounce on it, clamp the prey tightly with the several feet in the front of their bodies and the jaws with venom glands, bite through the epidermis, eat all the organs in its body, and leave only the hard shell. Centipedes have a large appetite and can eat a gecko that is almost the same weight as their body at a time. However, centipedes eat slowly, and it takes about 2 hours to eat a gecko (color picture 16). We put a beetle next to a centipede. When the centipede's antennae touched the beetle, it pounced forward quickly and clamped the beetle with its jaws and legs. It then bit through the beetle's soft parts such as the neck and abdomen. The sound of it biting the beetle's skin could be clearly heard from 1 meter away. Although the beetle resisted several times, it could not escape the centipede's clutches and was immediately paralyzed and half dead. Afterwards, the centipede ate its internal organs, soft tissues and juices from the place it bit. In about a quarter of an hour, the beetle was completely eaten up, leaving only a shell.

Centipedes kill each other by biting each other and poisoning each other. According to our observation, centipedes usually bite the softer parts of the third to tenth segments under the head and neck, and some may bite the fifteenth segment. The reason why centipedes bite the above parts is mainly to bite through the abdominal cavity so as to suck out its internal organs.

How to catch wild centipedes. Centipedes hide during the day and come out at night. There are also centipedes that crawl out of their holes during the day, but there are not many of them, so they must be caught at night. The method of catching centipedes is relatively simple. You only need to prepare a flashlight, a bamboo clip, and a container with a very smooth inner wall to hold the centipedes to prevent the captured centipedes from escaping. The catcher should wear tight shoes and long socks to prevent being bitten by poisonous insects when walking in the mountains at night. After these preparations are made, go to the place where centipedes often appear at night and shine the flashlight. After the centipedes are illuminated, they will lie still because they are afraid of light. At this time, use the bamboo clip to gently clamp the back of their body and put them in the container.

Another way to catch centipedes is to dig a long trench where centipedes often live, put chicken feathers, bones, horse manure, garbage, broken bricks and other things in the trench, and cover them with a layer of loose soil. When centipedes smell the fishy smell, they will go to the trench to find food, lay eggs and reproduce. After 20 days, you can turn the trench over to catch them, and then add new chicken feathers, bones, garbage, etc. to the trench, cover it with a layer of loose soil, and lure the centipedes into the trench to be caught. In autumn, you can use this method to catch wild centipedes in the forest. After catching wild centipedes, you should choose centipedes with red heads, wide bodies, long bodies, good body luster and no damage for breeding. Those with green heads, black heads and small bodies are not suitable for breeding.

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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Centipedes are usually caught in late spring and early summer, especially between the Waking of Insects and the Qingming Festival, which is a good time to catch them. 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. 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 catch centipedes, you can follow the characteristics of their activities. The methods are as follows: ① Centipedes are carnivorous animals. 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 find centipedes in their hiding places. When you find centipedes, pick them up with bamboo clips or tweezers and put them in a prepared bamboo basket or cloth bag. ② Choose a place where centipedes hide, use a pickaxe or a nail rake to dig up the soil layer, lift up stones and bricks, and catch centipedes using the above methods when you find them. ③ Dig a nest to trap them. 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, they can be caught.

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.

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.