CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What tree is best for planting golden cicadas? (What tree is best for planting golden cicadas? Picture)

1. Which fruit tree is best for raising cicadas?

Apple tree.

Golden cicadas like trees with soft wood and more sap. Suitable tree species for raising cicadas include willow, elm, poplar, ash, sycamore, Chinese toon, etc. Fruit trees include apricot, plum, apple, pear, etc.

2. What kind of trees do cicada monkeys like?

Fruit trees: apple trees, pear trees, mulberry trees, orange trees, grapefruit trees, walnut trees (on non-poor soil)

Wood: elm, willow, ash, sycamore, poplar, etc.

This technology comes from Zoucheng Lin Ge Golden Cicada Breeding

3. How to plant cicadas?

The first step in breeding treatment is to prepare a suitable living environment for the cicadas and pick fresh resin for them. Cicadas feed on tree sap.

Farming area

Cicadas are mainly bred under forests. Their growth needs can be met under various fruit trees and timber trees. There is no need to invest in building sites or houses, and there is no need to purchase other breeding facilities. Forest resources are abundant, and it is generally difficult to interplant crops under fruit trees and other trees that are more than three years old. Cicada breeding makes use of the space under trees and grows by sucking the sap from the roots. It can be said that this develops breeding without affecting the growth of trees, killing two birds with one stone. The entire breeding process does not require feeding management, epidemic prevention, etc., and does not occupy labor. If the technology and sales of cicada breeding are solved, cicada breeding is a good project for laid-off workers to develop re-employment and for farmers to engage in the tertiary industry.

Egg collection

The eggs are collected after the cicadas lay eggs in autumn, usually around the seventh month of the lunar calendar. The cicadas use the small thorns on their tails to pierce the tender branches of one-year-old trees and lay their eggs inside the branches, mostly on juicy branches such as fruit trees. After laying eggs, the branches will dry up, so most branches with green lower ends and dry tips have cicada eggs.

Post-harvest processing

After collecting the branches with cicada eggs, remove the dry leaves, cut off the two ends, and bundle thirty branches into a bundle. Spread a layer of sand on the bottom of a large washing basin, and put the bundled branches upright in the basin. Keep the temperature at 28-34 degrees and the humidity moist. Spray it when it is dry. Use a sprayer to spray the branches until they are thoroughly wet.

incubation

The larvae will hatch in about fifteen days. At this time, you will see some larvae crawling up and down on the branches. When about 20% of the larvae have hatched, they should be buried. The burial pit should be selected in an area with many fine and soft hair roots so that the larvae can absorb nutrients from the roots. It is best to choose a plot where honeysuckle is planted. In a plastic pot that is 10 cm long, 40 cm wide and 20 cm high, spread 5 to 10 cm thick fine dry sand on the bottom, place the egg branches in bundles vertically or horizontally on it, and constantly spray mist with a small sprayer to maintain high humidity in the air around the branches of the golden cicada eggs so that excess water droplets are absorbed in the fine sand at the bottom. During the incubation period, the hatching status of the golden cicada eggs should be checked continuously. When a small number of golden cicada larvae are found to be active, the branches and fine sand can be placed in the breeding site for planting.

sowing

Dig the pit into a strip shape, the depth should be mainly to the hairy roots, and the width should be one shovel. Put the branches with hatched larvae into the pit, and the larvae will hug the plant roots by themselves. Be gentle and slow when returning the soil. Do not step on the soil after returning it, and do not water it to ensure ventilation.

Sowing time

Planting time is generally from May to July or from September to October. Dig regular narrow trenches about 10 to 30 cm deep about 1 meter away from the base of the trunk, such as ring, square, triangle, parallel or radial shapes, for the purpose of later digging and harvesting. Cover the soil and compact it after "planting", and keep records of the time, quantity, "planting" trench shape and depth. It should be sunny and frost-proof, with soft, fertile and pollution-free soil; it should not be too dry, nor should it have too high water content or water accumulation, to ensure the normal growth and development of the host plant root system, and the young plants should be tender, developed and juicy. In winter, wheat straw, rice straw, corn straw, etc. should be covered in the planting area to maintain the ground temperature.

Harvest

If there are trees, wrap a circle of transparent tape at one meter to prevent the cicadas from climbing high to metamorphose. Cicadas become adults 15-18 months from the date of sowing.

collection

Cicada eggs are mainly made of wax strips, and cicada egg larvae feed on the juice of plant roots, so it is best to choose a multi-root area when burying. Each branch contains 100-400 cicada eggs, so 500-800 branches per mu are appropriate to ensure the survival rate. Using this method to grow golden cicadas advances the original growth period of 3-15 years to 18 months, the incubation period is increased from the original one year to about 35 days, and the survival rate is increased from the original 6% to about 30%-60%. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for breeding in rural areas.

The life span of adult cicadas is very short, only 2-4 weeks.

4. What kind of soil is best for breeding cicadas?

It is generally accepted that sandy soil (i.e., sandy soil and soil in any proportion) is more suitable. However, there is also a limit that it should not affect the growth of trees.

5. What kind of trees do cicadas like to lay eggs on?

Pear trees, willow trees, elm trees, locust trees, poplar trees, from what I have observed, basically all trees in the north have them, but they will choose relatively tender branches to lay their eggs. In autumn, cicadas lay eggs on branches, but the eggs do not hatch in the branches that year, but in the summer of the following year, the larvae will hatch. The larvae hatched from the eggs drill out of the branches one by one, fall to the ground, and then find loose soil to drill into, and begin a long underground life.

The larvae of cicadas live in the soil for a long time, generally two to three years, and the longer ones take five to six years. The longest is the 17-year cicada in America, which takes 17 years to grow in the soil before turning into a cicada. The larvae of cicadas develop in the soil, which is inseparable from the fact that their larval stage is too long. Their larvae go through several cold and hot seasons. In winter, they hide in the deep soil, and when the weather is warm, they move in the shallow soil to suck the sap from the roots of trees.

They can not only obtain food in the soil, but also be less vulnerable to attacks from enemies, and it is also easier to retain moisture in the soil.

6. How many acres of land are needed to breed cicadas?

Starting from 2 acres

If we calculate based on a two-year-old tree, 500 egg-laying strips can be placed per mu of forest land, and each egg branch contains more than 100 cicada eggs. If the hatching rate is 80%, each strip can hatch more than 80 cicada ants, and more than 300 catties of golden cicadas can be harvested per mu of forest land (about 110 cicadas per catty). The current market price of golden cicadas is about 30 yuan per catty, so the income per mu of forest land is about 9,000 yuan. For mature trees, 1,000-1,500 strips can be placed per mu of forest land, and the income will double accordingly.

The golden cicada is a representative species of the Cicadidae family. The adult is also called the black grasshopper cicada, commonly known as the cicada turtle, cicada monkey, etc. The breeding method is to first choose a good breeding site, and then go through eight steps: egg collection, post-harvest processing, hatching, sowing, sowing time, harvesting, and collection.

1. Breeding site

Cicadas are mainly bred under forests. Their growth needs can be met under various fruit trees and timber trees. There is no need to invest in building sites or houses, and there is no need to purchase other breeding facilities. my country is rich in forest resources, and it is generally difficult to interplant crops under fruit trees and other trees that are more than three years old. Cicada breeding makes use of the space under trees and grows by sucking the sap from the roots. It can be said that this develops breeding without affecting the growth of trees, killing two birds with one stone. The entire breeding process does not require feeding management, epidemic prevention, etc., and does not occupy labor. If the technology and sales of cicada breeding are solved, cicada breeding is a good project for laid-off workers to develop re-employment and for farmers to engage in the tertiary industry.

2. Egg collection

The eggs are collected after the cicadas lay eggs in autumn, usually around the seventh month of the lunar calendar. The cicadas use the small thorns on their tails to pierce the tender branches of one-year-old trees and lay their eggs inside the branches, mostly on juicy branches such as fruit trees. After laying eggs, the branches will dry up, so most branches with green lower ends and dry tips have cicada eggs.

3. Post-harvest processing

After collecting the branches with cicada eggs, remove the dry leaves, cut off the two ends, and bundle thirty branches into a bundle. Spread a layer of sand on the bottom of a large washing basin, and put the bundled branches upright in the basin. Keep the temperature at 28-34 degrees and the humidity moist. Spray it when it is dry. Use a sprayer to spray the branches until they are thoroughly wet.

4. Incubation

The larvae will hatch in about fifteen days. At this time, you will see some larvae crawling up and down on the branches. When about 20% of the larvae have hatched, they should be buried. The burial pit should be selected in an area with many fine and soft hair roots so that the larvae can absorb nutrients from the roots. It is best to choose a plot where honeysuckle is planted. In a plastic pot that is 10 cm long, 40 cm wide and 20 cm high, spread 5 to 10 cm thick fine dry sand on the bottom, place the egg branches in bundles vertically or horizontally on it, and constantly spray mist with a small sprayer to maintain high humidity in the air around the branches of the golden cicada eggs so that excess water droplets are absorbed in the fine sand at the bottom. During the incubation period, the hatching status of the golden cicada eggs should be checked continuously. When a small number of golden cicada larvae are found to be active, the branches and fine sand can be placed in the breeding site for planting.

5. Planting seeds

Dig the pit into a strip shape, the depth should be mainly to the hairy roots, and the width should be one shovel. Put the branches with hatched larvae into the pit, and the larvae will hug the plant roots by themselves. Be gentle and slow when returning the soil. Do not step on the soil after returning it, and do not water it to ensure ventilation.

6. Sowing time

Planting time is generally from May to July or from September to October. Dig regular narrow trenches about 10 to 30 cm deep about 1 meter away from the base of the trunk, such as ring, square, triangle, parallel or radial shapes, for the purpose of later digging and harvesting. Cover the soil and compact it after "planting", and keep records of the time, quantity, "planting" trench shape and depth. It should be sunny and frost-proof, with soft, fertile and pollution-free soil; it should not be too dry, nor should it have too high water content or water accumulation, to ensure the normal growth and development of the host plant root system, and the young plants should be tender, developed and juicy. In winter, wheat straw, rice straw, corn straw, etc. should be covered in the planting area to maintain the ground temperature.

7. Harvest

If there are trees, wrap a circle of transparent tape at one meter to prevent the cicadas from climbing high to metamorphose. Cicadas become adults 15-18 months from the date of sowing.

8. Collection

Cicada eggs are mainly made of wax strips, and cicada egg larvae feed on the juice of plant roots, so it is best to choose a multi-root area when burying. Each branch contains 100-400 cicada eggs, so 500-800 branches per mu are appropriate to ensure the survival rate. Using this method to grow golden cicadas advances the original growth period of 3-15 years to 18 months, the incubation period is increased from the original one year to about 35 days, and the survival rate is increased from the original 6% to about 30%-60%. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for breeding in rural areas.