CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Spider breeding base (where is the spider breeding base)

1. How to breed southern spiders?

1. To raise hunting spiders, you can use large-mouthed cans, wide-mouthed bottles, and specimen bottles. However, the mouth of the bottle should be sealed with double gauze and some zigzag cardboard or small firewood stalks inside for the spiders to climb and hide.

2. Three-dimensional cage culture method for raising web-weaving spiders:

(1) The spider cage is made of white plastic window screen, with a length, width and height of 20 cm each. A circular hole with a diameter of 10 cm is opened on one side of the cage, and a cloth bag with two empty ends is sewn on one end of the circular hole to serve as an operation hole. The cloth bag is usually tied with a rubber band and opened only when operating. The four corners of the cage are fixed to the cage frame with four cloth straps to fix the spider cage in place.

(2) The spider cage frame can be made of wood or thin steel bars welded by electric welding. The size should be suitable for the cage. In order to save floor space, several layers are usually overlapped, as long as it is easy to operate. The outer height of the cage frame is 2 meters, 1 meter long, and 20 centimeters wide. There are 9 layers in total, with 5 cages on each layer. The lower legs are 10 to 20 centimeters high. A 20-square-meter space can raise 1,000 spiders.

3. To raise cave-dwelling spiders, you can use the pond method, that is, build a pond with a length, width and height of 50 cm with bricks, fill it with soil to 1/2 of the height, make a cave manually, seal the top with iron wire and leave a small door for observation and feeding. This method is suitable for raising bird spiders, cave-dwelling wolf spiders, etc.

Breeding method: Single spider breeding means keeping one spider in a container.

Due to different breeding purposes and tools, it can be divided into cage breeding and bottle breeding, and some can be directly placed on potted crops.

Spider breeding is to raise multiple spiders in a larger breeding container. In order to prevent spiders from killing each other, straw, rice straw, and small branches should be added to the breeding container to reduce contact between spiders and enable them to build nests and defend themselves. In this breeding method, spiders of the same species and size should be placed in order to avoid the strong preying on the weak.

Feed and feeding Spiders have a mixed diet, but they are mainly fed with meat, such as locusts, crickets, butterflies, flies, mealworms, etc. are all high-quality feed. For large-scale breeding, it is best to set up a small insect farm. Artificial feeds include milk, egg yolk, etc., which can be prepared and fed once a week.

2. What are the general conditions for a spider’s home?

The spider breeding room should refer to the following standards: the foundation should be 10 to 20 cm above the ground, and windows should be opened 1.2 to 1.5 cm above the ground on all sides, with movable screens on top to facilitate ventilation.

A 15-20 cm deep and 25 cm wide ditch is opened on the walls inside or outside the room. The inner edge of the ditch is a gentle slope, and the outer edge is a steep slope. It is inlaid with glass and filled with water to prevent ants from invading and spiders from escaping.

The spider room can be made into a breeding box with a length of 45 cm, a width of 32 cm and a height of 30 cm using wooden boards, glass or steel frames, or it can be made into a breeding box using a plastic barrel.

The box is paved with 10-15 cm thick brick-red soil, and then a 30° slope is built on it with a height of 10 cm. A cave is built on the slope. The cave is slightly inclined and 10 cm deep, which is a size suitable for the spider's body.

In each breeding box, there is a water tray and a feeding tray. A 2 cm2 foam sponge is placed in the water tray so that the spider can absorb water.

3. How to breed Richter’s disc-bellied spider?

The Golden Money Trap Spider is also called the Richter's Disc-Bellied Spider. It is a rather peculiar species of spider.

Methods/Steps

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1. First, you need to prepare a container, which should not be too large.

You can choose a rectangular glass tank or a spider breeding box. The size is selected according to the stage of the spider. In fact, it is simpler to use an acrylic spider breeding box if you don't need to change the tank later. You can find a lot of them on Taobao.

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2. Because the money trapdoor spider is terrestrial, it needs bedding.

The best soil to use is coconut soil, which is also easy to buy and quite convenient. You can also use loess or other soil obtained from the wild, but it is not recommended because you don’t know what kind of parasites it will bring back. In addition, loess is difficult to control humidity.

If you use coconut soil, add water until no water comes out when you squeeze it with your hands. Don't make it too wet, otherwise the money trap spider will want to escape and lie on the edge of the box and wait.

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3. Prepare a small lid, such as a beverage lid or a mineral water lid, and fill it with two-thirds of water and place it in the breeding box. This is the water source for the golden spider.

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4. Food of the money trapdoor spider.

Ideal foods are crickets, cherry cockroaches, crickets, mealworms and other insects.

Remember not to feed a single food, otherwise the money trapdoor spider will go on a hunger strike. If you feed the same food every day, you will find that the money trapdoor spider will not eat within a week.

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5. The key is to control the humidity. If it is too dry, the golden coin trapdoor spider will become dehydrated and will not eat.

If it is too wet, it will easily cause problems. In any case, make sure that no water can be seen on the surface of the coconut soil. If you use your hand to test the coconut soil, if water comes out when you press it, it means it is too wet and not suitable.

Use a dropper for humidification, never a spray. Money-leaf trapdoor spiders are too timid to be scared by water from a spray bottle.

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6. About temperature.

Spiders do not need to bask in the sun. When it is too cold in the south, a heating pad is needed. The temperature can be controlled between 10-30 degrees. In summer, it is placed in a cool place and generally does not need to be cooled.

4. How to breed three-door ground spiders?

1. Spiders can be raised indoors or outdoors. If they are raised on a large scale, wooden boxes or cement pools can be used.

2. If you are raising a small amount, you can use a canning bottle, glass jar, or lampshade.

3. Its diet is mixed, mainly meat, such as flies, crickets, locusts, etc. It can also be fed artificial feed, mixed with milk and egg yolk, once a week. In addition, pay attention to anti-escape measures to avoid escape.

4. Spiders are the most abundant predatory natural enemies in terrestrial ecosystems, and their role in maintaining the stability of agricultural and forestry ecosystems cannot be ignored. The body length is 1 to 90 mm, and the body is divided into two parts: the cephalothorax (front body) and the abdomen (back body). The cephalothorax is covered with a carapace and a chest plate. The cephalothorax has two pairs of appendages. The first pair is the chelicerae, which have chelicerae and venom gland openings at the tips of the chelicerae. The chelicerae of the suborder Orthognathus move forward and backward, while those of the suborder Pinnipedia move sideways and towards each other. The second pair is the pedipalps, which are in the form of walking legs in female spiders and immature male spiders, and are used to hold food and serve as sensory organs. However, in adult male spiders, the distal end of the pedipalps is enlarged and becomes a copulatory device for transmitting sperm.

5. Is there anyone who makes money by breeding spiders?

Some people make money by breeding spiders. Artificial breeding can be done indoors or outdoors. Large-scale breeding can be done in wooden boxes, cement pools, or outdoor sheds. Small-scale breeding can also be done in lampshades, glass jars, cans, etc. Because spiders have different habits, the breeding tools are also different.

Spiders have a varied diet, are resistant to hunger, have strong vitality, and are easy to raise. As long as they have three basic conditions: food, water, and shelter, they can grow and develop normally, spin silk, and reproduce. One spider can reproduce 200 to 300 spiders a year, and some can reproduce thousands of spiders, which are worth hundreds of yuan. Spiders feed on flies and other insects, and feed is easy to obtain. They can be caught, bred, and raised by themselves without investment. They can also be introduced from other places for breeding, which has considerable benefits.

6. What are artificially bred spiders used for?

The ultimate goal of artificially breeding spiders is to process and utilize them. It is a way to expand domestic and foreign consumer markets and enrich people's growing living standards. In this way, spiders can be added value in processing and utilization. At the same time, spiders can be deeply processed through high-tech means to produce new products with high added value, thereby improving the competitiveness and economic benefits of spiders in the market.

In addition to processing a large number of commercial spiders, spiders from breeding groups should also be selected. Generally, spiders with low reproductive rates and those that are old, weak, sick, or disabled should be processed in a timely manner. The following aspects should be considered:

First, male spiders with poor breeding ability, too many male spiders in the spider group, or male spiders that are cruel and love to bite and fight should be eliminated for processing. This can ensure the quality of male spiders and improve the reproduction rate and survival rate of spiderlings.

Second, male and female spiders that have been raised for a long time and have aged, generally referring to the spiders that have been used for 3 to 5 years, their reproductive function has declined, manifested as low fertilization rate, many empty uteruses, decreased reproduction rate, etc., as well as the low survival rate and slow growth rate of the offspring spiders they produce. These should be eliminated for processing.

Third, inbred spiders not only have poor reproductive capacity and produce few offspring, but they also often lay egg sacs with a low hatching rate, or deformed spiders are found. These should also be eliminated for processing.

Fourth, sick spiders that cannot be cured, disabled spiders with damaged bodies or limbs, and weak adult and young spiders should be processed in a timely manner to improve the economic benefits of processing.

Fifth, although some female spiders are young and strong and are at the peak of their reproductive period, if they produce few offspring, they should be eliminated in time for processing.