CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Can grasshoppers be kept at home? (How to keep a grasshopper if you catch one)

1. How long can grasshoppers survive indoors in winter?

Grasshoppers can only live for less than a year. This season is their growth and reproduction season. When the weather is suitable and there is more food, of course there will be more grasshoppers. When the lights are on at night, grasshoppers will fly into your home. Buy some insect repellent and spray it. Try not to use granular ones to avoid children or pets accidentally eating them.

If it crawled in from outside, check it. If it came in from the window, you can install a screen. Check the dead corners of the house, flower pots and soil, and the places where insects are prone to breeding. It is best to do a thorough cleaning.

2. How do grasshoppers get into the house?

1. Light reason: Grasshoppers are phototactic. When the lights are on in the house at night, the lights will attract grasshoppers to come in.

2. Green plant reasons: Planting green plants at home may attract grasshoppers because grasshoppers feed on all the green parts of plants.

3. Environmental reasons: The dry season may be coming. The reproduction rate of grasshoppers will greatly increase during the dry season. They will grow and reproduce wildly, resulting in an increase in the number of grasshoppers, so they may enter the home.

3. How to raise grasshoppers at home?

Grasshopper family breeding:

1. It is advisable to choose a place with good ventilation and plenty of sunshine.

2. Eliminate natural enemies before building a nest. Use methods such as capturing, trapping, and scalding to eliminate ants, mole crickets, etc. on the ground. Because the above animals are natural enemies of locusts, they can prey on locusts and destroy locust eggs, so these animals must not be allowed to exist in the shed.

3. The ground of the ground nest should be 10-15 cm higher than the surrounding ground to facilitate drainage in the rainy season. Sandy loam is the best soil, which is not easy to clump and is convenient for laying eggs and collecting eggs. The soil should not be too soft, as locusts have high requirements for laying eggs.

4. Density

The area of ​​the shed depends on the number of locusts. Generally, 600-800 adult locusts can be raised per square meter.

5. Build a nest. According to your own conditions, you can use sticks and bamboo strips to build a shed support. According to the size of the shed, use gauze to make a shed cover like a mosquito net, hang it on the shed, bury the bottom edge in the ground, leave a door, and press the zipper on the door. This is to prevent locusts from running out and to facilitate feeding and management in the shed. The height of the shed can be 1.5-2 meters. In order to keep warm or prevent rain, you can cover the outside of the shed with plastic cloth. When the temperature is high and the locusts are large (more than three years old), they are not afraid of rain, so you don’t need to cover them with plastic cloth. If you use natural conditions to breed migratory locusts, the construction of the shed must be completed before the end of April.

6. There should be corn and other taller plants in the shed for isolation.

1. Habits of grasshoppers:

Herbivorous. They like to eat thick leaves, such as sweet potatoes, water spinach, cabbage, etc.

Every summer and autumn is the breeding season. After mating, the female locust inserts the ovipositor into the soil 10 cm deep and lays about 50 eggs. When laying eggs, the female will secrete a white substance to form a cylindrical plug, and then lay the eggs.

Developmental period 2 The development process of locusts is relatively complicated (as shown in the figure). Its life begins with fertilized eggs. The larvae that have just hatched from the eggs have no wings and can jump, which is called "jumping nymphs". The morphology and living habits of jumping nymphs are similar to those of adults, but the body is smaller and the reproductive organs are not mature. Insects in this form are also called "nymphs". Nymphs gradually grow up, and when they are restricted by the exoskeleton and cannot grow any longer, they shed their original exoskeleton, which is called molting. Nymphs molt five times in their lifetime. From egg hatching to the first molting, it is the first instar, and each subsequent molting increases the instar by one. After the third instar, the wing buds are obvious. After the fifth instar, it becomes an adult that can fly. It can be seen that the individual development process of locusts goes through three stages: egg, nymph, and adult. Such a developmental process is called incomplete metamorphosis. The entire individual development history of insects from fertilized eggs to adults and the ability to produce offspring is called a generation. In some areas of China, locusts can produce two generations of summer locusts and autumn locusts in one year, so there are two eras. At around 24°C, the eggs of locusts can hatch in about 21 days. The hatched nymphs crawl out of the soil. At this time, their appearance is very similar to that of adults, but they have no wings and their body color is lighter. In the first one or two instars, the larvae look more like adults, but their heads and bodies are out of proportion. In the third instar, wing buds grow, which are very obvious in the fourth instar. In the fifth instar, the nymphs are already mature and will crawl onto plants after feeding for a few days, with their bodies hanging down. After waiting for a period of time, the adults will emerge.

2. Locust breeding

1. Development, hatching and management of locust eggs The starting temperature range for the development of migratory locusts is 20-42 degrees, the suitable temperature for development is 25-40 degrees, and the optimum temperature is 28-35 degrees. Under the condition of relative humidity of 85%-92% or soil moisture content of 15-18%, the suitable temperature for development is 25-32 degrees, and the natural temperature in northern my country reaches in early May. After purchasing the eggs, put the locust eggs directly into the soil and wait for them to hatch naturally. After 10-15 days of hatching, all locust nymphs are hatched. Locust nymphs have a small food intake and are weak, so they should be protected from rain.

4. Which type of grasshopper is most suitable for raising at home?

Raising the East Asian migratory locust is also a kind of grasshopper, because the East Asian migratory locust is most suitable for breeding

The East Asian migratory locust, which is found all over the world, belongs to the family Acrididae in the order Orthoptera. The "king of locusts" is the East Asian migratory locust that people are afraid of. The East Asian migratory locust belongs to the class Insecta, order Orthoptera, family Acrididae. According to statistics, there are 22 genera and 859 species in the superfamily Acridoidea.

The East Asian migratory locust grows under natural temperature conditions and has two generations a year. The first generation is called summer locust and the second generation is autumn locust. The East Asian migratory locust has a sturdy body, a wide range of feeding, and strong adaptability. After hatching into a young locust, it can become an adult after 35 days of feeding. It can be sold after about 50 days of fattening, so the time is short and the return is fast. Raising an adult East Asian migratory locust can reach 20 kilograms, and its economic benefits are considerable, and the seeds only need to be purchased once. It reproduces dozens of times by itself, eggs hatch locusts, locusts lay eggs, and the cycle repeats. After years of breeding, it can be sold continuously. A locust can lay 35 to 90 eggs at a time.

5. Can grasshoppers be kept in the room?

No, they must be kept in greenhouses. Grasshoppers, also known as locusts, have a wide range of food, and can feed on leaves, tender stems, flower buds and tender fruits of wheat, rice, millet, corn, beans, tobacco, reeds, vegetables, fruit trees, trees and weeds, etc. They bite the leaves into notches or holes. When a large outbreak occurs, they can eat the crops to bare stems or eat them all, causing serious economic losses. Locusts are insects with incomplete metamorphosis, including three stages: egg, nymph and adult.

6. How to raise Chinese grasshoppers at home?

Grasshopper family breeding:

1. It is advisable to choose a place with good ventilation and plenty of sunshine.

2. Eliminate natural enemies before building a nest. Use methods such as capturing, trapping, and scalding to eliminate ants, mole crickets, etc. on the ground. Because the above animals are natural enemies of locusts, they can prey on locusts and destroy locust eggs, so these animals must not be allowed to exist in the shed.

3. The ground of the ground nest should be 10-15 cm higher than the surrounding ground to facilitate drainage in the rainy season. Sandy loam is the best soil, which is not easy to clump and is convenient for laying eggs and collecting eggs. It should not be too soft, as locusts have high requirements for laying eggs.

7. Can grasshoppers be raised at home?

Grasshopper family breeding:

1. It is advisable to choose a place with good ventilation and plenty of sunshine.

2. Eliminate natural enemies before building a nest. Use methods such as capturing, trapping, and scalding to eliminate ants, mole crickets, etc. on the ground. Because the above animals are natural enemies of locusts, they can prey on locusts and destroy locust eggs, so these animals must not be allowed to exist in the shed.

3. The ground of the ground nest should be 10-15 cm higher than the surrounding ground to facilitate drainage in the rainy season. Sandy loam is the best soil, which is not easy to clump and is convenient for laying eggs and collecting eggs. The soil should not be too soft, as locusts have high requirements for laying eggs.

4. Density

The area of ​​the shed depends on the number of locusts. Generally, 600-800 adult locusts can be raised per square meter.

5. Build a nest. According to your own conditions, you can use sticks and bamboo strips to build a shed support. According to the size of the shed, use gauze to make a shed cover like a mosquito net, hang it on the shed, bury the bottom edge in the ground, leave a door, and press the zipper on the door. This is to prevent locusts from running out and to facilitate feeding and management in the shed. The height of the shed can be 1.5-2 meters. In order to keep warm or prevent rain, you can cover the outside of the shed with plastic cloth. When the temperature is high and the locusts are large (more than three years old), they are not afraid of rain, so you don’t need to cover them with plastic cloth. If you use natural conditions to breed migratory locusts, the construction of the shed must be completed before the end of April.

8. How to keep pointed green grasshoppers indoors?

It is advisable to choose a place with good ventilation and plenty of sunlight to raise it. Before building a nest, you should first eliminate the ants, mole crickets, etc. on the ground by capturing, trapping, scalding with boiling water, etc., because the above animals are its natural enemies.

The ground of the nest should be 10-15 cm higher than the surrounding ground to facilitate drainage in the rainy season. Sandy loam is the best soil, and then feed them a small amount of fresh wheat seedlings, corn seedlings, weeds and other monocotyledonous plants every day.

9. Can grasshoppers caught in the wild be raised at home?

Yes, you can keep grasshoppers caught in the wild at home as long as they are not injured. You can put them in a suitable cardboard box and put a wire mesh with some weight on top to prevent the grasshoppers from escaping. It can also effectively provide them with air and oxygen. You can also put some fresh green vegetables and tender leaves for them to eat every day.