CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How many years does it take to grow golden cicadas? (How many years does it take to grow golden cicadas?)

1. How old are the trees that can be used to grow cicadas?

You can raise cicadas after more than three years.

For breeding cicadas, choose poplar, tung, willow and various fruit trees that are more than three years old. It is not easy to breed cicadas in trees with bitter sap. The breeding density should be reasonable according to the size of the tree. The amount of seeds used for 3-4 year old trees, 5-6 year old trees, and 6-10 year old trees is different. Cicadas are not very demanding on land. Sandy soil and neutral soil are better. Pay attention to watering when the land is dry. The land for breeding cicadas should not be low-lying. Pay attention to drainage when it rains heavily.

2. How long does it take for cicada seedlings to mature?

Cultivated under trees in natural conditions. The cicada needs to grow underground for three winters and summers (three years for a cicada) from the egg stage to hatching into a cicada ant (1 month) and then growing into a mature nymph (cicada). The first year starts in June, and the weight of the year is only about 1 gram, and the whole body and eyes are milky white; the weight develops to about 3 grams in the second year, the whole body pigment deepens, and the eyes are pink; the nymph (cicada) matures in the third year, weighing 4.5-5 grams, with an average of 210 per kilogram, at this time the body color is brown, and the eyes are dark gray.

3. How many years will it take to produce results from cicada breeding?

It takes three years from cicada egg laying to harvesting cicada pupae. The eggs are collected in autumn, usually around the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the larvae will hatch in about fifteen days. At this time, you can see some larvae crawling up and down on the branches. When about 20% of the larvae have hatched, they should be buried.

4. How many years does it take for a cicada to grow into adulthood?

The golden cicadas bred in Shandong Province refer to the large golden cicadas, which have black eyes. With the current breeding technology, the cycle is long and it takes three years for this kind of cicada to grow into a mature one.

5. How long does it take to artificially breed cicada monkeys?

The time is almost the same as that of wild cicadas. It takes five years for wild cicadas to molt from eggs to become cicadas. The difference is that the survival rate of wild cicadas is lower because they have too many natural enemies and are affected by natural disasters. However, artificially bred cicadas have no natural enemies and no natural disasters, so the growth time is the same, but the survival rate is lower in wild ones and higher in artificially bred ones.

6. What is the cicada breeding cycle?

It takes about 3-4 years for cicadas to crawl out of the ground. 1. Egg stage: After overwintering, cicadas hatch around June. When they find a suitable place, they will dig a hole, drill into the ground, and suck juice for a living.

2. Nymphs: They generally live in the soil for about 3-5 years and molt once every June to September.

3. Adult: After the nymphs mature, they drill out of the ground and begin to eclode. After 20 days of eclosion, they begin to mate and lay eggs.

7. How long does it take to artificially breed cicadas?

Cicada breeding technology Cicada is an oviparous and underground incubated medicinal material with extremely high medicinal value. It has the effects of clearing blood and removing blood stasis, health care, and has a certain therapeutic effect on hypertension. However, the existing cicada has the disadvantages of long growth cycle, low survival rate, and is not suitable for collection. After several years of research and experiments, our company has summarized a set of cicada breeding technology based on the growth habits of cicada.

1. Egg collection: Egg collection is done after the cicada lays eggs in autumn, usually around the seventh month of the lunar calendar. The cicada uses the small thorns on its tail to pierce the tender branches of one year old trees and lay eggs in 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.

2. 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.

3. Hatching: The larvae will hatch in about 15 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 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.

4. Sowing: Dig a 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.

5. Harvesting: If there are trees, wrap them with transparent tape at a distance of one meter to prevent the cicadas from climbing high to metamorphose. Cicadas will become adults 15-18 months after sowing.

6. Tips: Cicada eggs are collected mainly from wax branches and fruit tree branches. 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 can advance the original growth period of 3-15 years to 18 months, the incubation period from the original one year to about 35 days, and the survival rate from the original 6% to about 30%-60%. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for breeding in rural areas.

The price of golden cicadas is rising, and they have been served on the tables of restaurants of all sizes. The prospects are promising. The survival rate of golden cicadas planted in this way is high. If the minimum survival rate is 30% per acre, about 100,000 cicadas can survive.

Farming technology

1. Planting trees

Choose healthy tree species with well-developed root systems, lush growth, and more sap, such as poplar, elm, willow, tung or various fruit trees in the orchard. You can also plant honeysuckle and day lily in the breeding area. In addition, intercrop some root and tuber plants, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and yams.

You can build a gauze greenhouse and use short trees. The gauze should be more than twice the height of the tree, so that the cicadas can reproduce freely. When selecting seeds, male and female should be one to one.

(II) Branch processing

Collect the egg branches and bundle every 100 branches. Then mix them with 1% washing powder (100 kg of water to 1 kg of washing powder), and soak the bundled branches in the solution for two minutes. After taking them out, rinse them with clean water and stand them upright to dry. After that, spray them with pot ash mixed with water to kill pests and bacteria.

(III) Indoor storage

First, clean the room, use dark fire and smoke to disinfect, kill insects and sterilize. Then pack or box the dried branches and place them on the indoor rack, and make the room ventilated and light-permeable.

4. Indoor incubation

At the end of May in the Gregorian calendar (when the temperature is suitable), you can hatch indoors or in a greenhouse. Place 10-15 cm of dry sand in the indoor or greenhouse, or use a plastic pot in the greenhouse to fill it with 10-15 cm of dry sand. Soak the branches in 20-degree warm water for two minutes, take out 10 bundles and place them on the sand in the indoor or greenhouse. Use 0.1% glucose powder and water to spray the branches with a sprayer to supplement the nutrition of the eggs stored in the dry branches for a long time. The larvae hatched in this way are strong and have a high survival rate. Note: Spray evenly with warm water three times a day, the humidity should not drip down, the temperature should be kept at 26-32 degrees, and the hatching time is 30-35 days.

(V) Planting

At the end of June in the Gregorian calendar, the hatched egg branches are buried for breeding. First, loosen the forest land with a disturber, 60 cm away from the tree and 15 cm deep, to loosen the soil and avoid breaking the tree roots, so that the pests can hide in the 15 cm mature soil layer. When digging trenches for planting, the distance should be about one meter from the tree, and the trench depth should be 35 cm. Sawdust and plant ash should be sprinkled on the bottom of the trench to kill insects and sterilize. Sawdust can promote the growth of larvae. Then put the hatched branches at the bottom of the trench, seal the trench with soil, 2 cm above the ground, do not step on it, and do not water it. After a period of time, you can fertilize, water, and spray the trees.