Centipedes have a wide and varied diet, but they require their food to be fresh and will not eat spoiled food. Therefore, when raising them artificially, fresh feed must be provided every 2-3 days. Before feeding, any leftover food from the previous feeding should be thoroughly cleared away. Centipedes have large appetites and strong resistance to hunger. When hungry, they can consume up to 1/5 to 3/5 of their own body weight in one meal. After eating their fill, they can survive for ten days to half a month without food. Additionally, centipedes cannot tolerate thirst and need to drink water daily. Thus, water containers must be placed in the breeding area, and the water should be changed regularly to keep it fresh and clean.
The Agricultural Science Feed: Centipedes are typical carnivorous insects with a fierce nature. They can hunt various small animals much larger than themselves by shooting out venom from their fangs. Centipedes have a broad diet. From field observations and trial farming experiences, combined with various breeding practices, centipede feeds mainly include the following categories: one category consists of various insects, such as crickets, locusts, tobacco beetles, June bugs, rice bagworms, cattle, deer, Wuhan Agricultural Science Benefiting People Bioengineering Co., Ltd., horned worms. The incubation period of centipedes is relatively long, usually requiring 43-50 days. During hatching, both the external form and internal structure gradually change with the development of the embryo. After about a month, the larvae begin to take shape within the egg, measuring approximately 1.2 cm in length, and the movement of the larvae inside the egg membrane can be seen; after 35-40 days, the young centipedes measure around 1.5 cm in length and can crawl up and down but still cannot leave the mother; after 43-45 days, the larvae grow to about 2.5 cm in length and can leave the mother to search for food on their own. Throughout the incubation period, the mother has already stored sufficient nutrients and does not need to be fed. Otherwise, it could easily cause the eggs or larvae to be contaminated by food and eaten by the mother, affecting the hatching rate and survival rate of the larvae.
Another category includes worms, earthworms, snails, slugs, and other invertebrates, as well as the muscles, bones, and internal organs of vertebrates such as frogs, snakes, lizards, geckos, sparrows, mice, and bats. A third category includes small amounts of tender green grass, twigs, root tips, and fruits like watermelons and cucumbers, as well as cooked products like eggs, milk, and bread when the above food sources are insufficient. Additionally, centipedes raised in Zhejiang Province primarily consume loaches, eels, small fish, shrimp, and crabs.
2) Egg-laying and Hatching: Every spring and early summer is the egg-laying season for centipedes. Each female centipede typically lays between 20-60 eggs, mostly around 40-50 eggs, with a few laying less than 10 eggs. Before laying eggs, the centipede's abdomen tightly adheres to the ground, digging a shallow hole by itself. During egg-laying, the centipede's body curves into an "S" shape, and the eggs are laid one by one in a string into the self-dug shallow hole. In the absence of external disturbances, egg-laying takes about 2-3 hours. After laying, the centipede immediately turns its body sideways, using its legs to gather the eggs into a cluster and holding them in its "arms" to incubate. The eggs laid by the centipede are elliptical, varying in size, generally about 3-3.5 mm in diameter, light yellow in color, semi-transparent, and the egg membrane is elastic.
During the incubation period, the mother never leaves the egg cluster or the larvae, carefully incubating and guarding them. She frequently uses her antennae to drive away other nearby small insects and often uses her feeding claws to manipulate or lick the egg cluster or larvae with her mouth. Observations show that this is a liquid secreted from the base of the mother's feeding claws or oral glands, used to clean the egg cluster or larvae to prevent bacterial contamination or other pollutants.
If disturbed during the egg-laying or incubation period, the centipede will stop laying eggs and eat all the eggs already laid or those in the process of hatching. This is known as the centipede's "protective" response. After eating the eggs, centipedes can usually re-lay and incubate new ones. However, this significantly delays the egg-laying and incubation periods, reduces the number of eggs laid, and lowers the hatching rate, impacting the quantity and quality of centipedes produced. Therefore, during the artificial breeding of centipedes, it is important to maintain a quiet environment during the egg-laying and incubation periods to avoid disturbing them, which is a critical aspect of management.
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