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Yunnan Dongchuan centipede breeding, Sichuan Mianyang centipede breeding, Guizhou Liupanshan centipede breeding. Nongke惠民 (People-benefiting Agriculture) Breeding Farm specializes in breeding golden head centipedes and feed them with yellow mealworms, integrating breeding, sales, and product recycling into a large-scale farm. Practical and trustworthy, we help a wide range of customers to successfully breed golden head centipedes and yellow mealworms, achieving the greatest return with minimal investment.
Supported by Huazhong Agricultural University: A key national institution under the "211 Project" - Huazhong Agricultural University collaborates with Wuhan Nongke People-benefiting Bioengineering Co., Ltd. to jointly research and develop scientific farming techniques for centipede breeding, specifically the People-benefiting No. 2 Golden Head Centipede.
Advanced Technical Advantages: Through years of breeding observation, Wuhan Nongke People-benefiting Bioengineering Co., Ltd., together with multiple biological experts and professors of bioengineering from Huazhong Agricultural University, has used advanced selection and purification techniques combined with genetic engineering to cultivate a new generation of centipedes - the People-benefiting No. 2 Golden Head Centipede. Observations show that this breed is easy to raise, gentle in nature, strong in adaptability, fast-growing, highly reproductive, with better medicinal value and more significant economic benefits. It is an ideal investment project for many breeders.
Complete Breeding Facilities: The company leverages its agricultural science advantages and focuses on life sciences. Relying on experts and scholars from the Animal Science and Technology College, it centers on modern bioengineering, special animal breeding, and insect resource development, integrating scientific research, reproduction, teaching, promotion, technical services, production, sales, and import-export trade into a high-tech enterprise. The company owns large ecological breeding areas, solar greenhouses, and warm greenhouses. It also has separate technical training centers, seedling breeding centers, seed source rooms, hatching rooms, gene transformation rooms, etc., with excellent infrastructure and a complete system.
Wuhan Nongke People-benefiting Company: Upholding the tradition of "diligent reading and hard work, self-improvement and helping others," our company aims at "scientific agriculture" as its purpose and follows the business philosophy of "integrity, dedication, realism, innovation, and win-win" to promote the industrial development of centipede resources. We are committed to providing our fellow farmers with higher-quality seedlings, more advanced technology, and more comprehensive services. Let's keep pace with the times and jointly create a more brilliant future.
Wuhan Nongke People-benefiting Centipede Breeding Official Website: hm9188.com/index1.asp
Consultation: 027-87672386 or 87672385, Teacher Yu, QQ for detailed information: 1229441013
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Address of Hubei Nongke People-benefiting Centipede Breeding Base: Room 318, Tianhui Building, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuchang District, Wuhan City.
Centipedes generally come out alone at night. Although they have eight simple eyes, their vision is weak, especially during the day when it is extremely poor. They only avoid each other when their antennae touch. On clear, windless nights, between 8 PM and 11 PM is their peak activity period. Their characteristic is more nighttime activity and less daytime activity; they are more active when the temperature is above 25°C and less active when it is between 10～15°C; they are even less active or stop moving below 10°C. They are more active on humid, post-rain nights and less active on cold nights. They are more active on windless or slightly windy nights and less active on windy nights (wind force above six). They are more active on post-rain nights and less active on rainy nights. Therefore, the frequency of centipede activity is closely related to meteorological factors such as temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, rainfall, and light intensity. When artificially breeding centipedes, attention should be paid to the impact of these meteorological factors on their lives. Additionally, centipedes have a strong ability to drill through crevices, so they can smoothly pass through gaps in rocks and soil ridges and inhabit these crevices.
When the population density of centipedes is too high or they are disturbed frequently, it can easily lead to mutual killing and death. However, under breeding conditions, with the improvement of living environment and breeding conditions, such as providing sufficient fresh feed and water sources without excessive disturbance, even if the breeding density is relatively high, it will not significantly affect their lives. Especially for centipedes from the same mother, since they have lived together since childhood, even after growing up, dozens of them can curl up together harmoniously. Therefore, providing enough fresh feed and water sources, and maintaining a quiet environment, are essential conditions for artificial centipede breeding.
(2) Capture
It is generally best to capture centipedes before the Qingming Festival. Centipedes are oviparous insects. According to their preference for shade, moisture, quietness, and fear of strong light, choose forested or shaded or north-facing slopes as capture sites. Place chicken feathers, miscellaneous bones, or dry grass leaves to attract centipedes to rest and lay eggs. Collect the eggs before the Qingming Festival. When collecting the eggs, take the soil and branches and grass together back, place them in the breeding pool or tank for coverage and incubation. During the incubation period, gently turn the covering material regularly to prevent other pests from invading and ensure the smooth and safe hatching of the larvae.
(3) Breeding Management
1) Feed: Centipedes are typical carnivorous insects, quite fierce, capturing various small animals with their venomous jaw claws. From field observations and trial breeding results, summarizing breeding experiences from different places, centipede feed mainly includes the following categories: one category consists of various insects, such as crickets, locusts, tobacco beetles, scarab beetles, rice bagworms, horned worms, cicadas, grasshoppers, dragonflies, spiders, flies, bees, etc., including adult insects, pupae, larvae, and eggs. Another category includes annelids, earthworms, snails, slugs, and vertebrates like frogs, snakes, lizards, geckos, sparrows, mice, bats, etc., including muscles, bones, and internal organs. A third category includes eating some tender green grass, twigs, root tips, melons like watermelon and cucumber, as well as cooked products like eggs, milk, and bread when the above food sources are insufficient. Additionally, in Zhejiang, artificially bred centipedes mainly eat loaches, eels, small fish, shrimp, and crabs.
Although centipedes have a broad diet, they require fresh food and do not eat rotten food. Therefore, in artificial breeding, fresh feed must be provided every 2 to 3 days. Before feeding, any leftover food from the previous time must be thoroughly removed. Centipedes have a large appetite and strong hunger resistance. When hungry, they can consume up to 1/5 to 3/5 of their body weight in one feeding. After being full, they can survive without food for ten to fifteen days. At the same time, centipedes cannot withstand thirst and need water daily. Therefore, water containers must be placed in the breeding area and water changed regularly to maintain fresh and clean drinking water.
2) Egg-laying and Incubation: Late spring to early summer each year is the egg-laying season for centipedes. Each female centipede generally lays about 20 to 60 eggs, mostly around 40 to 50, with fewer than 10 being rare. Before laying eggs, the centipede's abdomen tightly presses against the ground, digging a shallow hole. 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 pre-dug shallow hole. Without external disturbances, egg-laying takes about 2 to 3 hours. After laying, the centipede turns its body sideways, using its legs to gather the eggs into a cluster and hugging them in its "arms" for incubation. The eggs laid by centipedes are elliptical in shape, varying in size, generally about 3 to 3.5 mm in diameter, light yellow, semi-transparent, and the egg membrane is elastic.
The incubation period for centipedes is relatively long, usually requiring 43 to 50 days. During the incubation process, both the external appearance and internal structure change gradually with the embryo's continuous development. After about a month, the eggs begin to form the initial larval shape, about 1.2 cm in length, and the wriggling of the larvae inside the egg membrane can be seen. Around 35 to 40 days later, the larvae are about 1.5 cm long and can crawl up and down but still cannot leave the mother. After 43 to 45 days, the larvae are about 2.5 cm long and can leave the mother to find food on their own. Throughout the incubation period, the mother has already stored enough nutrients and does not need to be fed, otherwise, the eggs or larvae may be contaminated by food and eaten by the mother, affecting the hatching rate and survival rate of the larvae.
During the incubation period, the mother never leaves the egg cluster or 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 move or suck the egg clusters or larvae. Observations suggest that the liquid secreted by the base gland of the mother's feeding claws or oral glands is cleaning the egg clusters or larvae to prevent bacterial contamination or other dirt.
If centipedes are disturbed externally during egg-laying or incubation, they will stop laying eggs and eat all the eggs that have been laid or are in incubation. This is known as the "protective" reaction of centipedes. After eating the eggs, centipedes can usually re-lay and incubate eggs. However, this greatly delays the egg-laying and incubation periods, reduces the number of eggs laid, lowers the hatching rate, and affects the yield and quality of centipedes. Therefore, during artificial breeding of centipedes, the surrounding environment should remain quiet during the egg-laying and incubation periods, avoiding disturbances, which is a matter that must be noted in breeding management.
3) Molting and Growth Development: Centipedes belong to the crustacean class of arthropods, covered by a chitinous shell that restricts further growth and development. To overcome the restriction of the shell on further growth and development, centipedes molt several times during their growth and development. Each time they molt, they grow noticeably larger. In embryonic development, they molt three times, while adults generally molt once a year, with some molting twice.
Molting mostly occurs in midsummer or after egg-laying. Before molting, the body color changes, movements become sluggish, they stop eating, and their vision and antennae abilities weaken. During molting, the process moves from front to back section by section, finally shedding the tail feet. The old skin shed appears shriveled and stretched straight forms a complete centipede body shell. Molting takes about 2 hours to complete. During molting, disturbances should be avoided, otherwise, it will prolong the molting time. In artificial breeding, precautions should be taken to prevent ants and other creatures from attacking them during molting, as they can easily be bitten and injured by ants.
The development speed of centipedes is relatively slow. By the end of the first winter hibernation, the hatchlings from the first year are only about 3.3 to 3.9 cm in length. In the second year, under conditions of ample food, their body length is only about 4.9 to 6.6 cm. Therefore, it generally takes 3 to 4 years for centipedes to develop from hatchlings to sexually mature adults. The speed of growth and development is closely related to whether there is sufficient food and the length of feeding time. It has been found in artificial breeding that centipedes raised indoors grow faster than those naturally raised outdoors in the same year. Thus, providing sufficient fresh feed is one of the important conditions for increasing their yield.
4) Wintering: Centipedes are ectothermic animals, and changes in external temperature greatly affect their lives. Cold winters pose a threat to their survival. To escape the cold winter, they burrow underground and hibernate. During hibernation, they do not eat or move, and their bodies curl into an "S" shape or "L" shape. The depth at which they burrow into the soil is directly related to the temperature of the air and soil. The lower the air and soil temperatures, the deeper they burrow into the soil; the higher the air and soil temperatures, the shallower they burrow. Under normal air and soil temperature conditions, they mostly hibernate at depths of 15 to 40 cm in the soil; when air and soil temperatures are low, they may hibernate at depths of 80 to 100 cm in the soil. If the soil temperature rises, it can not only delay the start of hibernation but also allow them to hibernate in shallower soil layers or even on the surface. Clearly, the temperature of the soil is the key factor affecting the length of centipede hibernation and the depth of the soil layer they burrow into. Therefore, in breeding, artificially raising the soil temperature in the hibernation area can not only shorten their hibernation time and ensure their safe wintering but also relatively increase the normal activity period of centipedes, which is beneficial to increasing the yield of farmed centipedes. For example, before centipedes enter winter, dig pits 80 to 100 cm deep in the breeding area, mix the excavated soil with collected garbage and mud ash in a 2:1 ratio, pour it back into the pit, and level the pit. Then lay an appropriate amount of brick and tile fragments and place the centipedes. Cover with a layer of fine soil and finally cover with tree branches and dry grass. This improves the wintering environmental conditions for centipedes.
Before improving the wintering environmental conditions, the soil temperature was low, with large fluctuations in morning, noon, and evening soil temperatures. After improvement, the soil temperature rises significantly, with smaller fluctuations in morning, noon, and evening temperatures, basically keeping the soil temperature stable throughout the day, which is beneficial for the safe wintering of centipedes. The benefits of improving the wintering environment for centipedes include: ① Deep plowing loosens the soil, allowing air circulation in the soil layers, and because the soil surface is covered with fine soil and dry grass, heat in the soil beneath the bricks and tiles does not easily dissipate, enhancing insulation capacity; furthermore, heat in the soil easily dissipates between the bricks and tiles, reducing the temperature difference between morning, noon, and evening. ② Bricks and tiles absorb water, creating the damp environment required by centipedes, and the larger gaps between the bricks and tiles facilitate the entry and exit activities and habitation of centipedes. ③ Mixing garbage mud and ash with the soil causes the garbage to quickly rot and decompose, releasing large amounts of heat energy, raising and stabilizing the soil temperature, shortening the hibernation time of centipedes. ④ Increases organic matter and microorganisms in the soil, promoting the proliferation of various small insects, providing fresh natural food for centipedes, and serving the role of "natural feeding" for centipedes. Therefore, artificially improving the wintering environment for centipedes is an effective method to help them safely overwinter and should be promoted. Additionally, after centipedes recover their activity after wintering, the breeding site should be sealed off to prevent centipedes from escaping.
