Guizhou Duyun Centipede Farming, Guizhou Kaili Centipede Farming Technology, Prospects of Centipede Farming in Guizhou
The Agricultural Science and Technology Benefitting the People Farm specializes in breeding golden-headed centipedes and feed yellow mealworms, integrating farming, sales, and product recycling into a large-scale farm. Practical and trustworthy, it enables a wide range of customers to successfully breed golden-headed centipedes and feed yellow mealworms, achieving the greatest return with the least investment.
Supported by Huazhong Agricultural University: A key national university under the "211 Project" - Huazhong Agricultural University collaborates with Wuhan Agroscience Benefiting the People Bioengineering Co., Ltd. to research and promote scientific agriculture and enrich farmers through centipede farming technology: Benefiting the People No. 2 Golden-Headed Centipede.
Advanced Technical Advantages: Wuhan Agroscience Benefiting the People Bioengineering Co., Ltd., together with several biological experts and professors of bioengineering from Huazhong Agricultural University, after years of observation in farming, using selected purification techniques and biological genetic improvement engineering, has cultivated a new generation of varieties - Benefiting the People No. 2 Golden-Headed Centipede. After observation, this variety is easy to breed, gentle in nature, strong in adaptability, fast-growing, highly reproductive, with better medicinal value and more significant economic benefits, making it an ideal investment project for many breeders.
Complete Breeding Facilities: The company leverages agricultural science as its advantage, relying on the expertise of the Animal Science and Technology College, focusing on modern bioengineering, special breeding, and insect resource development. It integrates research, reproduction, teaching, promotion, technical services, production, sales, and import-export trade into a high-tech enterprise. It owns large ecological breeding areas, solar greenhouse breeding areas, greenhouse breeding areas, etc., and is equipped with technical training centers, seedling breeding centers, germplasm rooms, hatching rooms, gene transformation rooms, etc., ensuring excellent foundation and a complete system.
Wuhan Agroscience Benefiting the People Company: Upholding the tradition of "diligent study and hard work, self-improvement and helping others," our company takes "scientific agriculture" as its mission and promotes the industrial development of centipede resources with the business philosophy of "integrity, dedication, realism, innovation, and win-win." We are committed to providing our fellow farmers with higher-quality and higher-yield seedlings, advanced technology, and perfect services, keeping pace with the times and jointly creating a brighter future.
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Centipedes avoid sunlight, being active at night and resting during the day. They prefer living in dark, warm, rain-sheltered places with good air circulation. They mainly inhabit rocky areas with little soil in low mountain regions. Although they are distributed in plain areas, their numbers are fewer there. Centipedes like to live in hilly areas and sandy soil regions, often hiding during the day in crevices between bricks and stones, under walls, and in piles of leaves, grass, and decaying wood in dark corners, coming out at night to hunt insects, spiders, cockroaches, etc. In October when the weather turns cold, they burrow into the soil on wind-sheltered, sunny slopes, hibernating about 12 cm below the surface until the following Awakening of Insects (early March), when they become active again as the weather warms up.
Centipedes have a strong ability to drill into cracks. Using their sensitive antennae and flat head plates to test crevices, most gaps in rocks and soil can be passed through or inhabited. When the density is too high or disturbed too much, they may kill each other. However, under artificial breeding conditions, if there is sufficient bait and drinking water, dozens of them can coexist.
Activity and Feeding Habits
Centipedes are typical carnivorous animals, fierce in nature, with a wide range of food sources, especially fond of small insects. They have mandibles that can shoot venom, even capable of killing animals larger than themselves. There are also cases of mutual cannibalism leading to death. The insects eaten by centipedes include crickets, locusts, scarab beetles, cicadas, grasshoppers, and various flies, bees, even spiders, earthworms, snails, and animals much larger than their body size such as frogs, rats, sparrows, lizards, and snakes. In early spring when food is scarce, they can also eat tender shoots of grass and moss. When kept artificially, they will not eat food that is slightly rotten.
Raising Centipedes
1. Living Habits. Under natural conditions, centipedes generally reside on slopes, fields, roadsides, or in places overgrown with weeds, or dwell near wells, firewood piles, and crevices between tiles and bricks, particularly liking damp, old ground surfaces. Their basic activity pattern is nocturnal.
When the temperature drops below 10°C, they stop eating, entering hibernation at -7°C.
2. Reproduction Characteristics. The lifespan of centipedes is only six years. After reaching sexual maturity, they usually mate in the early morning after rain in March-May and July-August. After 40 days, they start laying eggs. Female centipedes lay fertilized eggs on their backs to facilitate timely hatching. Each female centipede lays eggs for 2-3 hours at a time, producing 80-150 eggs per batch. The egg surface is rich in mucus, sticking together to form an egg mass. During the hatching period, the female centipede neither eats nor drinks until the baby centipedes hatch.
3. Feed. Centipedes are typical carnivorous animals with a broad diet, especially fond of various insects such as mealworms, crickets, scarab beetles, termites, cicadas, dragonflies, spiders, flies, bees, as well as their eggs, pupae, larvae, etc. They also consume silkworms, earthworms, snails, and the meat, organs, blood, cartilage, etc., of various livestock and aquatic animals. They also eat fruit peels, potatoes, carrots, tender vegetables, milk, bread, etc., as food for centipedes.
4. Construction of Breeding Pools. Artificial breeding of centipedes can adopt methods such as jars or pools. For jar breeding, use old tile jars or ceramic jars, preferably with a diameter of more than 0.5 meters, burying the mouth down about 20 centimeters in the soil and compacting the surrounding soil. Inside the jar, build with bricks or adobe blocks, about 10 centimeters lower than the jar's rim, leaving a certain gap between the blocks and the jar wall. If using a complete jar, do not remove the bottom; simply stack adobe blocks inside the jar. A jar with a diameter of 80 centimeters can hold about 200 adult centipedes.
For pool breeding, the breeding pool should be built in a sunny, ventilated place with convenient drainage, coolness, quietness. It can be built indoors or outdoors. Constructed with bricks or stone blocks, the interior is plastered with cement, the pool height is 80 centimeters, and the breeding pool area size is arbitrary, generally suitable at 5-10 square meters. Around the pool opening's inner side, attach smooth plastic film, or install a 15-centimeter-wide glass strip forming a right angle with the pool wall. Each square meter of the breeding pool can accommodate 500-900 adult centipedes.
5. Management Points.
1. Prevent centipedes from escaping; centipedes are quick-tempered, and if preventive measures are not in place, they easily escape.
2. Pay attention to the breeding density, separating and grouping them based on changes in the centipede's length and size.
3. Manage temperature, humidity, and lighting, maintaining a quiet environment.
4. Ensure the cleanliness and hygiene of the feed; do not feed pesticide-contaminated bait.
5. Regularly observe and prevent predators from entering the breeding pool.
6. Prevent mold in food and soil.
7. Timely remove sick centipedes.
Breeding Methods
1. Box Breeding: The breeding box is made of wooden boards, with dimensions of approximately 55 cm long, 45 cm wide, and 30 cm high being appropriate. The inside walls of the box are lined with a layer of non-toxic plastic film, and the box cover is made of iron mesh. After the box is made, it is placed in an appropriate indoor position. Multiple boxes can be arranged neatly. Place multiple layers of roof tiles at the bottom of the box, with a distance of about 1.5 cm between the tiles, supported by cement around the edges. Usually, 5-6 pieces are stacked together, leaving gaps between the tiles for centipedes to rest. Before placing the tiles into the box, wash them with water and soak them thoroughly to create a humid environment for the centipedes. Replace them with a new batch of pre-prepared tiles regularly to maintain moisture and cleanliness.
2. Jar Breeding: Typically uses ceramic jars, selecting jars with a mouth width of 50-60 cm and a height of 80-100 cm. Place them in an appropriate indoor position, putting a layer of crushed stones or broken tiles at the bottom of the jar. Cover it with a 30-cm-thick layer of fertile garden soil, slightly leveled. Stack tiles on the soil surface in the same way as box breeding, with the topmost tile about 20 cm away from the jar's mouth. Cover the jar's mouth with an iron mesh lid to prevent centipedes from escaping.
3. Pool Breeding: Built indoors or outdoors, the pool is made of brick and cement structures. The internal environment must be warm, cool, moist, and quiet. Indoor pools generally have an area of about 2 square meters, rectangular in shape, with a height of 50-60 cm. The inner walls are plastered with cement without any gaps and lined with agricultural plastic film, or a 20-cm-wide glass strip is embedded around the upper part of the pool. The pool bottom is not paved with cement but first covered with a 10-cm-thick layer of small soil blocks, then stacked with 5-6 layers of tiles, leaving a 1.5-cm gap between the tiles for centipedes to rest and lay eggs for hatching. In cold regions, dig a pit 50-60 cm deep along the inner side of the pool wall at a certain distance from the wall, pile stones, broken bricks, and tiles in the pit, creating gaps for centipedes to hibernate. Cover the pool mouth tightly with an iron mesh lid or plastic mesh lid.
Reproduction Characteristics
Centipedes have a lifespan of only 6 years. After reaching sexual maturity, they usually mate in the early morning after rain in March-May and July-August. After 40 days, they start laying eggs. Female centipedes lay fertilized eggs on their backs to facilitate timely hatching. Each female centipede lays eggs for 2-3 hours at a time, producing 80-150 eggs per batch. The egg surface is rich in mucus, sticking together to form an egg mass. During the hatching period, the female centipede neither eats nor drinks until the baby centipedes hatch.
Feed
Centipedes are typical carnivorous animals with a broad diet, especially fond of various insects such as mealworms, crickets, scarab beetles, termites, cicadas, dragonflies, spiders, flies, bees, as well as their eggs, pupae, larvae, etc. They also consume silkworms, earthworms, snails, and the meat, organs, blood, cartilage, etc., of various livestock and aquatic animals. They also eat fruit peels, potatoes, carrots, tender vegetables, milk, bread, etc., as food for centipedes.
Construction of Breeding Pools
Artificial breeding of centipedes can adopt methods such as jars or pools. For jar breeding, use old tile jars or ceramic jars, preferably with a diameter of more than 0.5 meters, burying the mouth down about 20 centimeters in the soil and compacting the surrounding soil. Inside the jar, build with bricks or adobe blocks, about 10 centimeters lower than the jar's rim, leaving a certain gap between the blocks and the jar wall. If using a complete jar, do not remove the bottom; simply stack adobe blocks inside the jar. A jar with a diameter of 80 centimeters can hold about 200 adult centipedes.
For pool breeding, the breeding pool should be built in a sunny, ventilated place with convenient drainage, coolness, quietness. It can be built indoors or outdoors. Constructed with bricks or stone blocks, the interior is plastered with cement, the pool height is 80 centimeters, and the breeding pool area size is arbitrary, generally suitable at 5-10 square meters. Around the pool opening's inner side, attach smooth plastic film, or install a 15-centimeter-wide glass strip forming a right angle with the pool wall. Each square meter of the breeding pool can accommodate 500-900 adult centipedes.
Management Points
1. Prevent centipedes from escaping; centipedes are quick-tempered, and if preventive measures are not in place, they easily escape.
2. Pay attention to the breeding density, separating and grouping them based on changes in the centipede's length and size.
3. Manage temperature, humidity, and lighting, maintaining a quiet environment.
4. Ensure the cleanliness and hygiene of the feed; do not feed pesticide-contaminated bait.
5. Regularly observe and prevent predators from entering the breeding pool.
6. Prevent mold in food and soil.
7. Timely remove sick centipedes.
Centipedes belong to the class Chilopoda. Their first pair of legs is hook-shaped, sharp, with a venom gland opening at the tip of the hook, commonly referred to as palps, fangs, or toxic limbs, which can discharge venom. After being bitten by a centipede, its venom gland secretes a large amount of venom, which is injected through the fang's venom gland opening into the victim's subcutaneous tissue, causing poisoning.