Sichuan Daxian Centipede Breeding, Sichuan Yibin Centipede Breeding Technology, Sichuan Luzhou Centipede Breeding Prospects
The Agricultural Science Benefiting the People Breeding Farm specializes in breeding golden head centipedes and feed mealworms, integrating farming, sales, and product recycling into a large-scale breeding farm. With a pragmatic and honest approach, it helps many customers breed golden head centipedes and feed mealworms, achieving the greatest return with the least investment.
Supported by Huazhong Agricultural University: A key university under the national "211 Project" - Huazhong Agricultural University collaborates with Wuhan Agricultural Science Benefiting the People Biological Engineering Co., Ltd. to jointly research and focus on scientifically promoting agriculture and enriching farmers through centipede breeding technology: Golden Head Centipede No. 2 for the people's benefit.
Advanced Technical Advantages: Through years of breeding observation, multiple biological experts and professors of biological engineering from Wuhan Agricultural Science Benefiting the People Biological Engineering Co., Ltd. and Huazhong Agricultural University have used selected purification techniques and biological gene improvement projects to cultivate a new generation variety - Golden Head Centipede No. 2 for the people's benefit. After breeding observation, this variety is easy to raise, has a gentle temperament, strong adaptability, fast growth, high reproduction rate, better medicinal value, and more significant economic value, making it an ideal investment breeding project for many breeding enthusiasts.
Complete Breeding Facilities: The company leverages agricultural science as its advantage and life sciences as its characteristic, relying on experts and scholars from the Animal Science and Technology College. Focusing on modern bioengineering, special breeding, and insect resource development, it integrates scientific research, breeding, 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, and greenhouses. It also has separate technical training centers, seedling breeding centers, germplasm rooms, hatching rooms, and gene transfer rooms, providing excellent infrastructure and a complete system.
Wuhan Agricultural Science Benefiting the People Company: Upholding the tradition of "diligent reading and hard work, self-improvement and benefiting others," our company aims for "scientific agriculture promotion" as its mission, adopting the business philosophy of "integrity, dedication, realism, innovation, and win-win" to drive the industrial development of centipede resources. We are committed to providing our fellow farmers with higher-quality and higher-yield seedlings, advanced technology, and comprehensive services, enabling us to keep pace with the times and create a brighter future together.
Wuhan Agricultural Science Benefiting the People Centipede Breeding Official Website: hm9188.com/index1.asp
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Hubei Agricultural Science Benefiting the People Centipede Breeding Base Address: Room 318, Tianhui Building, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuchang District, Wuhan City
1) Living Habits
Centipedes mainly live in rocky, less-soil low mountainous areas, with only a small distribution in plains regions. After the Awakening of Insects each year, as temperatures warm up, centipedes awaken from their winter sleep and start emerging from the ground to become active, often residing in shady, damp grasslands or among piles of stones. From Grain in Ear to Summer Solstice, as temperatures gradually rise, they gradually move to cool ditches, graveyards, ridges, or soil embankment crevices to avoid the heat of the day. In late autumn, they tend to inhabit wind-sheltered, sun-facing loose soil slopes or warmer tree holes and roots. In summary, centipedes fear light and prefer dimness, are active at night and rest during the day, preferring to live in dark, humid, warm, and well-ventilated caves. Therefore, when artificially breeding centipedes, one must create living conditions according to their habits. For example, planting trees and grass, placing bricks and tiles, etc., are measures taken to meet the requirements of centipedes for their living environment.
Centipedes usually come out alone at night. Although they have eight simple eyes, their vision is weak, especially during the day. When moving separately, they only avoid each other when their antennae touch. On clear, windless nights, between 20:00 to 23:00 is their peak activity period. Their activity characteristics are more active at night and less active during the day; more active when the temperature exceeds 25°C, less active between 10～15°C; almost inactive below 10°C; more active on hot, rainy nights, less active on cold nights; more active on windless or slightly windy nights, less active on windy (wind force above six) nights; more active after rain and less active on rainy nights. Therefore, the frequency of centipede activities is closely related to meteorological factors such as temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, rainfall, and light intensity. So, when artificially breeding centipedes, attention should be paid to the impact of these meteorological factors on their lives. Meanwhile, centipedes have a strong ability to burrow, so they can smoothly pass through rock and soil gaps and inhabit these cracks.
In situations where the density of centipedes' living space is too large or there are too many disturbances, mutual killing and death may occur easily. However, under breeding conditions, with the improvement of living environment and feeding conditions, such as providing sufficient fresh feed and water sources without disturbing their lives excessively, even if the breeding density is relatively high, it will not significantly affect their lives. Especially for centipedes born from the same mother who have lived together since childhood, even dozens of them curling together can coexist harmoniously. Therefore, providing enough fresh feed and water sources, 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. Based on their preference for shade, moisture, quietness, and aversion to strong light, choose forest-covered or shaded slopes as capture sites. Place chicken feathers, animal bones, or dry grass and leaves in these areas to lure centipedes to nest and lay eggs. Collect the eggs before the Qingming Festival. When collecting eggs, bring back the soil along with branches and grass together, place them in the breeding pool or breeding tank, cover them, and incubate. During the incubation period, gently turn the covering material frequently to prevent other pests from invading and ensure the smooth and safe hatching of larvae.
(3) Feeding Management
1) Feed: Centipedes are typical carnivorous insects, quite fierce, capturing various small animals with their venomous mandibles. Observations from the wild and trials indicate that centipedes' feed includes several categories: one category consists of various insects such as crickets, locusts, tobacco bugs, June beetles, rice bagworms, hornworms, cicadas, grasshoppers, dragonflies, spiders, flies, bees, and their adults, pupae, larvae, and eggs. Another category includes worms, earthworms, snails, slugs, and vertebrates like frogs, snakes, lizards, geckos, sparrows, mice, and bats' muscles, bones, and internal organs. A third category includes eating some tender grasses, twigs, root tips, watermelons, cucumbers, and other fruits as well as cooked products like eggs, milk, bread when their preferred food sources are insufficient. Additionally, centipedes bred in Zhejiang Province primarily eat loaches, eels, small fish, shrimp, and crabs.
Although centipedes have a wide and varied diet, they require fresh food and do not eat rotten food. Therefore, when breeding artificially, fresh feed must be provided every 2 to 3 days. Before feeding, all leftover food from the previous feeding must be thoroughly removed. Centipedes have a large appetite but can endure hunger well. When hungry, they can consume up to 1/5 to 3/5 of their body weight in one meal. After eating full, they can survive without food for ten to fifteen days. Moreover, centipedes cannot tolerate thirst and need water daily. Therefore, water containers must be placed in the breeding area, and water must be changed regularly to keep it fresh and clean.
2) Egg-laying and Hatching: The egg-laying season for centipedes is at the end of spring and beginning of summer each year. Each female centipede generally lays 20 to 60 eggs, mostly 40 to 50, with fewer than 10 eggs 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 bends into an "S" shape, producing eggs one by one in a string into the self-dug shallow hole. Without external disturbance, egg-laying takes about 2 to 3 hours. After laying, the centipede immediately turns its body sideways, using its legs to gather the eggs into a cluster and hatches them in its "arms." The eggs laid by centipedes are elliptical, varying in size, with a general diameter of about 3 to 3.5 mm, yellowish in color, semi-transparent, and with elastic egg membranes.
Centipedes take a long time to hatch eggs, generally requiring 43 to 50 days. During the hatching process, both the external appearance and internal structure of the eggs change continuously with the embryo's development. After a month, the eggs begin to show larval shapes, about 1.2 cm in length, visible through the movement of the larvae inside the egg membrane; after 35 to 40 days, the larvae are about 1.5 cm in length, capable of climbing up and down but still unable to leave the mother's body; after 43 to 45 days, the larvae are about 2.5 cm in length, able to leave the mother's body and seek food independently. Throughout the egg-hatching period, the mother already has sufficient nutrients stored and does not need to be fed. Otherwise, it could cause contamination of the eggs or larvae by food, leading the mother to consume them, affecting the hatching rate and survival rate of the larvae.