How to breed centipedes? How to manage centipedes? What is the market prospect of centipedes? The Agri-Science惠民Specialty tells you about the living characteristics of centipedes.
1. Habitat Environment
Centipedes are afraid of sunlight, they hide during the day and come out at night. They like to live in dark, warm, rain-sheltered, and well-ventilated places. They mainly live in low mountain areas with more rocks and less soil. Although they are distributed in plain regions, their numbers are relatively fewer there. Centipedes have an extremely strong ability to burrow into crevices. They often use their sensitive antennae and flat head plates to probe holes and crevices. Most rock and soil fissures can be passed through or used as habitats. If the density is too high or if they are disturbed too much, it may lead to mutual killing and death. However, under artificial breeding conditions, when bait and drinking water are sufficient, dozens of them can coexist together.
How to breed centipedes? How to manage centipedes? What is the market prospect of centipedes? The Agri-Science惠民Specialty tells you:
2. Activity and Feeding Habits
Centipedes are typical carnivorous animals, ferocious in nature. Their food range is extensive, especially favoring small insects. They have venomous jaw claws that can even kill animals larger than themselves. There are also instances where centipedes of the same species mutually kill each other by poisoning. The insects consumed by centipedes include crickets, locusts, June bugs, cicadas, grasshoppers, various flies, bees, and even spiders, earthworms, snails, as well as frogs, mice, sparrows, lizards, and snakes much larger than their bodies. In early spring when food is scarce, they can also eat a small amount of young grass and moss shoots. During artificial feeding, some people feed them loaches, fresh fish, frogs, shrimp, and crabs, but it is required that the food be fresh; even slight spoilage will prevent them from eating.
Egg-laying and Hatching Techniques
Centipedes are oviparous. Every late spring to early summer, the eggs in the ovaries gradually mature. The average number of eggs laid is between 20 to 60, mostly around 40 to 50, with some laying fewer than 10. The egg-laying season is from late June to early August, i.e., from the Summer Solstice to the Beginning of Autumn, with the peak egg-laying period being in early to mid-July. Before laying eggs, the centipede's abdomen almost tightly adheres to the ground, digging a shallow hole on its own. When laying eggs, the centipede’s body curves into an S-shape, the last few pairs of legs prop up the body, the tail curls upward, and the antennae stretch forward. Then, the eggs are discharged one by one from the genital opening in a string-like manner. Under undisturbed conditions, the smooth egg-laying process takes about 2 to 3 hours. After laying the eggs, the centipede skillfully turns its body sideways, using its legs to gather the eggs into a cluster, holding them in its arms for incubation. If disturbed while laying eggs, the centipede will stop laying eggs or eat all the eggs currently being incubated, which is known as the protective response of centipedes. The hatching time for centipedes lasts 43 to 50 days. During this period, the mother centipede never leaves the eggs or the young ones, carefully guarding them. Sometimes, the lower half of her body and antennae sway and sweep left and right, driving away nearby small insects. She often uses her feeding claws to manipulate or lick the egg cluster and the young ones. It is speculated that centipedes may secrete certain substances from their oral glands and coxal glands to prevent bacterial infections or contamination of the egg cluster. The eggs are elliptical in shape and vary in size.
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