Oil hyacinth habits, how to raise oil hyacinth

Oil hyacinth is a common group of crickets, which is harmful to crops, and some species are model animals for behavioral and neurobiological studies.

Habits. It feeds on the roots, stems, and leaves of various plants, and has certain harm to crops such as soybeans, peanuts, yams, potatoes, chestnuts, cotton, and wheat.

It hides under rocks or grass during the day, and comes out at night to feed and mate, and the male builds a burrow to live with the female. When two males meet, they bite each other and have the habit of killing each other, just like fighting crickets.

This insect occurs in most parts of our country in one year one generation, winters in the soil with eggs, turns into nymphs in the late spring of the following year when the weather warms, turns into adults at the end of summer, and ends summer and early autumn for its peak period, at this time in the wilderness, its chirping can be heard everywhere, one after another, continuously.

Oil gourd is also known as knot yellow, oil pot Lu, because its whole body is shiny and shiny, as if it has just been fished out of the oil bottle, and because of its sound like the sound of oil pouring out of the gourd, but also because its adults love to eat all kinds of oil plants, such as peanuts, soybeans, sesame, etc., so it gets the name of "oil gourd".

Exterior features. Cricket insects.

Body length 20 30 mm, width 6 8 mm, antennae brown, length 20 30 mm. There are many kinds of body colors, such as black brown and yellowish brown, and it is shiny and oily.

The head is black, spherical, the face is yellowish-brown, and from the back of the head, the two antennae are in the shape of a figure eight, and the antennal socket is black around it.

The dorsal plate of the prothorax is black-brown with symmetrical pale markings, and the lower half of the lateral plate is pale colored. The forewings are brown and shiny on the back and yellow on the sides. The tail whiskers are very long, can exceed the femoral segments of the hind feet, the wings are long, and they can fly. The female's oviposition lobes are straight and longer than the femoral segment of the hindfoot.

Population distribution.

A few days ago, I grabbed a few oil hyacinths from the Golden State Garden and kept them at home.

I put him in the box and observed: they had black and yellow heads, strong hind legs, and their special "musical instruments".

I put the lentils in the box, and it was said on the Internet that it should leave immediately after putting food on it, otherwise it would not eat the food, but I verified that this statement was wrong, and before the lentils were finished, they immediately ate in a big gulp, revealing their teeth like pincers, which gave people a ferocious feeling.

One day, I put two oil gourds into a box, and then use the dog's tail grass, one by one to touch the tentacles, sure enough, the two of them fought, each showing the pincer teeth, the fight was particularly fierce, I didn't expect the oil gourd to fight so hard, not long, they didn't fight, but they all made a crisp scream, called for a while, and fought again, I was full of doubts, checked the computer, oh, it turned out that during the fight, the scream was to call the opponent to fight, heads-up, and boost their morale! I realized that crickets still understand this.

One day, I put in a female oil gourd to see if the female oil gourd is also a kind of fierce cricket, and as soon as I put it in, the male oil gourd circles around this female oil gourd, as if to say, "Who is it?" "All make defensive postures.

I saw that the female oil gourd jumped in front of a male oil gourd, as if she had taken a fancy to it, but the male oil gourd did not appreciate it, and turned his head sharply to show his pincer teeth, as if to warn the female oil gourd not to come. At this time, another oil gourd played a beautiful ** with its "musical instrument". Attracted, mother oil gourd, listen to my cousin:

The male oil gourd is courting. ”

Feeding container: cultivated oil hyacinth.

, you need to prepare a ceramic jar or cage for it. Feeding management: Provide food such as loofah, pumpkin, cabbage leaves, apples, rice grains, etc.

Keep warm in winter: Put the oil gourd in a plastic box in winter and wrap it in cotton. Notes:

Feed yourself with water once a week to make sure you are well hydrated.

1. Feeding containers

When breeding oil hyacinth, it is necessary to provide containers suitable for the local environment, ceramic jars can be used in Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang and other regions, and crickets can be used in Jiangxi and central and southern China.

cage, and the container should be cleaned and disinfected to avoid the death of the oil hyacinth.

2. Feeding management

Oil hyacinth likes to eat plant feed, when breeding oil hyacinth, it needs to provide apples, lychees, rice, loofahs, cabbage, green cabbage leaves, rice grains, etc., and when the temperature drops, it is necessary to give oil hyacinth slightly wet minced pork, minced beef, etc., to enhance cold resistance.

3. Keep warm in winter

Oil hyacinth cold tolerance is poor, when the temperature is lower than 5 degrees will be frozen to death, when breeding oil hyacinth, it needs to be put into a plastic box before winter, and then poke a few small holes in the plastic box to make the inside and outside air circulation, and then wrap the plastic box with cotton.

4. Precautions

When breeding oil hyacinth, you need to feed drinking water once a week, you can provide it with tap water, mineral water or well water after drying, but the drinking water can not be provided too much, so as not to be humid and food spoilage, and can not put two male oil hyacinth into the same container.

1. First of all, you must choose a good container, under normal circumstances, buy a large finishing box on Oak, if you are afraid of spending money. It is also possible to use an idle fish tank, but it must be smooth on all sides. Oil hyacinth has a strong climbing ability.

As for the size of the container, it depends on how much it is raised. The largest container we have seen on the market can breed about 500 birds. Don't overdo it.

It will lead to killing each other......

2. Lay a layer of clean soil without chemical fertilizers and pesticide residues under the breeding box. According to my observations, the survival rate of terrariums with soil is much higher than that of non-paved terrariums.

3. Place the egg crate upright to give them a safe place to hide. So as not to fight, and if you can't find the egg cray, you can also use toilet paper. Don't have to be toilet paper... This is important because oil hyacinths love to nibble on paper products even when they are full.

4. Feeding In terms of feeding, you can use fresh fruits and vegetables. They must be washed, and fruits and vegetables are generally cut into small thin strips. There are several benefits to doing this, 1) it saves food.

Make the food as much as possible for each bug. 2) Even if you can't finish eating, the water will evaporate quickly. It doesn't grow hair.

3) The mouth of the insect is small, of course you have to eat a smaller one.

Eat all meat every once in a while, so that the insects can have a balanced nutrition. They can be fed with bread worms. Use a lower vessel.

Then cut the bread worms with a knife. Prevent them from escaping.

You can also feed some rice on weekdays. Cornmeal ......It's best to sprinkle vitamins on top of food, and they'll eat them together. Don't forget, what they eat is what your Arowana eats.

Raise it this way, and your dragon will be able to eat delicious bugs at any time. Finally, it is important to emphasize that the breeding environment does not have to be too humid. so as not to breed bacteria.

1.Tributary. Feeders vary from place to place due to different traditional habits. Some areas in Jiangsu, Shandong, and Zhejiang like to use ceramic crickets.

Pots raise crickets, and Jiangxi, central and southern regions.

The traditional custom is to use cricket cages. In recent years, transparent plastic rectangular insect cages have appeared on the market. All of these feeders can be used.

2.Fodder. Oil hyacinth.

The feed is mainly plant feed, which can be fed with loofah, pumpkin, cabbage leaves, cabbage leaves, apples, rice grains, etc. In winter, you can feed some minced pork or beef to increase their body fat.

Enhance their ability to withstand the cold. Feed varieties should be changed frequently, rather than being fed one all the time.

3.Winter feeding precautions.

Before winter, you should pay attention to keeping warm, put it in the gourd (leave a vent) to feed, and the outside can be covered with cotton. It can also sing in a gourd. When it feels warm, it emits a "hot breath".

If the temperature drops, a "cold breath" is emitted. It doesn't matter if it's hot or cold, every time you hear it, you have to deliver food. In this way, as long as there is a temperature difference, it will sing because of the conditioned reflex.

Also, you must pay attention to the humidity when raising oil hyacinth. If you have to drink some water often, will you roll up your tentacles and die of lack of water; Don't get too wet, it can easily lead to food spoilage.