CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What do centipedes eat?

1. What do centipedes eat?

Centipedes are carnivorous animals that like to eat various insects, such as locusts, crickets, cicadas, grasshoppers, dragonflies, spiders, etc.

2. What do centipedes eat?

Eat mealworms, crickets, beetles, termites, cicadas, dragonflies, wasps, and their eggs, pupae, larvae, etc.

3. What do centipedes eat?

They eat small animals, and can catch small lizards and mice. All centipedes are carnivores, usually earthworms or other small insects, but some centipedes that live in tropical areas are very large.

4. What do centipedes eat?

Centipede is a typical carnivore with a wide range of food habits. It especially likes to eat various insects, such as mealworms, crickets, beetles, termites, cicadas, dragonflies, spiders, flies, bees and their eggs, pupae and larvae. It also eats worms, earthworms, snails and various livestock and poultry, meat, viscera, blood, cartilage, etc. of aquatic animals, as well as fruit peels, potatoes, carrots, young vegetables, etc. Other things such as milk and bread can also be food for centipedes.

5. What do centipedes eat?

The animal feed that centipedes like to eat includes: earthworms, woodlice, spiders, dragonflies, earthworms, mantises, locusts, crickets, oil gourds, mole crickets, cicadas, backworms, wasps, various fish, frogs, geckos, mutton, beef, rabbit meat, eggs, chicken, sparrow meat, snake meat, big-headed golden flies, centipedes, silkworm pupae, goat milk, cow milk, etc. When animal feed is in short supply, they also eat plant feed.

Centipedes usually come out at night, and their peak activity period is from 20:00 to 23:00. They are characterized by being more active at night and less active during the day; more active when the temperature is above 25℃, and less active at 10-15℃; more active at night after rain, and less active on rainy nights; more active on windless or breezy nights, and less active on windy nights (wind force above level 6). It can be seen that the frequency of centipede activity is closely related to meteorological factors such as temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, rainfall, and light intensity.

According to the above characteristics, the feeding of centipedes should follow certain rules, rather than being unchanging. The rules that must be followed are: generally feed at a fixed point before sunset so that centipedes can form conditioned reflexes and cultivate the regularity of eating. At the same time, they must not violate the laws of nature. On hot and humid nights after rain, centipedes are more active and have a better appetite, so the amount of feed can be increased in time; in bad weather such as strong winds or rain, the amount of feed should be reduced or even not fed. In short, the impact of meteorological factors on centipede activity should be fully considered and feeding should be reasonable.

3. Reasonably control the breeding density and prevent centipedes from killing each other

If the centipedes live in too high a density or are disturbed too much, they are prone to killing each other. However, under breeding conditions, with the improvement of living environment and breeding conditions, such as providing enough fresh feed and water, and not disturbing their lives, even if the breeding density is high, it will not have much impact on their lives. In particular, centipedes born from the same mother have lived together since childhood, and when they grow up, they will curl up together in dozens and can live in harmony. Therefore, providing enough fresh feed and water and maintaining a quiet environment are necessary conditions for artificial breeding of centipedes.

Unless it is necessary to cultivate seedlings, try to avoid mixing young centipedes produced in different breeding ponds.