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How to raise grasshoppers How to raise grasshoppers so they don't die

1. The lifespan of a grasshopper is only one year, so you need to be careful when raising it. Use a small fish tank, cover it with soil and vegetable leaves, and put a few grasshoppers in it. This way the grasshoppers can mate and lay eggs, and you don't have to worry too much about their death.

2. Pay attention to feeding. Feed grasshoppers more tender grass, fresh leaves, corn kernels, wheat, sorghum, millet and other foods to improve their nutrition. If you are not sure whether there are pesticides on the food, wash it with clean water before feeding it to the grasshoppers.

3. Pay attention to the diet of grasshoppers during the breeding period. In order to increase the reproduction rate of grasshoppers, you must control the diet of grasshoppers. Also, you cannot let the grasshoppers be too hungry, otherwise they will eat the small grasshoppers, so you must feed them more at noon.

How to raise grasshoppers at home

1. Site selection: Choose a place with good ventilation and plenty of sunshine.

2. Eliminate natural enemies: Before building a nest, use methods such as capturing, trapping, and boiling water to eliminate all ants, mole crickets, etc. on the ground. Because the above animals are the natural enemies of locusts, they can prey on locusts and destroy locust eggs, so these animals must not be allowed to exist in the shed.

3. Ground: The ground of the nest should be 10-15 cm higher than the surrounding ground to facilitate drainage in the rainy season. Sandy loam is the best soil, which is not easy to clump and is convenient for laying eggs and collecting eggs. The soil should not be too soft, as locusts have high requirements for laying eggs.

4. Density: The area of ​​the shed depends on the number of locusts. Generally, 600-800 adults can be raised per square meter.

5. Build a nest: According to your own conditions, you can use sticks and bamboo strips to build a shed support. According to the size of the shed, use gauze to make a shed cover like a mosquito net, hang it on the shed, bury the bottom edge in the ground, leave a door, and press a zipper on the door. This is to prevent locusts from escaping and to facilitate feeding and management in the shed. The height of the shed can be 1.5-2 meters. In order to keep warm or prevent rain, you can cover the outside of the shed with plastic cloth. When the temperature is high and the locusts are large (more than three years old), they are not afraid of rain, so you don’t need to cover them with plastic cloth. If you use natural conditions to breed migratory locusts, the construction of the shed must be completed before the end of April.

6. There should be corn and other taller plants in the shed for isolation.