CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Do you need to lay eggs every year to breed golden cicadas? Why can't you breed them? (Do you need to lay eggs every year to breed golden cicadas? Why can't you breed them?)

1. Do cicadas need to lay eggs every year?

Yes, cicadas usually choose to lay eggs on dead branches. When the eggs on these branches fall to the ground, they have a chance to enter the soil and hatch into cicada larvae in the soil. The larvae will grow up after several years, and only when they reach a certain age will they drill out of the ground and shed their shells to become cicadas. Therefore, when breeding cicadas, you must remove the branches and bury the eggs in the soil every year. Only in this way can you harvest cicadas continuously.

2. When do cicadas lay eggs and when are they harvested? Are there any requirements for temperature and humidity?

Artificial breeding of cicadas must also follow the laws of nature. Wild cicada eggs hatch around June each year and then go to the ground, so artificial breeding is also best in June. After the cicadas go to the ground, they are greatly affected by the thickness and growth rate of the parasitic root system. Generally, most of them come out after 3 years, but some come out after 2 years, and some come out after 4 years. They are unearthed in July and August each year. It is unscientific to unearth them after 18 months. 18 months is considered unearthed in winter. Unless you raise them in Dapeng, the cost is huge and it is impossible. There are no requirements for temperature and humidity during the hatching and breeding period. As long as there are wild cicadas unearthed in the local area, you can breed cicadas.

3. How to raise cicada monkeys?

The hatching of cicada egg branches is about the end of February to the end of June in the Gregorian calendar. The hatched egg branches are planted about early April to mid-July. It is not good to plant too early or too late. Reasons: (1). According to our many years of breeding practice and repeated experiments, the egg period of cicadas is generally about 280 to 300 days. In July, the cicada eggs have begun to die in large numbers, their vitality has decreased, and some have died before hatching (there are very few poplar branches left). They are very likely to die during the hatching process. The survival rate is less than 10% of the normal situation. (2). The cicada egg branches produced in the same year will not hatch small cicadas because they have a dormant period. Therefore, only the egg branches of the previous year can hatch. Don't be fooled by the unscientific promises of some farms that cicadas can be hatched at any time. (3). Some farms say that as long as they hatch and do not see small cicadas, they can still breed. This is pure nonsense. The consequence of such breeding can only be said that the survival rate is extremely low, less than 1%, and the cycle is as long as 3-5 years.

4. How often do artificial cicadas reproduce?

Cicadas reproduce by mating. Every year from June to July, they transform from pupae into adults and then lay eggs in just a few days. The process from eggs to nymphs living underground, until the last molting to become adults, singing loudly in the trees, usually takes one to two years.

Golden cicadas usually reproduce from the end of June to the end of August every year, and they usually reproduce only once in their lifetime. Golden cicadas are a representative species of insects in the animal kingdom, arthropoda, class insecta, order Homoptera, and family Cicadidae. They have the biological characteristics of gradual metamorphosis, and they go through three stages in their life: egg, nymph, and adult.

5. Why is it forbidden to raise cicadas?

There is no ban on breeding cicadas, and the country allows breeding of cicadas.

Golden cicada is a representative species of insects in the Arthropoda, Insecta, Homoptera, and Cicadidae of the animal kingdom. The whole reproductive period will go through three stages: egg, nymph, and adult. The nymph stage is often called cicada monkey, old turtle, hunchback, cicada turtle, climbing fork, climbing crotch black grasshopper cicada, etc. Golden cicada has a unique flavor, rich nutrition, and good medicinal and food health care effects. The current market demand is increasing.