How to breed and propagate breadworms: preparing tools, selecting seeds, choosing feeds, post management, and oviposition.

1, prepare tools

You can use an old washbasin as a feeding utensil, the old washbasin is required to have no holes and smooth inner wall. If the inner wall is not smooth, you can put a circle of tape to enclose a smooth band to prevent the worms from escaping. A 60-mesh sieve is also required. It should be placed in a warm, ventilated, dry, light-proof, clean and chemical-free place.

2, selecting species

Select the larval species with large individuals, strong vitality and bright colors, and put them into face pots to raise, ordinary pots can raise larvae of 0.3-0.6 kg, and the density of raising is small in high temperature in summer, and a little bit larger in winter.

3, choose feed

You can feed wheat bran, corn meal and other feed, feed amount of 10% to 20% of the weight of the worm, can also be 3 to 5 days can be larvae eaten by whichever. After the worms eat the feed, use a 60-mesh sieve to sift out the worm droppings and continue to feed the feed, and feed the feed with high moisture content such as vegetables and melon peels appropriately.

4, late management

Breadworms are cold hardy, but the optimal temperature for breeding larvae is 25 to 29 ℃, below 10 ℃ very little activity, below 0 ℃ or above 35 ℃ there is a risk of freezing or heat death. Breadworms are drought-resistant, with an ideal feed moisture content of 15% and air humidity of 50%~80%. Attention should be paid to the prevention and control of dry blight, rot disease (soft rot), blackhead disease, mites and other pests and diseases, but also to prevent rats, birds, geckos, ants and so on.

5, oviparous reproduction

Breadworm is oviparous reproduction. Adults mate after the 3rd or 4th day of feathering and lay eggs within 30 days of feathering. Its life can be divided into four stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Eggs are oval, creamy white, with spots on the surface of the first hatch larvae are creamy white and then turn yellowish brown Pupa is initially white and translucent, with a soft body that gradually turns brown and hardens Adults are flattened and long oval, with sheathed wings that are initially beige, turn reddish brown after 3 hours, and then turn blackish brown after 3 to 4 days.