Golden Cicadas
Golden Cicadas Edible Methods Introduction
Grasshopper wakame is also known as robin's tongue, robin's monkey, etc., and the adult is also known as the black cicada, is a representative species of the cicada family of insects, many regions of our country have the custom to eat grasshoppers and their wakame, in Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong and other places are particularly prevalent, and the most common way of consumption for the The most common way of consumption is "deep-frying golden cicadas". Cicada wakame (robin's tortoise) has extremely high medicinal nutritional value and unique taste, which is the best among edible insects, and has now become a famous dish adapted to a variety of different grades of occasions. Especially just out of the ground of the worm containing protein 58.58% -72%, fat 10.23%, all potassium 0.3%, all phosphorus 0.58%, calcium 16.5 mg / kg, zinc 82.2 mg / kg. It is a rare high-protein, low-fat game delicacies.
Golden Cicada Artificial Incubation Farming Method
Golden Cicada is a kind of medicinal herbs with high medicinal value hatched under the egg, which has the efficacy of clearing blood and resolving silt, health care, and has a certain therapeutic effect on high blood pressure. However, the existing golden cicadas have the disadvantage of long growth cycle, low survival rate and not suitable for collection. We after several years of research and testing, according to the growth habit of the golden cicada, summed up a set of golden cicada breeding technology.
I. Egg collection: Egg collection is in the fall after the golden cicadas spawn, generally around the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Golden cicadas are
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tail small spines into the annual shoots, the eggs are laid into the branches, mostly fruit trees and other juicy branches are mainly, after the spawning of the branches will be dry, so most of the lower end of the green and the end of the dry branches have cicada eggs.
Second, post-harvest treatment: after the collection of branches with cicada eggs, remove dry leaves, cut off the ends, thirty bundled into a bundle, with a large laundry basin bottom layer of sand, will be bundled into the basin standing, the temperature is maintained at 28-34 degrees, humidity is to keep wet, that is, in the event of drying that is sprayed, sprayed with a sprayer aimed at the branches sprayed wet until.
Three, hatching: about forty-five days or so that the larvae hatch. At this time you will see a part of the larvae crawling up and down the branches. About 20% of the hatching larvae should be buried, burying pits to choose more soft hairy roots of the region, so that the larvae can absorb the nutrients on the roots, the best choice in the planting of poplar, willow and its fruit trees in broad-leaved tree plots.
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Four, seeding: dig the pit into a strip, the depth to dig to the main hairy roots, the width of a shovel. Put the branches of the hatched larvae into the pit along the pit, and the larvae will hold the plant roots by themselves. The soil should be returned gently and slowly. After returning the soil can not be stepped on, not to mention watering, in order to maintain breathability.
V. Harvesting: If there are trees, more than one meter with transparent tape wrapped around a circle to ensure that the cicada insects will not climb high metamorphosis. Cicada ants sowing date 18 - 24 months that is adult.
Six, tips: collection of cicada eggs to ash strips, fruit tree branches mainly, cicada egg larvae are feeding on the sap of the plant root system, so it is best to choose a multi-root zone when burying. Each branch contains 200-400 cicada eggs, so 500-800 branches per mu is appropriate to ensure the survival rate. This method of planting gold cicadas makes the original growth period of 3-5 years advance to 18 months, the incubation period is increased from one year to about 40 days, and the survival rate is increased from 6% to about 30% - 60%. So it is especially suitable for rural farming.
Nowadays, the price of golden cicadas has risen all the way up, and the golden cicadas have been served on the table of large and small restaurants. Prospects are favorable. With this method of planting gold cicadas with a high survival rate, each acre of land according to the minimum survival rate of 30%, but also live about 100,000, according to each ten cents, but also income of tens of thousands of dollars.
Fried golden cicadas
In China, many regions have eaten grasshoppers (which is the representative species of the cicada family of insects, adults are also known as golden cicadas, if the worm is commonly known as the robin's turtle) and its worms (i.e., robin's turtles) custom, especially prevalent in Shandong, the most common way of eating "fried golden cicadas". Cicada worms have very high nutritional value, medicinal value and unique taste, which is the best among edible insects, and has become a famous dish adapted to different grades and different occasions. On the other hand, the grasshopper old maturity of the adult worm changes, feathering shedding shell date cicada molt (also known as "cicada retreat" or "cicada skin"), whose main component contains chitin and protein, sweet, salty, cold, into the lungs, the liver meridian, is an important pungent and cool antidepressant traditional Chinese medicine.
However, due to the destruction of the environment, trees were cut down, the living environment of grasshoppers and wakame was seriously damaged, resulting in the natural production of wakame and so on, and the market price has been rising year after year and remains high. Due to the increasing demand of the society, it is far from enough to meet the market requirement just by collecting, for this reason, many places have begun to shift the way of collecting natural resources to the artificial scale breeding. Below, according to our three years of practical experience and grasp of the relevant information focus on the grasshopper artificial culture technology is introduced as follows:
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First of all, the natural habits of the grasshopper: grasshoppers are generally 3-5 years to complete a generation. To egg groups in the current year or biennial young branches and the age of the worm concentrated in the soil on the plant root system overwintering, that is, the overwintering insect state for two kinds, eggs and different sizes of wakame; overwintering place is also divided into two kinds of environment on the ground and underground. Overwintering eggs begin to hatch in mid-May of the following year, with the incubation period from late May to early June, and the end of incubation activities in late June. The egg period is close to 300 days. The activities of the overwintering insects are most affected by the ground temperature and the sap of the host plant. When the low temperature is higher than 10℃～15℃, the sap of the tree starts to flow, and the overwintering insects start to sting and suck the food activity. Worms that hatch from overwintering eggs (called cicada ants), dive into the soil and suck sap at the roots of host plants. As they grow in age, they create soil chambers of different sizes and shapes in which they live. A part of the wall of the soil chamber is attached to the plant roots for feeding. When the temperature drops in the fall, it burrows into the deep soil layer to overwinter, and then migrates upward to the vicinity of the tree roots when the spring warms up. In May of the year, the number of wakame in the soil is the largest, when a large number of overwintering eggs hatch into the soil, and is the last age of wakame about to come out of the soil to molt into adult period. In the soil to complete the entire life process of the worm, mature worms in late May to mid to late August from the soil and crawl to the shrub branches, weed stems, etc., with the claws and forelegs of the thorns fixed in the bark of the branches and leaves, molting into adults. mid-June to mid-July for the adult emergence of the peak period, the end of the early October for the end of the period. About 20 days after the adult plumage, cross to lay eggs, began to lay eggs in late June, the end of June to late August for the adult egg-laying period, early September to early October for the end of the egg-laying period. The final sighting of adults is in early November. Adults are mostly feathered at night from 8 to 10 o'clock and in the morning from 4 to 6 o'clock, and the ratio of males to females is basically maintained at 1:1. Adults often perch on the tops of tree trunks and branches, and have the habit of fighting fires at night. Adults lay eggs on branches of 2 to 7 millimeters in thickness in the second year, and the eggs are laid in the xylem of the branch tips, and the egg nests are densely connected. Each egg nest has 6 to 8 eggs, an egg-laying branch has 12 to 479 eggs, generally 20 to 200, with an average of 146 eggs. Each branch has 6 to 146 egg holes. Each female generally carries 500 to more than 1000 eggs in her abdomen. Adult life expectancy of about 3 months, the occurrence period is generally in July to September each year. Adult cicadas have wings and can fly, and live by sucking nutritious sap from young branches of trees with stinging sucking mouthparts. After mating, the female cicada inserts an ovipositor into the xylem of the current year's or second year's tender branches before laying eggs. At the same time make the tender branches dehydrated and dry and die, so it will cause harm to the trees. Grasshopper likes hawthorn, peach tree, apple, elm and other trees with loose wood and more juice. Plus its artificial culture technology: breeding grasshoppers, to be successful, should mainly grasp the seed source to obtain, host plant selection, feeding place selection, protective measures configuration "six rings":
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The first ring: to obtain the seed source of the golden cicada. The acquisition of primary seed source can be collected naturally in the field, eggs, worms, adults can be collected as seed source. 7 ~ September can be collected in each insect state; August to September is the best season to collect worms; September is the best time to collect cicada eggs twigs, can be collected throughout the year. Egg collection can choose the ideal place where the trees are dense and there are many cicadas, use fruit branch scissors or a long pole with a hook at the top, take down the 1~2 years old thin dry and withered strips of the tree which are killed by the grasshopper spawning, all of them are flattened and dry on one side and the surface is incomplete, there are a lot of milky-white and long oval eggs embedded in the subcortical xylem, that is, the cicada eggs, cut off the excess withered tips of the upper part of the ovipositor nest without eggs, and leave out the lower part of the ovipositor nest scar for 10~15 centimeters without eggs. Cut off the excess eggless dead tips on the upper part of the nest, leave 10-15 centimeters of eggless branches on the lower part of the nest mark and put about 50 of them into a small bundle in a plastic bag. Capture of the wakame, the natural maturity of the old mature wakame as the object, the collection of wakame can be in the evening at 7 ~ 12 o'clock at the base of the main trunk of the tree with a flashlight to capture; after the collection of the yarn cage into the egg-laying. Spawning screen cage planted shrub-like hosts, to a variety of live fruit trees. There are many ways to capture adult cicadas in trees, such as using fire traps at night. In order to ensure that adult cicadas are not damaged, you can use wheat gluten sticky capture, the method is to and good dough rinsed with water many times to remove starch, leaving pure gluten, stored in a wide lotus leaves, poplar leaves, stick in the top of the bamboo poles, in the early morning or during the day sticky capture adult insects.
The second ring: golden cicada egg branch colonization. The object of seed colonization is the first hatchling and the eggs that are close to hatching. The branches with eggs collected directly from the field or in the seed source site,
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Concentrated indoors to promote hatching. Methods: in the length of 70 cm, 40 cm wide, 20 cm high plastic box, the bottom of the spread 5 ~ 10 cm thick fine dry sand, will be placed in bundles of egg branches vertical or horizontal on it, constantly with a small sprayer spray mist water, to maintain a high degree of humidity in the air around the egg branches, so that excess water droplets adsorbed in the bottom of the fine sand. In the middle of the egg hatching situation should be constantly spot-checked, found that the activities of the caterpillar, you can colonize the branches together with fine sand in the breeding site. Colonization time is generally in September to October (two years of eggs) or June to July (the current year's eggs). In the feeding place of the host plant tree under the ground away from the base of the trunk about 1 meter, digging about 30 to 50 cm deep regular narrow grooves, such as ring, square, triangular, parallel or radial and other shapes, the purpose is to later digging and harvesting. After "colonization", cover the soil and compact it, and keep a good record of time, quantity, shape and depth of the "colonization" ditch. Grasshoppers from the egg stage to grow and develop into mature worms, need to grow underground for three winters and summers (actually 2 years): the first year from June to start growing, the year's growth weight is only about 1 grams; the second year the weight of the development of about 3 grams; the third year of the development of mature worms, weighing 4.5 to 5 grams.
The third ring: supply high-quality feed to the golden cicada. Choose healthy trees with developed root systems, lush growth and more juice, such as poplar, elm, willow, tung or various fruit trees in the orchard. Also intercropped potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams and some other root plants
The fourth ring: provide good environmental conditions. Golden cicadas "colonization" depth of 30 to 50 centimeters is appropriate, to the sun and frost, the soil is soft, fertile, non-polluting; can not be too dry, not too high water content or the existence of waterlogging phenomenon, to ensure that the root system of the host plant the normal growth and development of young, developed and succulent. In winter, the colonized area should be covered with wheat straw, rice straw, corn stalks, etc. to maintain the ground temperature.
The fifth ring: building adult and wakame production facilities. In addition to natural harvesting of cicada eggs, screen mesh greenhouses can be built to provide space for adult egg laying. You can use the fruit trees in the abandoned orchard, you can replant fruit tree live seedlings, around the use of cement pillars or bamboo rods erected into a fence, the middle and then pulling wire, etc., outside the cover nylon window screen mesh can be. Feathered or collected adults in which to mate and lay eggs, and later you can leave the adult population as needed, without having to collect seed sources from the wild.
The sixth ring: good epidemic prevention. After the emergence of the wakame (robin's tongue) as well as the feathered adult natural enemies are more, such as toads, snakes, rodents, hedgehogs, wildcats, sparrows and praying mantis, etc. are fond of wakame, white fungus, green fungus and insect-borne algae bacteria and other microorganisms are also parasitic and harmful. In addition, flooding and pollution such as pesticides and fertilizers are also harmful to wakame or cicadas, which should be paid attention to and protected when breeding. The most important seasons are the egg stage on the tree, the occurrence of "cicada ants", and the emergence of the old mature cicada. The natural enemies of the tree egg stage and cicada ant stage are mainly ants and small red flower bugs, and the treatment measures are to use strong ammonia essence 100 times solution to wash the branches with eggs or DDVP, strong chlorine essence, etc. for soil treatment.
Harvesting and processing utilization of golden cicadas:
Beginning around the summer solstice to the beginning of August every year is the best season for harvesting in the field, which is most concentrated in the weather in early July or after rain. Wakame (robin's turtle) in the wet and soft underground with a serrated pair of forelegs digging out of the hole, crawling out of the ground that is on the ground for a short period of time, and then Fan edge of the trunk or scaffolding to prepare for moulting, the next day at 4 to 6 a.m. Feathered adult cicadas, you can use a flashlight to light the ground under the tree and the trunk of the tree at night to forage for catching, or in the early morning in the tree to catch the feathered young adult cicadas. Harvesting of artificially reared wakame should be based on the market price during the harvest ripening season and timely digging from the ground or letting them free to come out of the ground to catch. During the production season, the freshly harvested wakame should be washed with water to remove the mud and sand, and one box of 50 grams should be filled with water to submerge the wakame inside the box and kept in the refrigerator for freezing. After re-washing, they can be processed and utilized. Wakame storage methods, there are long-term storage such as freezing or pickling, there are short-term storage such as flooding with water, dilute salt water soaking or natural storage after the soil. When consumed, the pot can be heated into the appropriate amount of peanut oil, until the oil boiled into the pot, the worms into the pot, frying with the fire, into the plate, sprinkled on top of a little fine iodized salt eaten hot, the taste is particularly fresh and tender. Cicadas are processed and cooked in the same way as wakame after the wings are removed.
Golden cicada farming should be treated as an industry to develop Golden cicadas, also known as crawling grasshopper, known as the reputation of the monk meat. Because of the high nutritional value of the cicada and the unique style of good taste, and the human body to play a variety of nourishing medicinal function, the folk have long been eating the cicada can be compared to let a person live forever "monk meat". In recent years, with the improvement of people's living standard, the golden cicada has become a delicacy on the table of hotels and restaurants. Golden cicada origin is mainly concentrated in Henan, Shandong area. In our city urban and rural areas, the golden cicada has also been popular with the public. But compared with previous years, the golden cicada is doubled in price, diners talk about "cicada" color change.
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Small boss nicknamed "climbing grasshopper monkey"
In the village of Yang Houti in the township of Yucheng County, the owner of the coal briquette factory, Yang Chengren, has an intriguing nickname "climbing grasshopper monkey". Because when he was a child, Yang Chengren liked to "touch" the grasshopper, every time than his buddies "touch" more. In the evening, he and his pals laughed and joked along the way, and "took down" each golden cicada that was climbing the tree, and lifted up the small bamboo pole to sweep down each adult golden cicada, which was very enjoyable. At that time, because the family is poor, can not eat meat, cicada but let Yang Chengren mouth full of happiness. "After the rain, the golden cicadas are the most abundant." Yang Chengren recalled that when he was a child, one night after the rain, he and his father with the window screen from the village head of the small gully to fish gold cicadas, the whole fish two buckets, the next day to the city, sold more than 20 yuan. His father was so happy that he took him to "touch" the golden cicadas again the next night, and his family earned more than 300 yuan just by selling the golden cicadas in the summer of this year. Seeing buckets of gold cicadas were brought to the city by his father, Yang Chengren salivation drops, he took advantage of his father's not prepared, stole a few handfuls, ran to the back of the village with a fire to eat, but this was later known to his father, his father beat him severely. At that time, Yang Chengren feel aggrieved, he "touched" the golden cicada, why sell to the city people to eat? Now Yang Chengren when the boss, became a rich man, but he still likes to "touch" the golden cicadas in the summer night, in his words, "buy no own 'touch' delicious.