The ground soft-shelled turtle (dì?biē) is the female adult of an insect of the order Blattidae, the soft-shelled cockroach family. Incomplete metamorphosis. Alias? earth turtle. Also known as (地鳖)

转屎虫、通称地鳖虫、土鳖虫、土元。 There are three kinds of medicinal ground beetles: the Chinese ground beetle (Chinese medicine name Su Tuyuan), and the Ji ground beetle. Windworm (traditional Chinese medicine name Da Tuyuan), Oriental back piece cockroach (traditional Chinese medicine name Jinbian Da Tuyuan). In the past, they were only collected by hand and could not meet the demand, but now they have been successfully bred artificially and can be used for artificial insemination. It has the effects of breaking blood stasis, renewing tendons and bones. It is used for amenorrhea, infertility, postpartum stagnation and obstruction in the abdomen. It can also be used for fracture injury, stagnation pain, lumbar sprain and other conditions.

Ecological Habits

The ground soft-shelled turtle is an important medicinal insect

Living in dark, moist, humus-rich loose soil, it is afraid of sunlight, lurking in the daytime and active at night, with an optimal growth temperature of 28-30℃. Below 0℃ or higher than 38℃ will cause the death of a large number of adults and wakozoa, and when it drops to 8℃, it will stop its activity and enter the dormant period. To complete a generation, the ground turtle needs to go through three stages: egg, waking worm and adult. It takes about 8 months for the males to grow wings from waking to maturity, while the females are wingless and take about 9 to 11 months to mature. Males die 5 to 7 days after copulation. Females can lay eggs one week after crossing their tails, and once crossed their tails, they will lay eggs for the rest of their lives. The ground turtle is an omnivorous insect, and it prefers fresh food, bran and rice bran, followed by cornmeal, crushed grains, peanut cake, soybean meal, fish, meat and various kinds of grass, vegetable leaves, melon and fruit peels, chicken and cow dung and other coarse materials. Such as grass and other feed single feeding slow growth, full-price material available 72% wheat bran, cornmeal 20%, 5% soybean cake, animal feed 3% (cooked feed). Feed with boiling water, add another 30%-40% green vegetables or fruits and vegetables. Feeding with full-value feed for 5-6 months, individuals can grow into adults.