The earthworm and the earthworm are the same insect, they just have different names. The scientific name of the earth element is the earth turtle, and it is also known as the soaking insect, the earth turtle insect, the earth turtle, the street turtle, the ground turtle, the joint insect, the bed bug mother, the feces-turning insect, the soil fertilization element, etc. Tu Yuan is the name of Tu Yuan in traditional Chinese medicine. Its body is flat and brown-black in color. The male has wings and the female has no wings. The front end is narrow and the rear end is wider. The front and back plates are more developed and can cover the head. There are 3 pairs of legs with tiny hairs and spines.

1. Introduction to Tu Yuan (Soil Beetle Insect)

1. The scientific name of Tu Yuan (Soil Beetle Insect) is Di Biechu, and its other aliases include pickling bug, ground beetle bug, earth beetle, Street bugs, ground turtles, joint bugs, mother bed bugs, feces-turning bugs, soil-fertilizing elements, etc. Tuyuan is the name of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is a Chinese medicinal material that is in short supply in the market. After the female insects of Tu Yuan are scalded to death with boiling water, the impurities are removed and dried before they can be used as medicine.

2. To complete one generation of Tu Yuan, it needs to go through three stages: egg, nymph and adult. It takes about 8 months for male insects to grow wings from nymphs, while female insects are wingless and take about 9-11 months to mature. Males die 5-7 days after mating, and females can lay eggs one week after mating, and will lay eggs for the rest of their lives after mating.

2. Morphological characteristics of Tuyuan (soil beetle)

1. Tuyuan is a female adult with incomplete metamorphosis, and the male worm 5-7 years after mating Heaven is death. The body is flat, flat and oval, brown and black, 1.3-3cm long and 1.2-2.4cm wide. Males are winged and females are wingless. The forewings are leathery and the hind wings are translucent and folded on the back. They are capable of short-distance flight and can fly up to 5-6m from top to bottom. They have a pair of tail whiskers.

2. The front end of the female adult is narrower, the rear end is wider, the back is purple-brown, shiny, and wingless. The pronotum is well developed and covers the head. The ventral and dorsal plates have 9 segments, arranged in an imbricate shape. The ventral surface is reddish brown, the head is small and hidden in the chest, and there is a pair of filamentous antennae that often fall off. There are 3 pairs of legs on the chest, with fine hairs and spines. There are transverse links in the abdomen.

3. After the male and female mate, they can lay egg masses, which are shaped like rice grains, 1-1.5 times larger than rice grains, about 1cm long, brown-red in color, and have vertical stripes on the surface of the egg masses. There is one larvae in each longitudinal stripe, arranged in double rows, and there are 8-16 larvae in one egg mass.