Breadworms like to eat bread, steamed buns, cereals, rice bran, wheat rind, chick feed, bean feed, watermelon rind, papaya, red roe, vegetable leaves and other foods.

Family cultivation of breadworms, can be used in the basin, wooden boxes, cardboard boxes, tile pots and other containers on the balcony or under the bed breeding. If the surface of the container is too rough, it can be used by pasting laminated waxed paper on the inner wall.

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Breadworms, also known as yellow mealworms, belong to the order Coleoptera, family Pediculidae, and the powdered beetles, in the classification of insects. It is native to North America and was introduced to China from the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

Management of ageing stage:

I. In order to create high economic benefits, the management method of larvae is:

1. When the naked eye can see the body shape of the larvae, it is necessary to increase the temperature and humidity, and to promote its growth and development. Warming can be taken to increase the density method. Humidification is regular (6-8 times a day) to the rearing box sprinkling water. However, the amount should be small and no bright water should appear. Increasing the water in the feed can also increase the humidity.

2. Feed the larvae nutrient-rich I, III and V feeds and give plenty of green fodder.

3. It is best to keep small and large larvae separately to avoid cannibalism. (4) The appropriate temperature for this period is 25 a 32 ℃, humidity 60%-75%, bran humidity 10%-15%.

There are differences between individual larvae, which are manifested in the sequence of pupation time and the strength of individual ability. Just turned into a pupa and larvae mixed in a wooden tray living pupa is easy to be bitten by the larvae in the thorax, abdomen, eat the internal organs and become empty shell; some pupae in the pupal process by viral infections, pupae become dead pupae, which need to be frequently inspected, and found that this situation can be used in 0.310-6 bleach solution spray space, in order to disinfect and sterilize. At the same time, the dead pupae will be picked out and disposed of in time. When picking out the pupae, the pupae that will be transformed within 2 days will be placed in the same sieve tray containing feed, insisting on synchronous reproduction and centralized feathering as adults.

Use a wooden box with a length of 60 centimeters, a width of 40 centimeters and a height of 13 centimeters, put in a mixture of feed that is 3 to 5 times the weight of the insects, and put the larvae into it. Then cover it with various vegetable leaves to maintain a suitable temperature. After the feed is basically eaten up, sieve out the feces and add new material. If seed retention is required, reduce the density of larvae, usually no more than 250 grams in a box. The pupae of the first few batches of larvae should be picked out in time so as not to be harmed, and the pupae do not have to be picked in the later stages.

Second, the pupal stage: the larval rearing box sprinkled with wheat bran, covered with an appropriate amount of vegetable leaves, the pupa will be put into the feathering.

Three, adult stage: adults need to be set into the wire mesh, the holes in the mesh to adult insects can not drill into the degree of the four sides of the box with non-slip material to prevent escape. Wire mesh under the pad a piece of paper or board, and then sprinkled into 1 cm of the mixture, covered with vegetable leaves to moisturize, and finally will be hatched into the adult worms, ready to lay eggs. After that, every 7 days, the board or paper under the bottom of the spawning box is pulled out along with the bran and put into the larval box to be hatched.

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