Ground beetle (ground beetle ) Alias: ground beetle, earth turtle, over the street, ground turtle, knapweed, stink bug mother, earth yuan. It is an insect with a flat, brownish-black body, the male has wings and the female is wingless. Often found within the soil at the base of residential walls. Can be used as medicine. Also called stinging insects (zhèchóng), commonly known as earth turtle. It is the dried female body of the cockroach insect Eupolyphagasinensis Walker or Steleophaga plancyi. After catching, it is scalded to death in boiling water and dried in the sun or dried.

The dì biē is a female adult insect of the family Blattidae. It is an incomplete metamorphosis. Alias

The earthworm, commonly known as the ground beetle, earthworm, earth yuan. It is flat and ovate, 1.3-3cm long, 1.2-2.4cm wide, narrower at the front end, wider at the back end, purple-brown dorsal surface, glossy, and wingless. The prothoracic dorsal plate is more developed and covers the head; the ventral dorsal plate has 9 segments and is arranged in an imbricate shape. Ventral surface reddish brown, head smaller, with 1 pair of filiform antennae, often deciduous, thorax with 3 pairs of feet, with fine hairs and spines. Abdomen with transverse segments. The texture is crunchy and fragile. Fishy odor, slightly salty taste.

The ground turtle is an important medicinal insect, living in dark, moist, humus-rich loose soil, afraid of sunlight, lurking during the day and active at night, the optimal temperature of growth 28-30 ℃, below 0 ℃ or higher than 38 ℃ will cause a large number of deaths of adults and worms, down to

8 ℃ to stop the activity, enter the dormant period.

The ground beetle needs to go through three stages of egg, waking and adult to complete a generation. It takes about 8 months for the males to grow wings from waking to maturity, while 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 to lay eggs for the rest of their lives. Bait trapping: In the large mouth tile cans or other light-walled containers, put people fried with fragrant rice bran bran or bean cake crumbs as bait, bury the cans in the place where the ground beetles often appear, the mouth of the cans should be leveled with the ground, and a few straws or wheat straws can be put on top of the cans, so that the ground beetles will come out in the evening to feed and can't climb out of the cans after smelling the fragrance, and then the cans will be taken out to capture the bugs.

The ground soft-shelled turtle is an omnivorous insect, and it likes to eat fresh food, bran and rice bran, followed by cornmeal, crushed grains, peanut cake, soybean meal, miscellaneous fish, meat, and all kinds of grass, vegetable leaves, melon and fruit peels, chickens, 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-price feed for 5-6 months, individuals can grow into adults.