"Spring with birds, summer with thunder, autumn with insects, winter with wind." Autumn is coming, the weather is getting cooler, the insects are beginning to sing, the insect friends are rubbing their hands, this autumn, your favorite songbird is barking? Let's talk to Old Jiang about fun and good song bugs. Today's sharing with you is the relevant knowledge of the textile bride, telling you how to raise and so on.
How are weavers raised?
To raise a textile lady, you should first prepare a container, which can be made of bamboo strips, bamboo grates, wheat straw, plastic yarn, nylon yarn, etc.
Among these cages, the sarong cage and the bamboo cage with the bottom plate are the best, and the bird cage made of bamboo grate is the worst, because there is a gap in the bottom, the insect foot is easy to step on, it is not easy to stand, and the more aging insects in late autumn are very easy to break long legs.
Due to the large size of the weaver lady, the cage should be as wide as possible to make it easier to move inside the cage.
It is also kept in a square tin box of biscuits or a canned bottle with a cylinder erect, so as not to make its chirping too loud and noisy. Using this cage has its advantages: the songbirds have a metallic echo inside the tin box; the songbirds chirp inside the cylindrical jars, which can make a "buzzing" sound and sound very charming.
The best food for feeding the textile lady is pumpkin flower and loofah flower, and other foods such as watermelon peel, pumpkin, vegetable leaves, fruits and rice grains can also be fed. The feed varieties fed should be changed frequently to make the nutrients obtained more comprehensive.
A few points worth noting are:
First, the cage should often be hung in a cool and ventilated place, especially pay attention to avoid direct sunlight, otherwise it is easy to dry and dehydrate and die.
Second, the cage cannot be near places where there are chemicals or coal soot.
Third, the cage should be suspended to prevent cats, rats or other small animals from feeding.
Fourth, when the temperature drop in late autumn is large, it is necessary to take warm measures as soon as possible in order to extend the time of play, which can generally be raised until the Spring Festival.
What kind of life habits do textile girls have?
Textile girls are widely distributed in China, with the southeastern coastal provinces such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi being the most distributed.
The textile lady is a plant-eating insect, likes to eat pumpkin, loofah petals, because it also eats mulberry leaves, persimmon leaves, walnut leaves, poplar leaves, etc., has a certain degree of harm, so it belongs to the list of pests.
This insect quietly lies between the stems and leaves of the melon vine during the day, feeding and chirping at night. The female lays eggs on the young shoots of the plant, often causing the new shoots to die, and it occurs once a year in one generation to overwinter with the eggs.
Textile girls do not like strong light and prefer to perch in cool and dark environments. Weavers understand that it has this habit, so breeders in jiangnan often use small cages woven with wheat straw as feeding containers, which have the property of avoiding light and shading. However, the use of such a container also has a flaw, that is, you can only hear its chirping, but you cannot see its form. Therefore, it is raised in a cage made of bamboo strips with a base plate, so that its chirping can be heard and its form can be seen. However, it is necessary to make a cover with cloth and cover the cage during the day to avoid direct sunlight.
The weaver girl is good at jumping, and can jump very far, sometimes jumping among the melon vines, falling into the grass, that is, there is no trace.
This insect is also not adapted to excessively hot environments, so some breeders sprinkle some cool water on the cage in the hot weather, and hang the cage in the ventilation place at night.
(Source: Jiang Qinghai, September 2002, "Fashion Small Pet Appreciation Encyclopedia" • Nanjing: Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House)
Do you have doubts about flowers, birds, fish and insects? Welcome to leave a message and discuss together. If you have high opinions, you are also waiting to exchange and share. Today's headline search "old Jiang Qiu", pay attention to me, let's feel more wonderful and fun in the colorful nature together.