Life habits of centipede

1, like to live in groups: centipedes have the habit of living in groups, and centipedes in the same group can live in harmony and rarely fight and kill. If the habitat is too small and there are too many centipedes, the old centipede will automatically walk away and find another habitat.

2. The centipede is timid and afraid of being frightened. If it is slightly frightened, it will stop eating, escape from the nest, or curl up. The female centipede that is laying eggs will stop laying eggs immediately, while the centipede that hatches eggs will eat eggs abnormally after being frightened.

3, like dark and humid. Most wild centipedes inhabit hillsides, fields, roadsides, overgrown places, or between woodpiles and tiles, and often inhabit dark corners, such as the corner of the kitchen. Scolope tracks are also common under the tiles around pig houses and chicken houses.

4. Live in the nest during the day and come out at night. The activity peak of centipede is at 8 ~ 12 in the evening. Generally, centipedes go back to their nests to rest before 4 am, and it is difficult to see centipedes after dawn.

During the day, centipedes have poor eyesight, and things a little farther away can't be seen clearly, so it is difficult to feed and defend the enemy. It only relies on a pair of slender tentacles stretching forward to find its way, and it also relies on tentacles to search for prey and food at night.

5. Have the habit of licking

Scolopes often licks his tentacles and feet with 1 dense villi on the maxilla and basal ganglia, brush bristles on the back of the second maxilla, and saliva in his mouth, and also licks his nest cleanly.

6. Temperature centipede is a kind of temperature-changing animal, and all its activities are often related to temperature. The optimum temperature for the growth and development of centipede is 25℃ ~ 32℃. When the temperature is 1 1℃ ~ 15℃, the centipede stops mating and spawning. When the temperature drops below 10℃, the centipede stops all activities, drills into loose soil (or nest soil) and curls up to hibernate, but when the temperature rises to 33℃ ~ 35℃, all its activities are suspended due to the loss of water in the body. If the temperature rises above 36℃, the body loses too much water, which makes the body dry and die.

7. Humidity; When the relative humidity of air is 60% ~ 70% and the humidity of nest soil is 10% ~ 20%, the life activities of centipede are the most active, which means that this is the most suitable humidity for the growth and development of centipede.

The natural enemies of centipede are mice, skinks, toads, ants, chickens and birds. Scolopes hatch and molt slowly, and are easily used by ants. They can be killed and eaten in a few hours, so it is necessary to prevent ants in advance.

So it is most important to keep dry, and other things like realgar can also drive away centipedes.