What is the best thing to feed katydids? What is the difference between katydids and mantises?

Contents of this article

1. What is the best way to feed katydids?

2. What is the difference between a katydid and a mantis?

3. How to induce katydids to chirp

What is good to feed katydids?

Plants such as soybeans, cabbage, rapeseed, carrots, and insects such as locusts, cicadas, and mealworms.

The breeding method is as follows:

1. Choose a dry place that is sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, with no tall buildings or shade around and good lighting.

2. Use thin bamboo poles, bamboo strips, steel bars and other materials to bend into an arch shape to make a skeleton. Cover it with a special breeding net, and then cover it with plastic film and straw mat.

3. After choosing a good site, determine the direction of the shed according to the terrain, and add sand into the shed to a depth of 7 cm.

4. The types of plants include soybeans, cabbage, corn, etc. After the land is prepared, cover it with a shed and then plant it.

5. Cover the shed. The height is generally 1.8 to 2.2 meters. Appropriately increase the space and do a good job of insulation, and take natural disasters into consideration.

What is the difference between a katydid and a mantis?

The difference between katydid and mantis:

1. Different biological properties. The katydid belongs to the family Katydids of the order Orthoptera and can chirp; the mantis, also known as the knife mantis, belongs to the family Mantidae of the subclass Pterygota and cannot chirp.

2. Different appearance. The katydid is green in color, with whip-like antennae longer than the body, oval compound eyes, and nearly membranous and weak front wings with the front edge tilted downward; the mantis is long in shape, with a triangular head and free movement, large and bright compound eyes, slender antennae, a neck that can rotate freely, and sharp spines on the femur and tibia of the front legs, with the tibia being sickle-shaped. The front wings are leathery, the hind wings are membranous, and the abdomen is enlarged.

3. Different ways of laying eggs. The female katydid lays eggs in batches from the ovipositor in the soil; the mantis lays eggs in the egg sheath, which is made of hardened foamy secretions and is mostly attached to branches, bark and other objects.

4. Mantis is the natural enemy of katydid.

How to lure katydids to chirp

Many people like to induce insects to sing, and there is an effective method to induce insects to sing. Generally speaking, adjusting the light and temperature can induce insects to sing. Because different insects have different requirements for light and temperature. For example, bellflowers and cicadas are used to singing at night; cicadas are used to singing during the day; golden bells sing day and night. Therefore, the breeder can induce insects to sing by properly adjusting the light or temperature.

Of course, besides chirping by themselves, insects can also be induced to chirp through sound, female insects, and adjusting temperature and light. Female katydids do not chirp, only male katydids can make chirping sounds by vibrating their wings. In life, insect keepers can also use a tape recorder to record the chirping of katydids, and then play it to katydids that do not chirp, in order to induce them to chirp.