Cicadas eat differently outdoors and indoors. In the wild, they mainly survive by sucking plant sap, while indoors, they can be provided with twigs, leaves, soybeans, corn, and other foods. For domestication, female cicadas are recommended as they do not produce noisy chirping.
Food that cicadas eat
Cicadas mainly feed on the sap of trees and other plants. During their larval stage, cicadas live in the soil and survive by sucking sap from plant roots.
Adult cicadas do the same; they insert their sharp, needle-like mouths into tree trunks, crops, or other plant trunks, sucking sap from time to time to replenish their nutrients and water.
When raising cicadas at home, you can provide them with food such as twigs, leaves, soybeans, corn, and even morning dew. If you want to raise cicadas at home, it is recommended to raise females, as female cicadas do not produce a sharp chirping sound.
