The invention discloses a large-scale tea lesser
leafhopper cultivation and preservation method suitable for cicada tea production. The method comprises the following steps: step 1, preferably selecting Jinxuan, jade or Fuding white tea as a host
plant variety, and determining the specification of the host
plant; step 2, establishing a tea lesser
leafhopper adult maintenance area, a
nymph maintenance area and an
egg incubation area, performing partition maintenance, and preferably selecting
optimal maintenance conditions and culture density of different maintenance areas; step 3, preferably selecting a collection mode of tea lesser
leafhopper eggs: preferably selecting an
adult male-female ratio, and preferably selecting
egg laying population density, egg collection duration and the like; 4, a tea lesser leafhopper egg storage chamber is established, and storage conditions are optimized; and step 5, preferably selecting incubation conditions and incubation time of the tea lesser leafhopper eggs after low-temperature storage. According to the large-scale production method, the tea branches to be trimmed in the
tea garden are utilized, and the cost is low. The tea branches are used for culture, and the death rate caused by the fact that the leafhoppers need to adapt to
host plants again during release is reduced.