kingofnobbys":9e17j7id said:They are pretty random....I let them do their own thing and then worry about extracting the cocoon a couple of days after the cocoon started getting builtup.
Some of my current batch - fed fresh and blanched mulberry leaves (mostly blanched) are starting to pupate now too.
emberNchester":1l9mlx23 said:kingofnobbys":1l9mlx23 said:They are pretty random....I let them do their own thing and then worry about extracting the cocoon a couple of days after the cocoon started getting builtup.
Some of my current batch - fed fresh and blanched mulberry leaves (mostly blanched) are starting to pupate now too.
Oh ok. I was worried that if they didn't wanna cocoon in the rolls that they'd just be like "screw it" and die.
I didn't realize how many mulberry trees were in our neighborhood until we started getting silkworms. One of our neonate even cut branches off his tree for us. We have 3 gallon bags of blanched leaves in the freezer. Gonna go back one more time before the leaves fall off to grab enough to make it through winter hopefully.
kingofnobbys":3hgtxcb7 said:emberNchester":3hgtxcb7 said:kingofnobbys":3hgtxcb7 said:They are pretty random....I let them do their own thing and then worry about extracting the cocoon a couple of days after the cocoon started getting builtup.
Some of my current batch - fed fresh and blanched mulberry leaves (mostly blanched) are starting to pupate now too.
Oh ok. I was worried that if they didn't wanna cocoon in the rolls that they'd just be like "screw it" and die.
I didn't realize how many mulberry trees were in our neighborhood until we started getting silkworms. One of our neonate even cut branches off his tree for us. We have 3 gallon bags of blanched leaves in the freezer. Gonna go back one more time before the leaves fall off to grab enough to make it through winter hopefully.
I blanched my leaves back in March and apart from a little "frost" in some spots when I get them out and separate the leaves they look good as when I froze them. Glad someone tried the blanching technique - did you do it based on my thread ?
.... I don't think I'll be popular with silkworm chow sellers over there if blanching mulberry leaves catches on .....
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