So here is my little adventure of raising and growing silkworms.
My first wormies
I went to Taiwan for a year for my moms sabbatical. I had a friend that got 100 silkie eggs for his science project. 99 hatched. He gave me 6 (so generous) to keep as pets. Yes silkies are pets in Taiwan. Here they are when they first arrived in their beautiful candy box
So beautiful eh?
They grew up into big big wormies
Aww they r spinning
Next I had a science project in 6th grade. I ordered 500 eggs, 29 hatched. (wow i suck at hatching)
No baby pics sorry
And then they cocooned
Mothys and eggys
None survived
Im ready to start up the silkie cycle again! This time for burt and joyce, i'll be ordering today or tomorrow. 500 eggs again, if 100 hatch 10 will be kept for cocooning. Thanks for reading, i'll post up when i order/recieve the eggs and silkies!
Well today around 40 hatched in the morning. and around 20 hatched this afternoon. Just went to six flags (amusement park) with a friend and came back to see them crawling around the petri dish. I am estimating around 60 hatched today. This is better then the 29 that hatched last time.