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Can you take pictures of death ones and share with us. How big the silkworms are? I think about poisonous leaves. Here are the symptoms Right after eating, the worm painfully spins around themselves (look like crocodile death roll) Spout out water. They try to eliminate the poison. Die...

Gold cocoons originally are from tropical zone silkworm called multi life cycles silkworm. It means the eggs not fall in hibernation in winter therefore, there a multiple life cycle in a years. Nowaday, it is hard to find pure clean breed, so the features that I mention above is not guarantee.

They send out at the end of this month http://www.naturehills.com/product/white_mulberry.aspx You can buy from Armstrong Garden. Should call them for availability first. You can oder from them with 49.99. Did you know that you can cut of young branches(about 10 inches) and plan to ground...

Well it depends on the purpose of raising silkworms. First of all, if you room is contaminated and if it can not only transfer bacteria to you dehydrated leaves, then it also can transfer the bacteria to fresh leave when you feed your silkworms. Moreover, mulberry powder has chance to be...

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Actually, you just dehydrate mulberry leaves and grind it to fine powder. Here are some key to do it. Do not dehydrate the leaves above 55 Celsius degree (about 140 F degrees). If you do it yourself, pick young leaves to make powder for instar 1, 2 and older leaves for older larvae. How to...

I think the most exspensive to raise silkworms is silkworm chow. Why don't we plan 1 or 2 white mulberry bushes. You can either plan them in a big pot. Just rember to cut of the branches when they grow so hight. Keep them in bushes not trees. Here is the best place to buy white mulberry tree...

Have you ever seen mulberry trees? If you know them but you don't know where they, then I cannot help because I am not living in Ventura areas. If you don't know how the trees look like I can post pictures. I am pretty sure that there are many mulberry trees in Ventura. They are tall trees.

Spray water on them and wait about 4-5 minutes, you can scratch them off. Let us know if they change color.

How to pick mulberry leaves, How to us syringe to squeeze silk worm chow I just created an article to share with you guys how I use syringe to squeeze out silkworm chow. I also show you how I pick mulberry leaves. Note: Pick right leaves to feed silkworms is very import if you raise silkworms...

When your moths out and couple for 3-4 hours, saparate the males from females and put the females on clean piece of paper inside an upside down bow. If you know how to check the moth's body fluid under microscope to rule out the eggs that are from unhealth mothers, then you need to put a single...

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Do you need mulberry leaves? After becoming a member of this community, somes asking me about mulberry leaves. In my area, there are many mulberry trees. It is hard for me to send the leaves individually like that unless I have multiple requests at the same time. I would like to do a pocket...

The best way to feed silkies by chow is using medical syringe to squeeze the chow out. Use small ones for small silkies. Squeeze the chow into grids ( about 1/2 square rid for small silkies) by squeezing horizontally and then vertically. When you mix chow powder with water to cook you, can add...

It takes 10 to 14 days to become moths. I knew that human eats pupa, birds eat pupa so I think there is no problem with reptile I have kept cocoons in fridge up to 15 days they are still OK. But I do not know the max limitation. You can test buy cutting out 2 pupa per day to find out the...

How to prevent disease from grasserie virus If you are raising silkworms as feeder, you should lower temp and humidity that they recommend to raisers who raise silkworms for silks. This will help to prevent some diseases especially, from grasserie viruses When silkworms are raise in 3-5 F...

How to know when silkworms start spinning In the 5th instar after 7 day olds (Depend on temp and food); silkworms start to spin their cocoons. How to know when they start spinning Stop eating. Entire body become shiny and kind of clear Move to the edge of the tray (or container) and...