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Silkworm egg storage Silkworm eggs need to remain above freezing. In my fridge, the best place is in the door, which doesn't get quite as cold as the main center portion.

Silkworms have been bred for at least 5,000 years - there's good evidence it may be even longer. The species they were bred *from,* Bombyx mandarina, still thrives in the wild. They're like dogs and wolves - the domesticated version is maintained alive in captivity, but can still breed...

It's a virus. They get bacteria, too, but those make different symptoms. The real clincher for Grasserie (Borrelina virus) is the milky fluid, and under microscopic examination, polyhedra bodies. The infection can be transferred by hand from sick worms, it can be transferred in...

I usually get 3 or 4 in each tube. They will want to crawl toward the top; if you put one in, let it get started (until the cocoon is clearly defined) then you can put in another beneath it. Ideally, you don't want more than 1 inside the individual cocoon, because then they're so thick the...

Howdy! This is Michael, from wormspit.com - I noticed the hits to the site, and popped over here to see what was up. Just a note - if you are having viral grasserie like what I put up on the wormspit page, it can be passed from one generation to the next by infected eggs. Typically the...