Breeding Silkworms?

[MsCham]

Okay, so there's lots on google about breeding silkworms, and hornworms, and all that. But as I live in an apartment, I'm looking to see what crazy tricks you guys might have come up with for keeping them as moths while they are laying eggs. I can't exactly keep them in a tuberware container like the worms. And I'm a little bit nervous about opening whatever entrapment to collect the eggs, and having one of them escape... I don't have a net to recatch them! Since no one sells silkworms where I live I have to order them online, which will get pricey over an extended time period. I'm comfortable with the rest of the process... but the moths. What do you do with them??

 

[kplatvoet]

Silk worms moths don't fly around like hornworms so they wouldn't be a problem in a apartment - I bought eggs all last summer which were a lot cheaper especially since I sent my husband out to find mulberry leaves for silks -

 

[MsCham]

Wait... Just to clarify... The Silk Moths dont fly??

 

[APailthorp]

Nope, they don't. Years of domestication. Covered here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyx_mori

Here's the link others have referenced here before about breeding silkworms as feeders:
http://feederinsectbreeding.blogspot.com/p/silk-worm-care-and-breeding.html

 

[MsCham]

That makes me so amazingly happy!! Thank you guys!!

 

[SirCal]

Yes silkmoths do not fly and im in the process of trying to breed some my self you can check out my progress on the silkworm 101 thread https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/silkworms-101.7906/ How are yours going?