silkworm babies

[Countryside Chams]

for those of you that raise silkies from egg, how in the world do you get them from the petri dish to the keeper? i am moving them as the instructions say, but they are so small, i ended up just putting the petri dish in the keeper and hoping the rest of them will find their way. thanks everyone.

 

[Brian]

That's what I did... I just put the whole petri dish in there. I noticed a lot of them have already found ther way out...just put food in keeper and stop putting food in the petri dish.

 

[Pams Chams]

Yes just put the dish in a larger container, you can kill them to easy otherwise. when they are in the larger container just feed around the dish and they will fallow the food

 

[dodolah]

you can use #2 water color brush to avoid killing the "kego."

 

[chamlover]

That's what i do too. My little paintbrush pickeruppper.


Debby

 

[lonomac]

I actually keep them in the dish for about 2 weeks because of this, shredding the food over them. Then I move them