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In the next 15 days I will have some surplus black silkworm cocoons available for $2.50 each (minimum order 10) +$7 shipping/heat pack. Moths will emerge, mate after about 5 minutes, lays eggs, mate again, lay more eggs and occasionally mate a 3rd time spanning a 3 to 6 day period, average egg...

The female trees have a lot less leaf and I the berries stain badly. It doesn't take much to get them to maybe 1.5 inches, but that's where your troubles begin, the eat like fiends and eat a ton. I once raised 600 on leaf alone and for the last 2\3rd of thier life I haf to gather roughly 2 paper...

I keep my silkworms at room temp and have awesome results compared to when I did the whole keep them at 80 degrees thing. I keep them covered when they're tiny otherwise the food dries out too fast. I would highly recommend leaves. I raise about 300 per month to cocoons and leaves can be a chore...

Awesome shot!

LOL one chameleon!

I was wondering if anyone can tell me if I can ship ready hatch eggs without a heat or cold pack right now. Been meaning to send some out for a while now but I can't find any info and dont want to kill them, I'm in WI so I figure they won't need cold b/c it's cold enough but I'm wondering about...

Yeah silkworms are one of the few foods they can eat as a staple. I'm thinking it may be good to give them roaches and crickets every now and again.

Just feed them. They need a place to cocoon, I usually use toilet paper rolls and bend them so there is a tighter space that won't require as much silk/energy exersion. They eat a lot, I've got hundreds right now that should've cocoond already and keep eating and eating. I usually spray water on...

This species eats many species of plant that contain mustard oil, which isn't so much toxic as it is foul tasting, and birds avoid this species even if they are on plants not containing the oil. Coloring isn't really a reliable indicator of toxic species as there are just as many non toxic...

I did research and these are the same ones I bred, so I'm confident I can do it I'll pm you a bit later.

Any chance you could let a few of these pupate and sell them to me to give them a go at breeding? I I usually breed sphinx moth species but I'm pretty confident I can breed these they look very similar to some of the white butterflies I bred years ago that were on cabbage, I have a hydroponic...

Stunted wings are because you didn't give them a proper perch to pump them, if the soil was too dry theyd get stuck and die in the pupae shell. You either need to have sticks that are firmly proper up or keep them in a screen cage.

Silkworms are easy and they don't stink or run away from thier food.

I'm in WI and even though it's snowed and been in the 30's for some time now dandelions are still alive if you know how to identify them, sweet potatos work, eggplant, any type of pepper (even ghost chilis!), tomatos, green tomatos if possible, mulberry leaves and silkworms chow both work but...

The whole thing about them bieng poisonous is extremely exaggerated. Some of the most knowledgeable cham people on this site feed thier chams the ones they find on tomatoes(when they find them, they don't use them as a staple), wild reptiles eat them, birds, which eat them as often as possible...