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A lot can happen in 2 days. To my surprise there are a few cocoons in each of my 2 main bins and my breeder colony appears to be starting and have lines down their dorsum! How long do I need to wait before I collect the cocoons and move them into a clean bin for hatching and breeding? Also, what...

I am trying my hand at keeping a silk worm colony going. From everything I read I anticipated a lot of failure and so I started with 500 eggs. Well, I was a little too successful and 1) I waited too long to start feeding them thinking I wouldn't have enough for a breeding colony and 2) my toads...

One week and my silk worm eggs have hatched! They are feeding well on mullberry chow. My plan is to keep them in the incubator until they outgrow it which won't be long and then move them into permanent homes with gutter gard in a cabinet. I have read and I think someone here told me they would...

Hey, Just wanted to see what the best place to buy silk worm eggs from is in regards to cost as well as quality. I was looking at Mullberry farms. For eggs and food and the shipping its close to 60 dollars which I thought is a little steep - 30 bucks for shipping on eggs???

Hi everyone, I am planning to start a silkworm breeding colony. My plan is to have two small sterilite containers for the larvae stage as I grow them and then a third sterilite container for the pupating adults and then breeding moths. I am going to keep all these containers in one larger...