The egg in your last picture doesn't look good, either. I wouldn't "keep them cool", they need at least room temperature to hatch. I don't think they're going to hatch seeing as how there's not even one baby after over a month. I'm sorry 😢
Hi. Often silkworm eggs go into diapause during winter, but sometimes they don't go into diapause at all and just develop and hatch. It's determined by the conditions the female experienced when she was an egg. It is a normal occurrence and when it happened to me the first time, I didn't expect...
Hello everyone. I am hoping that you guys can point me in the right direction of a supplier who ships silkworm chow to Canada. I'm getting fed-up of the unreliability of the local pet shops. Too often they haven't got any in stock. I figured I'd try to get the powder and mix it myself.
I...
The one thing that stands out to me is the mention of the poo being stuck in their butts. When I used mulberry leaves this summer, I had this problem. They would have their poop stuck or had a prolapse (yellow thing) sticking out. After talking to the guy who runs the blog WormSpit, he said it...
Hi bbyodac and congrats on your silkworms! I could suggest that once the silkworms have transferred themselves over to the new food, you could remove the old bits. Just double check that there are not any left of those old pieces first. That's what I do.
@redhorse, Thanks so much! I am happy to have helped in some way. About the diapause, if you get eggs that don't turn dark after three days, they might not go into diapause, thus they will develop and hatch. Those ones don't go in the fridge.
@MissSkittles: Sometimes there are ones that take a...
@redhorse I wanted to show you how the silkworms that hatched from the eggs that you sent me turned out. Look how big that one in the first picture is!
As far as I know, two months is the minimum requirement. @redhorse, I took out about 40 of the ones that you sent me and 38 hatched. I am holding the last two just in case they are late hatchers.
Look how cute 💕
Haha! Yeah I saw that with my second gen group. They became jerks to each other once they reached the fifth instar. It was funny to watch though. I remember one whom headbutted another worm and then whacked him with his rear end. Funny how the following generations didn't behave like this.
This is just my opinion, I don't know for sure but I wouldn't feed them to your cham because it appears to have a lot of hairs and in some larvae such hairs protect them from being eaten by causing irritation. I know this is the case for some, not sure if it holds true for this guy, but that's...
No, it's not grasserie. There aren't any bodily fluids leaking or swelling.
I probably should have mentioned that this silkworm is darker in color because its an early instar. My third instars usually have a lot of dark markings , and the head capsule is black until the fourth instar.
But...