These have got to be the most unusual silk moths I’ve ever had. Yesterday, something flew across the room and when I checked, it was a silk moth. I’ve been under the belief that they’ve lost the ability to truly fly. There are a few cocoons which have been massive and those have secreted their stuff, but weren’t able to escape their cocoons (not very unusual) so I helped and there were two moths in the same cocoon! Not just once, but so far three of them! One of the cocoons looked like the escape juice was secreted at each end. Only one of the moths was alive (a male)and inside next to the dead one, was a pile of eggs! If they are fertile, it’ll be extra crazy. Lastly so far, at least a couple of them have markings on their wings. I’ve never seen anything but the solid cream color.
They were a little unusual when they were silkworms too. Usually, a good number tends to die off for unknown reasons. These were extra hardy and probably from egg to cocoon, only about 20 died. So far I’ll be getting lots of eggs from them and I’ll see if the off spring is just as hardy.
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Instead, I’ll try to be kind. Most of what I learned is from 
Aren’t they just darling? Don’t they make you happy inside? Yes, you want to feed them tiny amounts of chow. I pick off tiny amounts with a toothpick to give them. It dries out super fast, so you’ll have to keep adding more at least daily. If you happen to have a decent sized syringe just laying around (doesn’t everyone?! 
) you can force some chow into it and then squeeze tiny amounts out for them.
