Silkmoths: Mating and egg images

[Provancha65]

Here are a few of the images of our silkmoth project that I am compiling for research and data purposes in order to better improve the methods used for cultivation. Apologies for the gross fingernails , literally cut them right after the photos were taken.

 

[chefboyardee]

looks good, how many eggs did you end up with? Manage to take any pics of your actual setup?

and if you think those nails are gross you should see mine after spending an afternoon working on the bike

 

[Provancha65]

Ha, I just meant their actual length was starting to get out of control, they were even more foul after cleaning out the dubia/crickets bins and re-potting the plants in the enclosures. Right now I have the eggs sealed inside of ziplock bags, containing a folded, moist paper towel that isn't making contact with the eggs. The ziplock bags are in an incubator set to 78 degrees, we are going to remove them from the bags as soon as they begin to emerge and place them inside of small, seal-able tupperware containing mulberry leaves, which we plan to feed them until the end of their second instar, at which point we are going to transition them to an artificial diet, depending on the availability of actual mulberry leaves. Send a pm my way if you have any additional advice since you were the original supplier .

 

[Kate]

I'm not sure you can swap them from fresh mulbery leaves to artificial chow.

 

[Kate]

This is the next stage! Lots of bad boys.