Silkworm woes.

[ridgebax1]

So I have been able to successfully allow silks to grow and cocoon but the vast majority of moths that hatch are males, dozens of males to maybe one or two girls! Also when I do get a girl, I move them to a honeymoon suite to allow them privacy, after a day I move her to a separate container to allow her to lay eggs. I get eggs, they change from yellow to gray and they're done. I cannot get them to hatch to save my life! I have them in a plastic container as I don't have a petri dish and I keep them with my other bugs and put them under the CHE for the roaches. Even the eggs I ordered from coastal did not hatch. What am I doing wrong?? I know they take a few weeks to hatch but I am talking 6-8 weeks now.

 

[reptoman]

For hatching eggs I put as many as I want to hatch out on a butter tub lid or some other plastic dish inside of a sterilite shoe box with a wet paper towel underneath. That means the eggs stay dry but the paper towel is good and wet. I keep the shoe box covered with a small gap for air and keep it on top of one of the chameleon cages where it gets to the 80s every day and it takes 7 days for them to hatch every time. If yours have not hatched in that amount of time, I suspect either old eggs that are not viable or you are keeping them too dry or too cold.

 

[pigglett79]

Eggs like warm and humid. If you get the conditions correct they hatch pretty fast. I have however has some take up to 3 months to hatch in the past when I didnt have conditions correct.