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1. How to raise silkworms without mulberry leaves? ? ? ? ?

If you don't have mulberry leaves, you can buy them at the school gates of some schools. There are many vendors selling mulberry leaves at the school gates (especially now that it's the silkworm breeding season).

If it still doesn't work, you can try using mulberry leaf extract to feed the ants.

If there is still no cure, use camphor tree leaves or lettuce leaves, but the leaves cannot be wet, otherwise the silkworms will have diarrhea after eating them, and in severe cases, it may lead to death.

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Start by alternating cabbage and lettuce leaves (feed cabbage leaves one day, lettuce leaves the next) for ten days.

You can also feed it with camphor tree leaves

Use tender green leaves, but they must be domestic, because they can't produce silk.!!!!!

There will be people selling it at the entrance of Jiangtou No. 3 Primary School around 1:30 pm

2. What can be used instead of mulberry leaves to feed silkworms?

Lettuce leaves, mulberry leaves, paper mulberry leaves, elm leaves, duck chives, dandelions and lettuce leaves, etc.

The staple food of silkworms is mulberry leaves, and other leaves can also be used (Quercus, Cuscuta can also be used to raise silkworms). Silkworms have a strong appetite, and they eat mulberry leaves day and night, so they grow very fast. There is an idiom "cannibalism". In addition, silkworms are very afraid of cold, and they may die of cold if the temperature is slightly lower. It is necessary to pay attention to keeping the room temperature warm. Silkworms are also a delicacy for ants, and it is also necessary to pay attention to the threat of ants to the lives of silkworms.

Things to note when raising silkworms:

1. Choose silkworm varieties with strong disease resistance. Special varieties such as those resistant to chlorine and pyogenic tuberculosis have been bred. You can also choose suitable silkworm varieties based on comprehensive analysis of local climate, geographical conditions, common diseases and other actual conditions.

2. Reasonable silkworm breeding layout. Stagger the planting and harvesting seasons of different crops, arrange silkworm breeding layout reasonably, avoid overlapping of silkworm seasons, and ensure the input of manpower and material resources during the silkworm season, which can effectively ensure a good harvest of silkworm breeding.

3. Manage the mulberry garden well and treat insects in time. Improving leaf quality is beneficial to improving the physique of silkworms, reducing the harm of diseases and insects, and reducing the infection of diseased insects in the wild to the silkworms.

4. Carry out feeding and management according to the physiological characteristics of silkworms at different development stages. The appropriate temperature and humidity standards are: 27℃±1℃ for 1-2 years old, with a dry-wet difference of about 1℃; 26℃±1℃ for 3 years old, with a dry-wet difference of about 1.5±1℃; 25-24℃ for adult silkworms, with a dry-wet difference of about 2℃. Use appropriately mature leaves, remove sand frequently, ventilate regularly, sleep when full, feed at the right time, operate briskly, protect the silkworm body, and try to avoid feeding wet or wilted leaves.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Silkworm

Cudrania leaves, elm leaves, fig leaves, Artemisia willow leaves, Tung oil tree leaves, and dandelion leaves can replace mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. In addition, Southwest Agricultural University has developed an artificial feed that can replace mulberry leaves.

This kind of feed contains the main nutrients of mulberry leaves and is made from various raw materials such as bean cake, bean dregs, starch, sugar, cellulose, vitamins, etc. in a certain proportion.

Experiments have shown that the silkworms fed this artificial feed have the same development, growth and silk-spinning process as silkworms fed mulberry leaves. The color of the silk they spit out is whiter than that of silkworms fed mulberry leaves, and the silk production and quality are the same as those of normal silkworms.

Things to note when raising silkworms

1. Do a good job of disinfection before silkworm rearing to reduce the incidence of silkworms

Cleaning and disinfection before silkworm rearing is the most important part of the whole disease prevention and disinfection work, and is also a prerequisite for achieving high cocoon yields. In order to improve the disinfection effect, the disinfection steps should be "sweep, wash, scrape, disinfect, and brush white"; the disinfection process requires six things: the silkworm room should be cleaned, the silkworm tools should be cleaned, the medicine should be accurately prepared, the liquid medicine should be sprayed evenly, the room tools should be completely disinfected, and they should be well kept after disinfection.

2. Do a good job in supplementing and accelerating the hatching process to improve the one-day hatching rate

The quality of supplementary accelerator work is directly related to the hatching rate of one day. The majority of silkworm farmers should pay attention to supplementary accelerator work, mainly to control temperature and humidity and shade work. After the silkworm eggs arrive in the room, they should be spread out in time, and the temperature should be controlled at 78-79 hours, with a humidity difference of 2 hours. In the evening before the ants are harvested, the temperature should be raised to 80-81 hours, with a humidity difference of 1 hour. At the same time, strict shade should be used during supplementary accelerator work to achieve the purpose of uniform hatching.

3. Is mulberry leaves necessary for silkworm breeding? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???

Silkworms can eat a lot of food, in addition to mulberry leaves, there are mulberry leaves, elm leaves, fig leaves, wormwood leaves, dandelion leaves, lettuce leaves, yam leaves, salsify leaves, etc., no less than 20 kinds; but silkworms like to eat mulberry leaves the most, because silkworms have lived on mulberry leaves for the longest time, and from generation to generation, they have gradually formed the characteristic of being most accustomed to eating mulberry leaves, and it has become hereditary. A chemist once analyzed the smell of mulberry leaves. After distilling mulberry leaves at a high temperature of 132-157℃, he obtained an oily substance in a test tube, which looked like ethylene alcohol and ethylene aldehyde. This substance is volatile and smells very much like mint. If you drop it on paper, silkworms 30 cm away can smell it. After the silkworms smell this smell, they crawl over quickly. It can be seen that this is the most familiar signal smell for silkworms. Silkworms rely on their sense of smell and taste to identify the smell of mulberry leaves. If these organs are damaged, they will not be able to identify the smell of mulberry leaves. Therefore, they will no longer be picky and will eat other leaves at will. From the progress of artificial feed research for silkworms in recent years, people have basically found out the types of nutrients necessary for the growth of silkworms and their minimum requirements. Only by eating mulberry leaves can silkworms grow and develop healthily and successfully complete their generation alternation.

4. What to do if there is no mulberry leaves for raising silkworms?

You can go to your park or the suburbs to pick them. There are wild mulberry trees in the park and the suburbs. If there are no wild mulberry trees, you can go to the gates of various primary schools. Generally, there will be mulberry leaves for sale during school hours. If there are really no mulberry leaves, you can go to the vegetable market to buy some celery leaves, which can also be eaten by silkworms! I wish your silkworms good health!