CATDOLL : CATDOLL: I'm about to start raising silkworms again, but picking mulberry leaves is too tiring. Can anyone tell me if there are any tools for picking mulberry leaves?

1. I am about to start raising silkworms again, but picking mulberry leaves is too tiring. Can anyone tell me if there are any tools for picking mulberry leaves?

Hello, you can go to the Sericulture website, where many manufacturers have introduced that there is a semi-automatic leaf picker that is generally sold now, which can save some labor. You can contact the manufacturer to see if it can meet your requirements. If it is helpful to you, remember to adopt it.

2. Sericulture and mulberry leaf picking

At least it has not been mechanized yet and can only be picked manually!

3. What tools are needed to raise silkworms?

Let it eat mulberry leaves

4. How much space is needed for silkworm breeding? What tools and precautions are needed?

The size of the space required depends on the number of silkworms to be raised and how many people are raising them. In the breeding room, there are bed frames made of wood or bamboo trunks, baskets for sifting lime and disinfectant powder, and clusters for silkworms to spin silk when they mature.

Pay special attention to the safety of mulberry leaves. When treating insects, choose low-toxic and low-residue ones. Do this one month before raising silkworms.

The silkworm room should be disinfected carefully and strictly, and it is strictly forbidden to spray pesticides around it when raising silkworms.

5. What else can be used for silkworm breeding besides mulberry leaves?

In addition to mulberry leaves, silkworms can also eat mulberry leaves, elm leaves, grape leaves, scorch sedge, dandelions and lettuce leaves.

The nutrients necessary for silkworms include proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, inorganic salts and water. Mulberry leaves are the most suitable natural food for silkworms. After eating mulberry leaves, the larvae grow rapidly. Under suitable temperature conditions, a silkworm molts once every 6-9 days from hatching to spinning cocoons, which takes about 24-32 days in total. It eats about 20-30g of mulberry leaves (5-6.2g of dry matter). Generally, after four dormancy and molting, its weight increases by about 10,000 times when it reaches the extreme growth.

Benefits of mulberry leaves for silkworm rearing. Spraying silkworms to cool down and relieve heat

In summer, the temperature is high and silkworms are prone to illness. If the room temperature is too high, silkworms are prone to heatstroke and death. In hot weather, add 5 ml of fermentation liquid to one pound of water and spray it on the silkworm body, once in the afternoon and once every day.

Tips for raising silkworms and saving mulberry leaves

Under normal circumstances, 15 kg of mulberry leaves are needed to produce 1 kg of silk cocoons. By taking measures to save mulberry leaves, about 50 kg of mulberry leaves can be saved for each silkworm seed, while the production and quality of silk cocoons will not be affected at all. The measures to save mulberry leaves are:

⒈ Mulberry leaves should be picked, transported and stored properly. Try to pick leaves in the morning or evening, transport them as soon as they are picked, and pack them loosely for fast transportation. After shaking the picked mulberry leaves loose, put them in the mulberry storage pool or mulberry storage room, and store them properly to prevent them from being blown away by the wind or piled up and heated and deteriorated, resulting in waste of mulberry leaves.

⒉ Prevent mulberry leaves from wilting. During the young silkworm stage, use a kang bed (room) and cover the mulberry leaves with plastic film to keep the temperature and moisture, so that the mulberry leaves remain fresh. During the adult silkworm stage, close the doors and windows appropriately after feeding the silkworms, and then open the doors and windows for ventilation after the silkworms have eaten about 70% of the mulberry leaves, which can effectively prevent the mulberry leaves from wilting.

⒊ Ensure the temperature of the silkworm room. The suitable temperature for large and small silkworms is 24℃ and 25℃ respectively. Within the suitable temperature range, the silkworms have a strong appetite, which reduces the defective mulberry leaves and improves the leaf-silk conversion rate.

⒋ Promote less-rearing and strip-mulberry rearing. Labor-saving silkworm rearing technologies such as flat three-dimensional rearing of small silkworms once a day, rearing of all-age silkworms twice, and strip-mulberry rearing of large silkworms not only improve silkworm rearing efficiency, but also help silkworms eat mulberry leaves, saving about 5% of mulberry leaves compared with ordinary rearing.

⒌ Plan the use of mulberry and give mulberry in a fixed amount. Set a standard amount of mulberry for each age, day, and period according to the different stages of silkworms, so as to achieve "silkworms are well fed without waste, and mulberry is used economically without starving silkworms". At the beginning and end of each age of silkworms, the silkworms consume less mulberry, so feed them leaves in moderation. During the peak feeding period of 5-year-old silkworms, the silkworms should be fully fed, but the maximum daily amount of mulberry should be controlled within 110 kg.

6. Add molting hormone to the food. When the silkworms are about 5% mature, use one tube of molting hormone for each bed of seeds, add 25 kg of water, mix with 20 kg of mulberry leaves, and feed them to the silkworms at once. This can help the silkworms mature together, and each bed of seeds can save about 10 kg of mulberry leaves.