CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Design of silkworm breeding process record sheet (design picture of silkworm breeding process record sheet)

1. What is the whole process of silkworm rearing?

1. Hatching silkworm eggs: Place the silkworm eggs in a warm place such as an electric blanket or pocket.

2. Feeding food: Provide silkworms with fresh, dry mulberry leaves once a day.

3. Clean regularly: Clean the paper box once a day to remove any remaining food and feces.

4. Note: When the silkworms are making cocoons, put some dry branches and bamboo strips in the paper box.

2. How to fill in the silkworm growth record sheet?

The growth record of silkworms should first record the time, secondly the temperature, and thirdly the length.

3. The whole process of silkworm rearing?

There are five stages in silkworm rearing: silkworm eggs - larvae - mature silkworms - silk cocoons - silk moths, which takes a total of more than forty days.

Ant silkworm: When the silkworm hatches from the egg, its body is brown or reddish brown, very small, and has many fine hairs, which looks a bit like an ant, so it is called an ant silkworm. The ant silkworm is about 2 mm long and 0.5 mm wide. After it crawls out of the egg shell, it will eat mulberry leaves after 2 to 3 hours.

The sleeping nature of silkworms: Silkworms eat a lot of mulberry, so they grow very fast and their body color gradually fades. But their appetite gradually decreases or even completely stops eating. They spit out a small amount of silk, fix their abdomen and feet on the silkworm seat, raise their head and chest, and stop moving, as if they are asleep. This is called "sleeping". The sleeping silkworms may seem motionless on the outside, but they are preparing to shed their skin inside. After shedding the old skin, the silkworms enter a new age. From ant silkworms to spinning silk cocoons, they shed their skin four times in total. Having the sleep nature is one of the growth characteristics of silkworms. Sleep nature is a genetic trait of silkworms and is also affected by the environment. The silkworms currently raised in my country belong to the four-sleeping varieties.

Silkworm age: also known as age period, which indicates the development stage of the silkworm. From the ant silkworm to the first molt is the first age; after waking up from sleep, it enters the second age; after molting again, it enters the third age; after the third molt, it enters the fourth age, and the fourth molt is also called the long sleep. After the long sleep, it enters the fifth age. The fifth-age silkworm grows very fast, with a body length of 6 to 7 cm and a weight of about 10,000 times the weight of the ant silkworm.

Mature silkworms: When silkworms reach the end of the fifth instar, they gradually show the characteristics of maturity: first, the feces they excrete change from hard to soft, and from dark green to leaf green; their appetite decreases, and the amount of food they eat decreases; the front digestive tract is empty, and the chest becomes transparent; then they stop eating completely, their bodies shorten, and their abdomens tend to be transparent; their head and chest are raised, they spit out silk threads from their mouths, and they swing left and right and up and down to find a place to build their cocoons. Such silkworms are called mature silkworms.

Cocooning during the adult stage: People put mature silkworms in special containers or on cocoons, and the silkworms will spin silk and make cocoons.

4. What methods can be used to record silkworm breeding?

Silkworm breeding records can be recorded in the form of a diary to record the daily growth and changes of silkworms. Silkworms slowly hatch from small black seeds and grow up little by little. Recording this process can exercise children's observation ability and cultivate children's patience. In the growth of silkworms, children sometimes need to learn some knowledge by looking for information. Parents should support and help their children.