CATDOLL : CATDOLL: The pros and cons of raising silkworms for children (Is it good for children to raise silkworms)

1. What inspiration does raising silkworms bring to children?

Every spring I would buy some silkworms for my children to raise. Raising silkworms is very inspiring for children. First, it can enhance their observation ability and let them see with their own eyes how silkworms grow bigger day by day and how they break out of cocoons and become butterflies.

Secondly, it can cultivate children's hands-on ability and sense of responsibility. Silkworms need to eat fresh mulberry leaves, and their living places need to be cleaned up in time. Only by doing it yourself can the silkworms grow up healthily. Without a strong sense of responsibility, it is impossible to raise silkworms until the day when they turn into moths.

2. Tips for raising silkworms for children?

1. From silkworm ants to silkworm babies:

Suitable temperature: 20-25℃, time: 2-3 days for incubation.

Collecting ants: The little silkworms will crawl out of the egg shell like ants. Use very light gestures to collect and lead them to the tender leaves.

Note: Silkworm eggs need to be kept in a ventilated and dark place during hatching period.

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2. Feeding silkworms:

The living habits of silkworms are: sleep when full, eat when awake;

Living environment: Plastic or wooden flat box,

Note: The mulberry leaves should be fresh. You can also collect them in a plastic bag each time, use a few leaves every day, and sprinkle some water on the rest and put them in the refrigerator to keep them fresh. The collected leaves will have some dust, so you can wash them and dry them. You must dry them, otherwise the young or adult silkworms will have diarrhea if they eat them.

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3. Silkworms spin silk and make cocoons:

Molting: After molting once, the larvae become the second-instar larvae. Each time the larvae molts, they become one year older. They molt a total of four times.

Cocooning: 7-8 days after molting four times, the owl stops eating mulberry leaves, its body starts to shine, and it begins to look for a suitable place to start cocooning.

Note: Put some supporting objects in the silkworm box to help the silkworms make cocoons.

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4. About silkworm droppings:

Silkworm feces, which consist of black particles, can be used as medicine in traditional Chinese medicine and are also a good nutrient for plants.

Silkworm excrement, also known as silkworm sand, has the effects of curing dampness, curing itching, removing internal heat, removing rheumatism, and improving hearing and eyesight. Many elderly people dry it and make it into pillows for their newborn babies to sleep on.

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5. Silkworms emerge from their cocoons:

The silkworm sheds its skin for the final time (fifth time) in the cocoon and becomes a pupa. After about 7-10 days, the pupa turns into a silkworm moth and emerges from the cocoon.

Note: The fat one is the mother of the silkworm, and the thin one is the father of the silkworm. Let the father and mother of the silkworm live together, and you can see a lot of silkworm eggs the next day. If you protect them well, these silkworm eggs can hatch again in the spring of the next year.

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6: Note: Silkworms are particularly sensitive to fragrance, so perfume, mosquito coils, air purifiers, scented cosmetics, etc. are not allowed. Any type of pesticide is absolutely prohibited! Raising silkworms can stimulate children's creativity, interest, and touch life, which is conducive to improving children's hands-on ability and observation ability. It is also a good content of family affection activities. The following is a picture of the harvest of our silkworm raising~~

3. What are the benefits of raising silkworms for young children?

The benefits of silkworm rearing for young children are:

1. Raising silkworms can enhance children's observation ability, cultivate their patience and carefulness, and develop good habits of diligent and good observation.

2. Cultivate children's serious attitude towards everything and good habits of starting and ending well.

3. Children actively participate in the whole process of learning and exploration, which cultivates their innovative thinking ability.

4. Re-examine life, recognize the value of life, give him life education, and cultivate the love for nature.

5. Raising silkworms can also build a healthy parent-child relationship.

6. Cultivate children’s compassion to care for small animals and love small lives.

4. What is the significance of raising silkworms for young children?

Raising silkworms can stimulate children's creativity, interest, touch life, and scientific thinking, which is beneficial to children's hands-on ability and is also a good content for family affection activities. Raising silkworms can help children understand the natural laws of a small life's appearance changes, life transformations, aging, illness and death. Helping children to use their brains and boldly experiment can have a good educational effect. At the same time, the process of raising silkworms can also make children feel the significance of "nurturing" for the growth of a life, and can generate associations of love and dedication from things and people, achieving the method of guiding people to be kind.

5. Is it suitable for children to raise silkworms?

Children are suitable for raising silkworms. However, when raising silkworms, children should pay attention to the temperature. Silkworms like warm environments. It is best to raise them in April and May, with a temperature between 20-25 degrees, which is more suitable for the roots of silkworms and convenient for management. They should be fed with fresh mulberry leaves and cleaned up, otherwise they will easily have diarrhea after eating. In addition, attention should be paid to hygiene, which should be cleaned up every day. If there is silkworm feces in the breeding room, it will cause diseases and hinder growth.

6. Why do children like to raise silkworms?

Sericulture activities can cultivate children's observation and hands-on abilities and enhance parent-child interaction.

In fact, there are many benefits to raising silkworms for young children. First of all, it makes children interested. There are new changes every day. Recording the process of silkworms, from larvae to pupae, from pupae to moths, and the process of moths laying eggs, cultivates children's observation ability, makes children love life, and discovers and explores all things they have never seen. Everything is fresh, and it also cultivates children to use their brains more and broaden their horizons.

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of raising silkworms?

The main benefit of raising silkworms is that you can make money, but the disadvantage is that the silkworms are easily killed, which means the people lose money. In many areas of rural Northeast China, people make a living by raising silkworms. Raising silkworms is a technical job that not everyone can do. It requires a lot of skills, and it is very easy to kill silkworms if you don't raise them well. People mainly make money by buying cocoons or pupae. If the harvest is not good, they will lose money.

8. Can children raise silkworms for fun?

The answer is yes. It is very suitable for raising silkworms. This will cultivate children's love and observation skills, and make them very careful. You don't have to worry that your child will not focus on learning. On the contrary, your child will understand animals better. It can cultivate his love, let him have a better understanding of new things, and guide him to explore nature. I think it's good. I raised silkworms when I was a child. If you pay attention to cleaning every day, you can raise fewer.