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1. A beginner’s guide to silkworm farming?

1. Breeding for beginners

When a novice raises silkworms, he needs to prepare a clean, odor-free ordinary paper box or wooden box, then put the purchased silkworm eggs into the paper box, and place the box in a greenhouse that can regulate the temperature. The indoor temperature should be controlled between 21-29 degrees to promote rapid hatching of the silkworm eggs.

2. Feed mulberry leaves

Silkworms grow very fast and have a high demand for mulberry leaves. When raising silkworms, you need to prepare fresh, pesticide-free green mulberry leaves. Use a sharp knife to cut the mulberry leaves into small pieces, and then spread them on the box. Allow the silkworms to eat freely, and feed them mulberry leaves every 3-4 hours to ensure that there is enough food.

3. Suitable environment

Silkworms live in a clean environment. When raising silkworms, if the environment is too dirty, the silkworms will be infected with diseases. The boxes need to be cleaned every 2-3 days. The feces and leftover mulberry leaves in the boxes can be cleaned out, and the windows should be opened from morning to afternoon every day to ventilate the silkworms.

4. Feeding methods

When raising silkworms, the indoor temperature needs to be controlled at around 25 degrees, which is the optimal growth temperature. Silkworms of different ages like to eat different types of mulberry leaves. Silkworms aged 1-3 like to eat tenderer mulberry leaves, while silkworms aged 4-5 can be fed older mulberry leaves, which is beneficial for mulberry to absorb cellulose to spin silk and make cocoons.

2. How to raise silkworms?

Step/Method 1

Prepare a cardboard box of corresponding size according to the number of silkworms you raise, put A4 paper on the bottom of the box, and place a board on the box to prevent mice from eating the silkworms.

Step/Method 2

Put the silkworm eggs into a box, place the box in a place with suitable temperature, and sprinkle a little water in the box to increase the hatching rate.

Step/Method 3

Use scissors to cut the fresh mulberry leaves into pieces and feed them to the silkworms. Be sure to wipe the water off the selected mulberry leaves with a rag, otherwise the silkworms will get sick after eating them.

Step/Method 4

When the silkworms grow up and are about to spin silk, they will not like to eat much. At the same time, their feces will change from dark green to turquoise. You can put the silkworms that are about to spin silk in a box. Do not open the lid frequently and wait patiently for them to turn into silkworm pupae.

3. New technologies and methods for silkworm breeding?

1. Preparation

Before raising silkworms, be sure to prepare a clean, odor-free cardboard box, and then poke some small holes on the top of the box to facilitate ventilation.

2. Incubation

Place the silkworm eggs in a carton at a temperature of 21-29°C. The incubation time is generally about 11 days.

3. Feeding

(1) When the silkworms are about to hatch, put an appropriate amount of fresh mulberry leaves into the cardboard box for the silkworms to eat.

(2) When silkworms are in the young stage, they can be fed with fresh and tender mulberry leaves. When they are in the adult stage, they can be fed with ordinary mulberry leaves.

(3) Before feeding, be sure to check the mulberry leaves carefully to pick out diseased, moldy, and insect-infested leaves, and make sure there is no water on the leaves, otherwise the silkworms will easily suffer from diarrhea after eating them.

4. Cleaning

(1) The old mulberry leaves in the cartons must be removed regularly and replaced with fresh mulberry leaves. All silkworm feces in the cartons must be cleaned up.

(2) When changing mulberry leaves to clean the feces, you must use a brush. The silkworms on the old mulberry leaves can be gently swept onto the new mulberry leaves, and then the silkworm feces and old mulberry leaves in the cardboard box are cleaned, and finally the new mulberry leaves are put into the cardboard box.

(3) If there are dead silkworms in the carton, be sure to clean it up immediately to prevent other silkworms from being infected.

4. How to raise silkworms with complete set of techniques?

1. Place the silkworm eggs in a box and wait for them to hatch. The most suitable temperature is 25℃-28℃. If the temperature is lower, you can cover the box with a lid.

2. Newly hatched silkworms must be cared for with special care and fed with relatively tender leaves.

3. When the silkworm is dormant, it does not eat or move. On the surface, it is sleeping, but in fact it is shedding its old skin and replacing it with a new one to continue growing. The silkworm will shed its skin 4 times during the whole breeding process. Each time it sheds its skin, it will not eat or move. At this time, try not to disturb it, and do not throw it away thinking it is sick. Each dormant period of the silkworm lasts about one day.

4. Generally, the silkworms start to spin cocoons around 25 days old. When the silkworms' backs are shiny, yellow and transparent, it means that they are about to spin silk and spin cocoons. At this time, a cross space should be provided for the silkworms to spin cocoons. It takes two days to spin a complete cocoon, and the silkworms complete the last molting in the cocoon and become pupae.

5. Male and female silkworm moths mate shortly after emerging from their cocoons. After mating, the female moth takes 4-5 hours to lay 400 eggs and then slowly dies.