New Silkworms.

(Dictated and photos by Waratah)

Yesterday we picked up our silkworms.
Today, one has started building a cocoon.




There are four more who are hungry.

We picked some mulberry leaves for them. We have four different mulberry trees. We want to find out which leaves the silkworms like best.

The English mulberry has very fuzzy leaves. The White mulberry has small leaves which are lighter coloured.


The Boy mulberry has flowers but never fruit. The Girl mulberry has lots of fruit. Their leaves look the same but I think they smell different. They are big and shiny. We snipped the stems off the leaves from the Girl mulberry so we could tell them apart.

We put the five caterpillars in the box with the four types of leaves. We will check back later to see which ones they like the most.




We put the caterpillars in their box with the leaves and some boxes for building cocoons in. The caterpillar who was building his cocoon started moving around more. We wonder if he is hungry and will stop building his cocoon to eat?

UPDATE
Here are the leaves we tested. The English Mulberry was the most popular. We wonder if that was what the silkworms were used to? When we breed our own silkworms, we will test them again as babies.