Silkworms are very special. They only eat mulberry leaves. If there are no more mulberry leaves, maybe there will be no more silkworms. Also there are a limited number of places in the world where mulberry trees can live, and in turn there are a limited number of places in the world where silkworms can be raised. Silkworms can eat a lot of mulberry leaves! View this video to watch how they eat over several hours. This is a time-lapsed video, so several hours is condensed down to about a minute. Click on the start button to view the video.
Once the silkworms have eaten a lot of leaves, and have grown be big and fat, they change to a slightly yellow color. The silkworm then looks for a good place to spin a cocoon. The corner of a box is a suitable place to do this. To see a silkworm spin silk and make a cocoon, click on the start button to view the video. This is a time-lapsed video. It takes between half a day and a full day for a silkworm to create a cocoon. Once in a while two silkworms will make one bigger cocoon together. In this video you will see one silkworm.
Once the silkworms have eaten a lot of leaves, and have grown be big and fat, they change to a slightly yellow color. The silkworm then looks for a good place to spin a cocoon. The corner of a box is a suitable place to do this. To see a silkworm spin silk and make a cocoon, click on the start button to view the video. This is a time-lapsed video. It takes between half a day and a full day for a silkworm to create a cocoon. Once in a while two silkworms will make one bigger cocoon together. In this video you will see one silkworm.