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My full and kooky life as a homeschooling mommy to 2 great kids, raising a child with HLHS (Hypolastic Left Heart Syndrome), coping with depression, following Jesus, and being much too camera happy.
My full and kooky life as a homeschooling mommy to 2 great kids, raising a child with HLHS (Hypolastic Left Heart Syndrome), coping with depression, following Jesus, and being much too camera happy.
15 responses to “Wordless Wednesday: 6-19-’24. Silkworm moths”
I’m not a huge fan of moths, but yay homeschool science experiment! 😁
These 2 little moths had emerged this morning from their cocoons. They’re supposed to be flightless moths and will continue to eat mulberry leaves. We’ll see what happens afterwards…they will lay eggs and we refrigerate the eggs till next March.
It’s a learning process…trial and error. Yep, I agree, friend, homeschool experiments are fun to do and lots to observe.
Wow.
It’s been a learning experience for us to see their life cycle! They have cute little faces.
Iam so glad you did homeschool experiments are fun to do and lots to observe. Much helpful & it’s been a learning experience. Good work, Eshter!
Thank you, Raj! When our friends gave us the silkworms last month, we had very little idea of what would happen. But we’re learning a lot through our observations.
My pleasure!
Good, That’s doing , Esther! How can you observe the silkworm. ?
Oh, these are beautiful photos, Esther and truly shows the wonder of nature! How amazing to see this so close and in detail.
Thank you, Annika! We are amazed too to make these close observations and to make adaptations to their habitat. They moved from small plastic container to a medium sized cricket container to a 10 gallon fish tank. Now the 2 moths are inhabiting a plastic show box with several breathing holes made for them on top. Whew…our total number of silkworms was 94, and we’ve had 4 fatalities. We have 1 super big silkworm that has not made its cocoon yet. It might not make it since it’s so large and it doesn’t have the help of its other friends to help him.
Well that didn’t take long!
Not long at all. We have one silkworm that needs to make its cocoon, but it’s taking its time and lazily eating the last of the mulberry leaves. Its size is bigger than the rest when they built their cocoon making me wonder if it will have a tougher time. We’re all rooting for it at home! Dart only got one silkworm as a treat during this whole silkworm journey, maybe because we gave him a large one and he was choking from it. lol.
Interesting – and watching science before your very eyes. Speaking of animals choking, here in Michigan a guy and his friend saw a raccoon choking on a piece of cheese and he wanted to help it. The one guy clapped it on the back, (while his friend was videotaping this), while doing a quasi-Heimlich Maneuver on it and the cheese flew out of its mouth. The raccoon was saved. The video has gone viral … raccoon was grateful and didn’t bit him. Raccoons can get mean sometimes. Next time a smaller silkworm for Dart, no matter how much he wants a bigger one. 🙂
Here is a recovered Rocket:
https://youtu.be/SvPIZUT_dpc?si=kY7a83CLjJYNl9i3
Ahhhh, that was awesome!! Those guys were quick to act and help out the choking raccoon. Rocket lives another day to dumpster dive, thanks to his 3 human buddies!
Yes, those guys didn’t think twice about saving it – Rocket lucked out!