Silkworms, Day 1

Mommy guest-writing:

Yesterday the silkworms hatched. What were poppy seed-sized black eggs split open to release tiny, 1/8th inch black caterpillars that quickly started crawling around the petri dish looking for food. We made silkworm chow and are now feeding them little crumbs of greenish stuff the consistency of agar. LF will be measuring them every day & taking pictures to upload here.

For information on how to rear silkworms, these are good resources:

• http://insected.arizona.edu/silkrear.htm.
  
• http://suekayton.com/Silkworms/raising.htm.

We bought our eggs & silkworm chow from here: Niles Biological.

To summarize:
Day #1: 1/8"