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"

Silkworm Project

We received our silkworm eggs today!!! We got 25 eggs. They came in a petri dish, and we put the petri dish under a dark bowl and put a moist paper towel next to it and left the bowl lifted up a bit, and put the whole thing next to a window. The moist paper towel is to keep it moist so the eggs don't dry up.

The eggs look like tiny little black things that are blackish/grayish. They kind of look like tiny miniscule seeds.