All the silkies have now started or finished their cocoons. Whoo hoooo!!!!! The endless feeding and cleaning rituals that have taken up 2-3 hrs of every day the last 2 weeks are over. Now, I just have to figure out what to do with all of those cocoons. I have started removing the blaze. Those are the first fibers the worms spin. They act as a support structure for the cocoon.
I plan on selecting a few of the best for breeding and will let all of the colors emerge. However, I am hopful that my jr. sericulturist wil be open to the idea of stiffeling most of them. Somehow, the concept of 150+ moths emerging and doing what they do does NOT sound appealing.
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| cup of blaze, and deblazed cocoons |
All the silkies have now started or finished their cocoons. Whoo hoooo!!!!! The endless feeding and cleaning rituals that have taken up 2-3 hrs of every day the last 2 weeks are over. Now, I just have to figure out what to do with all of those cocoons. I have started removing the blaze. Those are the first fibers the worms spin. They act as a support structure for the cocoon.
I plan on selecting a few of the best for breeding and will let all of the colors emerge. However, I am hopful that my jr. sericulturist wil be open to the idea of stiffeling most of them. Somehow, the concept of 150+ moths emerging and doing what they do does NOT sound appealing.
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| Cocoon with blaze still attatched. |
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| Variation in size and shape of cocoons. |
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| Color Variation L-R: natural, Glowing Cyan, Magic Purple, unknown mix of Purple and Cotton Candy or Cyan ?, Cotton Candy |
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| L-R natural, Glowing Cyan, Magic Purple, unknown mix of Magic Purple and Glowing Cyan or Cotton Candy, Cotton Candy |
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| 65 natural cocoons in a "rearing container". |
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