Did I know anything about silk worms when my son brought them from school? Well, no! But this experience turned out both educative and lifechanging for both the worms and the humans ))))
On June 9th my son brought 69 little ugly almost black worms home, told me that it's a school project of observing the little creatures and making notes, I put them outside to the garden in a big shoebox, but as soon as I gave them a few mulberry leaves the next morning, I couldn't stop filming them, reading all about taking care of them and, the most important, touching them, what was strictly prohibited for "they're not toys", according to my son.
How surprised I was seeing these little guys being hungry all the time, they were growing "what are you feeding them with?" kind of way, consuming from four to five leaves per day and increasing this quantity up to 10 in two weeks.
But one day suddenly one of the worms stopped eating and started to just wander around the box making bizarre movements with its cute head - he was searching for a place to make a cocoon. I've never seen a worm making a cocoon before, so I was stuck there staring at it for about an hour, then I looked it up on the internet, the process should have been taken about 10 hours, haha, so I've decided to check on it in the morning. And by this time four worms made their cocoons!!!
Just yestarday last cocoon was finished and now we're waiting for the first moth to be born, or for the first worm to be reborn in a moth's body ))
Unfortunately, silk worms and their moths are completely dependent on us, humans, due to being domisticated about 4000 years ago in China and the evolution the way of lost ability to fly and total blindness. That's why having them didn't feel like depriving them from freedom.
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