#1: Re: WTB: Silkworms
Posted on 2005-08-18 13:59:22 by Maggie Stearn
This is long after the orriginal enquiry but I am interested in
silkworms and have been researching them for over two years. I rear
some each year and take them to craft fairs, giving talks about their
life cycle rearing and how silk is produced, as I am a silkweaver.
They are/can be difficult to obtain, but two or three companies do
supply. the most reliable being 'Oxford silkworms' a company which is
part of 'The Jungle' in Abbingdon, Oxon. www.junglereptiles.co.uk. At
time of posting they are having trouble with customs and Exise, but
intend to keep supplying when 'things' are sorted. They also supply
artificial food in powder form which is a good substitute for mulberry
leaves, which are indeed difficult to find in the UK. Worldwide
butterlies - on the internet - WWB.co.uk will supply mulberry plants to
grow.
Hope this is of use to someone.
Regards Maggie
John Savage Wrote:
> Gregory Toomey nospam@bigpond.com writes:-
> You need a mulberry leaves (or rhubarb leaves) for feed. Can be more
> difficult to find than silkworms!-
>
> Rhubarb? Well, who'd have thought it? But I think the silkworms will
> dine
> out on lettuce, too. It gives a white silk, whereas it's the mulberry
> that produces the beautiful golden strands of silk, IIRC. We had some
> silkworms when I was a kid. I didn't like boiling them alive, though,
> after all the hard work they'd done.
> --
> John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in
> newsgroup)
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Maggie Stearn
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