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fiberandfancysticks · 2 years

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Roughly 100 cocoons in a box!!! Now I have space in my Assortment of Cardboard Tubes to continue sticking starting-to-spin silkworms in them! (there are still lots more than 150 silkworms. I bought supposedly 250 eggs!)

This fluff is the extra silk from around all of these cocoons! Apparently, you can just spin this straight up? I'm going to try it!

I attempted to weigh the fluff, and it is less than a gram! I am VERY EXCITED! SILK!!!

#things about my life #Adventures in Silkworm Rearing!#they're still munch munch munching SO MANY mulberry leaves! >_<;;#the cocoons are so pretty though!#I lost track around 85 #and added several handfuls of cocoons after that #so there's at least 95 #and possibly more than 100!#There's still lots of cocoons-in-progress in the boxes #but they need to be Sturdy Enough To Pick Up to go in this box!#I am very excited by both SILK and NEARLY reaching the end of CONSTANT MULBERRY LEAVES!!!#My kitten found me putting the cocoons in this box more interesting than anything else about the silkworms #she sat on my desk watching me #sometimes she'd carefully sniff the cocoons #when I stopped she inspected them one last time and wandered off to nap #It was very cute! she was Very Helpful!#Also I am ABSOLUTELY finding somewhere she can't get to them to store the cocoons!#in this box and free of their safety fluff they DO rather resemble Things That Could Be Cat Toys #XD

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