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[meow_mix450]

Hey i need some help, im planning on breeding silk worm and i need some advice and some questions answered, please and thank you

1. I live in Scarborough and was wondering if it s o.k you breed silkworms year round out side. It will be in a mesh box.

2. Is this a mulberry tree???
http://www.pricenetwork.ca/gallery/albums/userpics/14850/normal_Img_1678.jpg

3.Also is there any sites i can check out to read up on breeding silkworm

Meow

[Matt_K]

1. How do you plan on keeping them warm outside all year???? what about the snow, you guys do get snow in Scarborough don't you???

2. That doesn't look like a mulberry tree to me.. You can pick up Mulberry Tree's at Home Depot, Walmart, Zellers and just about any other place that has a garden center this time of year. They usually cost anywhere from $20-$40.. Good luck..

[NewLineReptile]

Ask the people from silkworms.ca I'm sure they can help since it's what they do. I know they sell eggs or at least they did. Check out thier site www.silkworms.ca
Good luck

Sherri & Brandon

[DragnDrop]

Mulberry trees can have 3 different shaped leaves, even on the same branch, so it's easy to identify. There's a good picture of white mulberry branch and leaves here. (http://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/herbarium/trees/moralb_branch01.jpg)
Any mulberry will look similar to this. I can't make out the leaves on the one in your picture but it doesn't look quite like it.


Silkworms won't survive our winters, otherwise I'm sure Ag Can wouldn't allow us to have them here :) You'll have to raise them indoors, using chow or thawed leaves over the winter. It's easier and more pleasant to the human senses to use chow instead of the thawed leaves.

[Matt_K]

Here's another good look at the leaves and the fruit the tree's bare.. Keep in mind, that not all the tree's bare fruit..

http://www.esb.utexas.edu/nrm2001/restore/images/Area%201/mulberry%20tree.jpg

[meow_mix450]

YES! they look like those leaves you got there and theres a few mulberry trees around my area and this one looks like its a young one, and im hopeing its a mulberry tree. I eat those mulberrys when there ripe.:) this one was beside a mulberry tree liek urs in the pic, so i guess this is a little young ster.

I got another question how long should the cooling time be??

Meow

[HeatherRose]

Do you mean cooling, as in what you do before breeding snakes? I don't think you have to cool bugs before breeding them, but maybe someone else can offer more info on this.

[meow_mix450]

o no i meen the eggs, there cooling period

Meow

[blazinreps]

k i just started my breedin project yes those are mullberry leaves. there 2 kinds of trees iv seen so far the really big ones. and those umbrella like ones on alot of ppls front lawns they eat both. k u cnat keep them out side cuz temps get to cold and such. and for eggs i was talkin to a breeder at the newmarket show and he said leave um till they turn black and some tiems they will just hatch if they dont just refrigerate them for a few weeks then put um in the sun and they should hatch soon. so far i have four moths and im expecting eggs soon.