Those wee little silkworms which you saw in videos last week are growing at an impressive rate.
Here, see for yourself:
They’re bigger!
Owing to their voracious appetites, the silkworms have sent us ransacking neighborhood mulberry trees (we’ve identified three so far)and bringing back a gallon of leaves at a time. They don’t last long. At this point, the leaf-munching is loud enough that you can hear it if you hold your ear close to their container.
The day the silkworms molted:
My better half has graciously allowed me to post the picture of the molted silkworm faceplates here:
I suppose these might be fun for ladybug dress-up games.