The Free-Ride offspring have been using the silkworms as a springboard for discussions of math as well as biology.
We started with 16 silkworms hatched from eggs that came home last June. They were joined, a couple weeks after they hatched, by another 15 silkworms brought home from the science classroom at school.
You may recall our dispatch last weekend when the largest of the Free-Ride silkworms indicated their readiness to pupate.
They didn’t figure it out right away.
Another cool, dewy morning today as I went out to pick gastropods. The wet grass brushing against my bare legs got at least some of that moisture from the slugs stretched along the blades.
Tomorrow morning I’m going to remember to put on jeans before I go out snailing.
It didn’t end up raining yesterday (so I didn’t get a chance to test my dedication to snailing by snailing in the rain). Today dawned cold and dewy.
Which meant I knew I was going to get some gastropod action.
This morning was cool, overcast, and very dry. There was no discernible dew on the grass.
In other words, not conditions in which the gastropods come out to play.
This was another cool, dewy morning following on the heels of a blazing hot day.
In other words, good snailing weather.
Yesterday was a super-hot day, and this morning was cool and dewy. Later, though, we’re expecting temperatures higher than yesterday’s.
So the gastropods were out enjoying the break in the heat while it lasted.
This morning I overslept, so I didn’t get out into the yard until 6:15 AM to commence the gastropod picking.
Either someone got to them before me, or there just aren’t many left in the parts of the yard I am actively patrolling.