My son brought home a silk worm last week in a little glass jar with holes in it. Last night we did not see him, as we opened the jar we found the silk worm stuck to the top of the jar looking as if it was in a cocoon. We all scared didn't know what to do. Question, is the worm inside the cocoon and what do we do with it.
Thanks
2006-07-03 05:33:12 · 8 answers · asked by bootsie54 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
The silk worm will come out of the cocoon as a white, flightless moth. You don't have to worry about feeding it as they are not capable of eating. It is why moths have thicker bodies then butterflies, they have to live off there body fat while butterflies can drink nectar.
2006-07-03 16:28:51 · answer #1 · answered by iceni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By this time (six days later) I'm sure that he's gone ahead and spun his cocoon. The worm is indeed inside the cocoon. The transformation from caterpillar to pupa to moth usually takes between two and three weeks. The moths are small and flightless. They do not exist in the wild - letting it go may make you feel that you are "freeing" the moth, but without another moth to mate with, it will still expire within five to seven days.
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2006-07-09 16:02:54 · answer #2 · answered by oakenking 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the worm is inside the cocoon. u dont have to do anything with it, it will grow and when the time is right it will break open the cocoon cap and lo the moth emerges.
if u want to have a single long thread then u will have to put the cocoon in boiling water{ kill the moth :( } 'cos once the cap is broken u dont get a single thread.
2006-07-03 06:27:44 · answer #3 · answered by pastel_petal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Silk comes from silk trojan horse, an wide cousin of moths and butterflies. The silk trojan horse lays eggs from which larave comes and after your time being fed on ideally on mulberry leaves(in commercial operations). they pass into pupa (cocoon)degree. they're amassed and boiled in water. The silk yarn is the cocoon, this is bumped off like a thread. distinct the silk gown textile is made from silk trojan horse. there is also a tall plant said as Silk cotton tree(Bombax mori?),which elements cotton like textile with silk like end from its brown dry culmination. that is mostly used to make matresses and pillows and lately it isn't very consumer-friendly. it really is likewise referred to as red silk cotton, kapok etc.There are 2 varities. Bombax ceiba-grown in India, China and Australia. Ceiba pentandra grown in East indies and Americas.
2016-11-30 05:19:06 · answer #4 · answered by behymer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
let him be for a while, he will come out as a silk moth when he is ready or you can boil him now if you want to use the silk for another project. My son did a science report and raised a bunch of these and then we dyed some of the silk and displayed it.
2006-07-03 05:38:34 · answer #5 · answered by jaxxchica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol you've got a cruel sense of humour candy!
It is a cocoon, leave it, let it hatch then let it go. Then you and your son can unravel the cocoon together... what a great biology lesson!
2006-07-03 05:47:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya the worm is in there. dont touch it and leave it along and then it will turn into a butterlfy and then let it out of the jar. you could try to move it to somewhere else but that mite hurt it.
2006-07-03 05:36:34 · answer #7 · answered by allaboutpink101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SILKWORMS DON'T HAVE COCOONS!!!!!!!!!!!! FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-07-03 05:39:24 · answer #8 · answered by candy no's 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋