It’s that time of the year again. The mulberries are ripe and the silkworms are eating lots of green mulberry leaves and growing very, very fat. At the start of Spring when the mulberry leaves were first budding, we all thought about the silkworms we had last year and wondered where we had put the eggs that the moths had laid at the start of summer. When at last we found them in a little box that had been hidden away, we saw that they were all hatching and there were hundreds of tiny little worms (caterpillars) no bigger than an ant crawling about. We have now been feeding them every day and they have grown very big and they are very hungry. Silkworms make wonderful ‘pets’ and many are looking for a new home.

If you would like to adopt some silk worms and have access to a mulberry tree, please drop by the Kindergarten on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday at 3pm with a container and some leaves. You will be able to watch them spin their wonderful silk cocoons. You may even be able to watch the moths hatch, mate and then lay eggs that you can put away and save for next year!