Rearing of silkworms

• Selected healthy silk moths are allowed to mate for 4 hours.
• Female moth is then kept in a dark plastic bed.
• She lays about 400 eggs in 24 hours, the female is taken out and is crushed and examined for any disease, only the certified disease- free eggs are reared for industrial purpose.
• The eggs are hatched in an incubator.
• The hatched larvae are kept in trays inside a rearing house at a temperature of about 20°C-25°C. These are first fed on chopped mulberry leaves.
• After 4-5 days fresh leaves are provided. As the larvae grow, they are transferred to fresh leaves on clean trays, when fully grown they spin cocoons.