Sericulture Diary
Weather on May 2nd: Showers Mood: Good
Today, after many days of waiting, Teacher Chen finally delivered silkworm babies~, I am so happy! I opened it carefully In the box, there are nine white silkworms crawling around on the big, green mulberry leaves. Although the silkworm baby is small, it has a big appetite. Sometimes, in order to eat mulberry leaves more conveniently, it sometimes adopts the posture of hanging upside down from a golden hook, hugs the edge of the mulberry leaves tightly with its eight little feet, and eats greedily with its mouth facing up. After a while, a large piece of mulberry leaves were eaten by them.
Weather on May 3rd: Showers Mood: Looking forward
When I got home from school, I found that the silkworm babies had grown up a lot, and their bodies began to gain weight, as if they had adapted to this. New environment. I heard that silkworm babies can shed their skins, so I started to look forward to it, come on!
The weather on May 4th: showers, mood: happy
When I came home from school in the evening, I was surprised to find two I'm so happy that one of the silkworm babies has started to shed its skin, but I also found that one of the silkworm babies started to become thinner at some point. Why is this?
May 5 Weather: Showers Mood: Good< /p>
When I came home from middle school, I found that the mulberry leaves had begun to dry up, probably due to the hot weather, and there was a lot of excrement in the silkworm babies' little house, so I carefully placed them on a plate and poured out the excrement. , and then cover with clean and fresh mulberry leaves. As soon as the silkworm baby was placed on the mulberry leaf, it started to nibble happily again. I looked at them happily and thought: What a bunch of greedy babies!
The weather on May 6th: cloudy. Mood: worried
At noon, two silkworm babies molted. , after peeling off the skin, the silkworm babies become white, plump and very cute. When they eat mulberry leaves, they make a faint "rustling" sound, which is really interesting. However, one of the silkworm babies stopped eating. I thought: Is this silkworm too small to eat large pieces of mulberry leaves? So I used scissors to cut the mulberry leaves into strips and put them in front of the little silkworm, but it still raised its little head proudly. I can’t eat a bite of my head, I’m really anxious! What should I do?
May 7 Weather: Cloudy Mood: Very good
Today , the school distributed mulberry leaves to us once. When I thought that my silkworm babies had fresh mulberry leaves to eat, I felt happy.
When I got home, I couldn’t take care of eating, so I immediately replaced the silkworm babies with new leaves. Huh? Two silkworm babies have molted, that’s great!
May 8 weather: cloudy Mood: sad
Today, I found two silkworm babies were injured. There were obvious blood stains on Bai Bai's body! And every movement was painful. Why was this? So at my suggestion, my mother helped the silkworm baby change to a small house. I must protect my silkworm baby well and not let it go. They were injured again!
Weather on May 9th: Cloudy Mood: Very sad
Because I was thinking about the blood-stained silkworms, so when I woke up, I immediately went to see mine Silkworm baby. Oh my God, the sad thing happened after all: two silkworm babies were dead! I looked at the silkworm babies blankly, and tears fell immediately. My father comforted me and said: "It doesn't matter, the silkworm babies' bodies can be used as plants." Let’s put the fertilizer in the soil of the yellow bark tree.” I nodded with tears in my eyes.
After being sad all day, when I got home, I could see my cute silkworm baby again. It took a whole day for Bitter Melon to have a smile on his face. After not seeing each other for a day, my silkworm baby seems to have gained weight again. After dinner, I couldn't wait to help the silkworm baby change the mulberry leaves. While I was changing it, I whispered to the silkworm baby: "Silkworm baby, my grandma went to the park to pick these for you to eat. Eat more." Those two are the fattest. The silkworm babies seemed to have heard my words. As soon as the mulberry leaves were put in, they immediately started to nibble. Who knows, after eating a few mouthfuls, the silkworm baby suddenly swayed from side to side in pain, and then spit out green water. At this time, other silkworm babies also started to spit out green water. I looked at my silkworm baby in shock. He died within a few minutes.
I cried sadly, and my parents comforted me for a long time before I stopped crying. When I was sleeping, I secretly hid under the quilt and cried for a while.
Weather on May 10th: cloudy, mood: normal
After so many days of raising silkworms, all the silkworm babies died. What is the reason?
Accompanied by my father, the two of us searched the Internet for information about sericulture. It turns out that the mulberry leaves eaten by silkworm babies must be fresh and clean. It is best to wash the collected mulberry leaves before feeding, because there may be pesticide residues and germs on them. Wash them and dry them before feeding them to the silkworm babies. Otherwise, the silkworms will suffer from diarrhea or even death if they eat them. Also, silkworm babies are actually very fragile and easily infected with diseases. If a sick silkworm is found to be abnormal or dead, it should be cleaned up quickly and the sick silkworm should be isolated in time to prevent the infection from spreading to other silkworms. Oh, it turns out that my failure in raising silkworms this time was caused by feeding unclean mulberry leaves to the silkworm babies. There is really a lot of knowledge involved in raising silkworms!
Through this time of raising silkworms, I have learned some experience: You cannot just rely on enthusiasm to do things, you must pay attention to methods, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort.