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Entry: Raising Silkworms - A4312360
Author: dazzlingLizardlady - U1652991

I think this entry is very inportant to those who have reptiles and birds.

Hi DLL,

Ultimately, this is going to be a fascinating Entry for the Guide - and would probably make it to the EG.

However, at the moment, the style is more amenable to a Journal Entry than a GE.

In particular, you should not use the 'First Person' ('I'). (The reasons for raising the silkworm would be best putting into that para where you state the reason for writing the Entry, when you submitted it to PR)

For the rest, you need to flesh it out a bit. Adding some Headers Wwould help you organise your thoughts a bit, e.g. Headers such as:


Obtaining Eggs

Incubating Eggs

Raising worms.

Selling silkworms.



Hope this helps

This is absolutely fascinating.

I have an entry on Static Electric Discharges and how to prevent them: A3796301 - currently in Peer Review

I haven't mentioned anything about petri dishes though.

The temperatures are 27-30 degrees C.

Your first 4 sentences, I would miss out from the GE (as I said, these really belong in the 'Reasons for submitting the Entry to PR).
Then:

Obtaining Eggs

I bought a silkworm "kit" from my silkworm supplier.
> Silkwork kits can be obtained from commerical suppliers.


Insert details of contents, cost, size etc

Incubating Eggs

perti dishes and eggs. Each petri dish holds 500 eggs and they have to be glued down because they get static electicity in the dishes. I would glue 10,000 eggs at a time in the petri dishes. I would set the temperature in the incubator for temps between 80 and 86 degrees, put them in and incubate them for 1 week. In a week the tiny worms hatch and look like little gray sticks.

Raising worms

I would have the premade food ready for them, it's kept in the refrigerator, and slice it very thin and very small slivers. It's placed on toothpicks so as not to crush the tiny worms.Not too much food can bet put in at one time or it makes too much moisture and drowns the worms. They are kept at the same temperature for 2 weeks and fed every couple of days until they get bigger, then more often. When they are about an inch long they can be removed from the incubator and put in trays that separate their waste from them or as it is called "frazz" to keep them from getting sick. They are kept at room temperature now.

What to do with adult silkworms

Then I would feed them to my lizards that could eat them and sold the rest.

You need to write this bit a bit more diplomatically/sensitively IMO.


Obviously remove the 'First Person'(I) throughout.


You should be able to copy and paste the content part of this, then the headers will come out, if you're not proficient at this yet.

PS How do you know how many eggs you're transferring, approx. Do you weigh them? If so, include this detail.

dazzlingLizardlady, are you likely to come back and work on this entry?

Flea market?

Seconded from an inactive scout still on the mailing list (if that counts),

Pimms
(I have been out of PR for months )

You've got the badge there still, so I think your opinion is sufficient...

Added to list

"an inactive scout still on the mailing list"



Do you intend doing any more scouting, Pimms?

I'd like to, but I don't feel that I can devote the time to the task that I feel it deserves, so I'd prefer to stay on the sidelines and comment occasionally in PR, which I find easiest when I am focussed by having an entry of my own in the process, but which I only do about three or four times a year.

Pimms