Today is the first day of summer in the southern hemisphere. It feel more like autumn than summer though. At the moment the outdoor temperature is 13.5 oC. Hardly summer temperature.
Indoors though it's 20.8 oC.
Despite the cooler weather the moulting continues.
The largest of the silkworms is now 3cm long.
Mr Honey Pie has been doing some house painting indoors. We have been trying to redecorate since July. Painting only gets done when Mr Honey Pie gets consecutive days off from his roster, or when he has consecutive late starting shifts. As well as that, it's necessary that he has no previous appointments on those days. Finally, he was able to paint the main bathroom and the smallest room in the house.
We had to take the silkworm containers and their contents into the garage while the painting was going on.
Silkworm larvae are sensitive to various fumes.
Things like essential oils can kill the larvae.
After all, they are an insect. Lavender essential oil is an insect repellent so lavender oil and silkworms just don't mix.
So to be on the safe side, out went the silkworms into a fume free zone.
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