Silkworm feed formula

The silkworm is a common insect in our country. It likes to eat mulberry leaves. After four times of molting, it turns into a silkworm pupa and spits out white silk. It is used to make silk quilts and masks. It has a wide range of uses. Almost all of them are farmed in the south. How to make the silkworm feed formula?

First, how to make silkworm feed formula?

The silkworm feed formula is mainly made of mulberry leaves, multivitamins and compound amino acids after disinfection with sodium hypochlorite. Young silkworms are easy to accept and feed, which not only saves the breeding cost, but also greatly shortens the sericulture time and improves the economic benefit. At present, some businesses also extract substances from mulberry leaves and make them into special silkworm feed, which can help silkworm babies grow healthily.

Second, what do silkworms eat to grow fast?

Silkworms can be divided into mulberry silkworms, tussah silkworms, natural silkworms and amber silkworms, and different kinds of silkworms eat different things.

1. Silkworm

(1) Mulberry leaves

Mulberry leaves are the favorite food for silkworms. Because mulberry leaves contain a lot of protein, the silk spit out by silkworms will be very tough after eating it. And mulberry leaves contain an extractable, volatile substance that can be easily identified by silkworms, and even if they are far apart, they will crawl to the location where they have the smell.

(2) other leaves

Besides mulberry leaves, silkworms can also eat lettuce leaves, lettuce leaves, elm leaves and so on. These leaves also contain protein, which can provide nutrients for it. However, some silkworm babies do not like to eat these leaves when they are young. Their favorite food is mulberry leaves.

2. Tussah

Tussah silkworms feed on the leaves of Quercus plants of Fagaceae, such as tussah, Mongolian tussah, mistletoe, etc., and can also take the leaves of Artemisia willow, mountain stator, chestnut, maple, pear, apple and other plants.

3. Bombyx mori

The silkworm takes the leaves of tussah of Fagaceae as food, such as Liaodong tussah, Mongolian tussah, tethered tussah, sharp tussah and so on.

4. Amber silkworm

Amber silkworm can eat the leaves of several plants, mainly nanmu leaves, but also eat Rubiaceae, tiger thorn and other evergreen tree leaves, as well as Michelia, camphor and other plants.

Generally speaking, silkworm feed is mostly made of mulberry leaves, multivitamins and compound amino acids after disinfection with sodium hypochlorite, and some businesses will directly extract substances from mulberry leaves to make special feed, which can make silkworm babies grow healthily.