We had a baby!

If you recall our earlier post about our trip to Mysore, we were given about five silkworm cocoons.   Then one started wiggling and I put it outside.  The others I presumed were dead and we brought them home.  Then one morning Keely asked me what was in her bedside drawer...



A silk worm moth hatched!



It's a female silk worm moth!  Turns out all the cocoons were alive but only one was actually seen. We had one more cocoon broken open but we couldn't find the moth. Two other moths had tried to come out but they didn't make it. 

Our cook used to raise the silk worms and she said they only eat mulberry leaves.  We did a little research on the moth and discovered that they live only to mate and lay eggs then they die shortly after.  It lived a couple of days then died.  As luck would have it, in Owen's book studies that week we learned about the life of a silk worm. I can say we truly had a great homeschool experience.