Worms distinguish male and female methods are to look at the head, look at the body, look at the feet, look at the abdomen and so on.

1, look at the head

The male silkworm head wrinkles have eleven sections, respectively, the head section, tail section and the middle of the nine body sections. Female silkworms have the wrinkles of nine sections, respectively, the head section, tail section and the center of the seven body segments.

2, look at the body

The body of the female silkworm is milky white, while the male silkworms have a few black and gray fine lines.

3, look at the feet

Silkworms have seven pairs of feet, three pairs in front and four pairs in the back, and the male silkworms have hairs on their feet, while the female silkworms do not have hairs on their feet.

4, look at the abdomen

Female silkworms tail eighth and ninth abdominal segments of the ventral surface, there are symmetrical left and right there is a pair of milky-white dots, respectively, known as the reproduction of anterior disk and reproductive disk. Male silkworms in the eighth and ninth abdominal segments of the ventral surface of the junction of the center, there is an oval-shaped dots, called the vesicle.

Silkworm notes

1, breeding temperature

Silkworms are a kind of very afraid of the cold creatures, so generally heard are spring silkworms, so the silkworms should pay attention to the breeding temperature, usually in the April to May each year is the best time to raise silkworms, which is basically in the temperature of about 20 to 25 degrees. Do not need to bother a lot of effort to regulate the temperature of the breeding room, so later through the regulation of the temperature also slowly appeared other time of the year to raise silkworms things.

2, feeding mulberry leaves

When raising silkworms should pay attention to the mulberry leaves are best fresh, up to the home put a night of mulberry leaves can also be used to feed silkworms, but too long mulberry leaves are not fresh, silkworms simply will not eat. The second thing to note is that the mulberry leaves must be cleaned not to have dust, at the same time can not feed the silkworm dew or cleaning is not yet dry mulberry leaves, and finally is sprayed with pesticides soon mulberry leaves can not be picked back to feed silkworms.