When the silkworm has eaten all the leaves on this mountain, it needs to "move the silkworm", that is, move the silkworm that eats all the leaves to other trees with leaves, otherwise it will "go down the tree", climb to the ground, and will be eaten by rats, snakes, frogs, toads, etc.
How to move it? This is how the division of labor is carried out: a few people here are responsible for taking the silkworms down and putting them in a large flat basket, and one person carries the large flat basket on his head to another hillside, and the people on the other side put the silkworms on a tree with leaves.
When the silkworm receives the influence of external forces, it will spit out gastric juice (silkworm sand) from its mouth to defend itself, which is called "tusha", similar to the bee injecting bee venom into the threatening party when it receives a threat. But this way of self-defense is also harmful to the silkworm itself. Silkworm gastric juice is digestive juice, spitting out too much will weaken their digestion and absorption function, affecting their own immunity. Therefore, when the breeder moves the silkworm, he should carry a small number of branches and leaves, and it is not appropriate to directly grasp the silkworm to minimize the stimulation of the silkworm.
The whole larval stage is about two months, during which the silkworm molts 4 times, commonly known as 4 sleeps and 5 years old.
From the beginning of summer to the freezing, don't think about idleness. After the "broken silkworm", the silkworm shed a layer of skin every week, they called one sleep, two sleeps, three sleeps and old sleepers, after more than forty days to fifty days, the silkworms began to "pour", all the dirty things in the body were empty and ready to spit silk, and they had to stare. It's really not easy to let go of silkworm people.
From mid-July to the end of August, after mating, spawning, shell breaking and three molts (silkworm farmers call it the first sleeper, the second sleeper, and the third sleeper, respectively), at this time, the silkworm baby is about to complete the last molt of its life , the old sleeper.
The ten and a half days before and after the old sleep is the most amazing cycle of silkworm baby food. In July, the tulip forest, which was still leafy, was almost eaten into dry branches by the end of August.
As a result, the whole body and mind of the silkworm farmer in this cycle will be in a state of high tension, in addition to being wary of the invasion of the silkworm babies by alien species, but also in time to find a new "home" for the tulip babies who have exhausted their food (tulip leaves).