Gregory Toomey writes:
You need a mulberry leaves (or rhubarb leaves) for feed. Can be more
difficult to find than silkworms!

Rhubarb? Well, who'd have thought it? But I think the silkworms will dine
out on lettuce, too. It gives a white silk, whereas it's the mulberry
that produces the beautiful golden strands of silk, IIRC. We had some
silkworms when I was a kid. I didn't like boiling them alive, though,
after all the hard work they'd done.
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John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup)