Dr. Marcus Atlas, from the Ear Science Institute in Australia, and his team have pioneered a novel treatment for repairing damaged eardrums using silk obtained from silkworm cocoons, like the one pictured above.
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We're going on three weeks since the first of the Free-Ride silkworms made a cocoon.
The Free-Ride offspring have been using the silkworms as a springboard for discussions of math as well as biology.
We offer a couple more video sprog segments with the much enlarged silkworms. It won't be long before they're spinning cocoons (we're guessing -- and the mulberry trees are hoping), so these may be the last of their baby videos:
Silkworm breeding:
Those wee little silkworms which you saw in videos