Something that modern kids just don't understand.

hako · Guru

Something that modern kids just don't understand.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Yep ... I kept em - for a while. Then I discovered chickens and hens and roosters ... I much preferred breeding chooks. I had 18 hens and 2 roosters from about age 8 until age 11.

cheers - John

countryroad · Senior Member

They're only little babbies...first know where there's a mulberry tree,

Today they have virtual pets, bakeries, restaurants, farms...why ?!?!

aussietraveller · Guru

I remember as a kid sitting on mum's front verandah for hours trying to unravel the cocoon so I could sell the silk for pocket money

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Yep, I remember them too, they are still around though. Little Bug......er's aren't they Denis.

hako · Guru

Dougwe wrote:
Yep, I remember them too, they are still around though. Little Bug......er's aren't they Denis.

Do you remember that characteristic smell they had Doug?.

They now sell them on Ebay and if you don't have a mulberry tree you can buy special food for them. Maybe they'd make good caravan pets as well.

Happywanderer · The Master

We've got a mulberry tree here. Don't think I've seen those little critters but the birds eat most of the berries anyway.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I think for memory Denis they had a very strong bitter like and sickly like smell, quite strong. Remember though Denis uncle Al is getting a grip on me.

hako · Guru

Doug - it ain't Uncle Al, he only takes from you what happened recently, but that's just going from memory.....I think.
The smell I get is musty, overpowering and stuffy - a bit like in a yachts sail locker that hasn't been opened for years.
Regarding Uncle Al, I wonder if the memory of scent/smell diminishes when he visits.....every time I smell cheap perfume (not often) I'm reminded of the stuff I used to buy from Coles for my Mum in the early 50's for her birthday.

Regards

sandsmere · Guru

Yeah . Haven't seen them for a lot of years .

Feed them different types of leaves to get different coloured silk . Can't remember the colours now .

We used to give them mulberry , lettuce , passionfruit and others too .

GaryKelly · Guru

A few years ago, a "modern kid" from across the road used to show me his shoe box full of mulberry leaves and silk worms on his way to school. So at least some kids are still kids. I remember his pet frog too. He's 16 now so he's into more "mature" things.

woosy · Senior Member

Well that was a trip down memory lane loved my silk worms

we had a wooden frame that we put the silk on to...... also had tad poles

but the children of to-day have i-pads and games on their phones

I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction

cheers

Wizardofoz · Guru

When we ran out of Mulberry leaves we would feed them on rose leaves, the only difference was Mulberry leaves produce yellow silk and rose leaves produce white silk.