Cocoons! (part 2)
Just before I went to bed last night (around midnight) I took another look at the silkworms, and again took a short video to show the grubs at work...
It is interesting to compare them with a video taken about four hours before, just here. The silkworms seem to construct a messy support web first, and then make smaller and smaller movements until they are enclosed in a cocoon. At the moment, in this video, the one on the egg carton can still rotate, but soon I expect it will not even be able to do that.
This must seem mundane and boring to some people, I suppose, but to me it is extraordinary.
It is interesting to compare them with a video taken about four hours before, just here. The silkworms seem to construct a messy support web first, and then make smaller and smaller movements until they are enclosed in a cocoon. At the moment, in this video, the one on the egg carton can still rotate, but soon I expect it will not even be able to do that.
This must seem mundane and boring to some people, I suppose, but to me it is extraordinary.
posted by Clare Dudman at 8:06 am
1 Comments:
They are all so busy. I wish I was half that productive at midday let alone midnight!
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