I just didn't expect it to. Last fall, when the silkworms disappeared under their bedding of leaves and spun their coocunes (spell??), I missed them. It was kind of a Charlotte's Web moment. The moths that emerged were beautiful, but just weren't the same worms.

I gathered the tiny eggs and put in them in a jar in the fridge as the directions said. The jar came out in April as soon as the mulberry trees leafed out, but I wasn't expecting them to actually hatch. The calendar was marked so I'd know when to give up and toss them. Last week, on time, to the day, the worms hatched out. They are now almost half an inch long, and there must be about three hundred of them.

Eating me out of house and home! Good thing mulberry trees grow like weeds around here.