I thought it was about something else, but it's a story about raising silkworms

The mulberry tree in the garden
has been growing rapidly,
and seeing that
brought back nostalgic memories.

It must have been
several years ago now.
I received many silkworm larvae
from a friend
and raised them.

At that time,
I was going around the neighborhood every day
to collect mulberry leaves for the silkworms to eat,
and I thought, wouldn't it be easier if I had a mulberry tree in the garden?
Alright, let's plant one!
So I picked up some mulberry fruit
and planted it in the garden...
and now,
it has completely grown into
a large tree.

Silkworms are
cute.
(This is my personal opinion.)

They look cute
(or so I think), but
the fact that they cannot survive
unless raised by humans
is
truly
a weak point that
makes them even cuter.

To give you an idea of how
weak they are,
silkworm larvae
have such a weak grip
that even if you don't put them in an insect cage,
and don't put a lid on it,
they can't even climb over the edge of a low box,
so they don't run away.

At this rate,
even if I released them into the garden,
they would fall from the tree
and probably wouldn't survive.

How weak
and
domesticated they are by humans.

Silkworm larvae
only eat mulberry leaves.
They absolutely
will not eat any other leaves.
So,
when you're wondering,
Is this a mulberry leaf?
you can just try giving it to the silkworms.
If they eat it, it's mulberry.
If they don't, it's something else.

And silkworms
eat mulberry leaves
all day long.
Even though they are incredibly weak,
they eat an incredible amount.
Naturally,
you end up needing
a lot of mulberry leaves.
Day after day,
you end up
collecting mulberry leaves.

A while after I started raising silkworms,
I became
a genius at finding mulberry leaves.

Schoolyards,
parks,
green belts,
roadsides,
...
mulberry trees grow
everywhere.
Mulberry trees are weeds.

As a result of
searching for mulberry leaves every day,
I became able to
identify a mulberry tree instantly
with just a glance.

Furthermore,
this genius at finding mulberry trees
discovered a new technique.

It turned out that
even leaves that had been frozen
and then thawedwere fine for the silkworms.

Mulberry leaves are convenient if you freeze them!!
I wanted to tell
every silkworm owner...
but I thought,
there's no demand for this,
so I didn't tell anyone.

Even though it was a great discovery.
People in the world don't understand.
The agony of a genius.

The silkworms'
beautiful cocoons were wonderful, but
the fluffiness of the adults...
ah, this is
something that
is hard to get people to understand.

In our house,
my second son, who loves insects, and I
adored their fluffiness.

I only saw the cute silkworms and
I don't remember it well, but
my third son, who isn't fond of bugs,
probably just pretended
that those fluffy things didn't exist.

This summer too,
the mulberry tree in our yard grew plenty of leaves,
and all over town,
I've started seeing many
magnificent mulberry trees.

At this rate,
no matter
how many silkworms I end up adopting,
I wouldn't have to worry about food...

What kind of story is this, silkworms

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Even if you don't know what the story is about,
if it's a story about bugs,
Konishi Kinoko-san
will happily come to collect it.

Thanks to that,
I can
talk about bugs with peace of mind.

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