If you can soak the additional cost you could raise silkworms. I am not sure if they can thrive in high humidity but I don't think they mind humidity in the 60 to 70's....



Other than the rather limited types of food you can feed the silkworms (ie mulberry leaves or prepared silkworm food)they are easy to keep. They don't tend to move around lots so if you put in alot of egg cartons or those paper coffee holders, it makes it easy to pick up the trays, gently shake out the poo back into the container and put them aside. Pick out any stray silkworms from teh bottom of the container then you can just dump out all the poo and shed skins. Then put everything back into the container (except the poo of course).



Silkworms have no to little smell and what smell they do have is pretty much the same smell as their food which is rather mild. I don't yet have personal experience on how easy it is to breed silkworms but plan to do so soon, just need to buy a large enough supply of worms first (hopefully next month at the reptile show i am going to). For more information about silkworms, try the following site:



www.mulberryfarms.com

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