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My silkworms are currently still in the petry dish that the eggs hatched in. They appear to be getting to a size where I should remove them and put them in something new. I am concerned on how I should take the worms out; my thoughts so far have been to put gloves on and just lift up the food, as the food is all stuck together from the silk and in a circle form from the petry dish, and place it in something bigger and place new food beside it...hopefully the worms will move to the new food and then I can take away the block of old food.

What other ways have people done this?

you can move the whole thing as you described and the worms will migrate to the new, fresh food. For any that are congragated on the lid and sides you can use a fine, soft paintbrush and gently sweep them into the new container.

If you have lots of time you can use fine tweezers but I only do this if they are of a good size and to remove the ones who don't want to leave the webbing.

Good luck,
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
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