Thank you Shaun, I have heard of that as well, how true it I don't know, but will give it a shot and see what happens.

Before I got into T's I thought of getting a chameleon, and I was told that that is the way the store breeds their silk worms. Perhaps you could ask around on one of the reptile forums how the fridge thing works.

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My entire house-hold runs on silkworms, or mulberry leaves :laugh:

You can hatch "fresh" silky eggs after 3.5 months in a ziplock bag in the fridge, or refrigerate your eggs at the end of winter to prolong the dormancy and hatch them whenever, they can last for up to a year like this, but the hatch rate does go down over time.

I breed a multiple hatch gene type but had a bit of a population crash this year so dont have extras to share, ask around the forum, I have given a number of people material. These are nice as a proportion of eggs hatch soon after being laid so you get 4-5 gens a season.