What Else Can Silkworms Eat?

Silkworms only eat mulberry leaves or silkworm chow that is made from mulberry leaves. All other foods such as carrots, iceberg lettuce, violet leaves and beetroot leaves are diet variations and can only be offered for a few days until you manage to find a proper food source to offer your silkworms.

What can you feed silkworms?

For food, silkworms only eat mulberry leaves. You can feed them fresh leaves or our prepared mulberry food.

Can silkworms eat spinach?

Silkworm cocoons are normally yellow or white so we used to feed them beetroot leaves to get a pink colour of silk and spinach to get a pale green silk. ... Then the fresh leaves all laid out nicely in the box, silkworms put back in and you would just sit and watch the feeding frenzy, it was such fun.