The Youth Services Department has caught the "SILKWORM" reading bug this summer! We've watched the silkworms (the latin name is Bombyx mori) hatch from tiny eggs. We've gathered mulberry leaves for them to eat. Now, nine of them have spun cocoons from delicate strands of silk. Two others are still munching their leaves and waiting for their time to spin.
You can visit these live "Reading Bugs" at the Youth Services Desk and read about them in The Life Cycle of a Silkworm, a juvenile non-fiction book by Ron Fridell and Patricia Walsh.
You can visit these live "Reading Bugs" at the Youth Services Desk and read about them in The Life Cycle of a Silkworm, a juvenile non-fiction book by Ron Fridell and Patricia Walsh.
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