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May 24, 2016 3:02 PM CST
Name: Keith
Long Island, NY (Zone 7a)
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Region: New York Native Plants and Wildflowers Lilies Seed Starter Spiders! Enjoys or suffers hot summers
Does anyone in warmer climates have a huge white mulberry tree?

Would you be willing to order silkworms and place them on the trees leaves to see if silkworms survive?

I had tried this, but the town cut down the last mulberry tree so I can't continue my experiment.

Supposedly silkworms are unable to survive in the wild, but ones I let go survived for weeks on a mulberry tree so I think scientists need to update their data or try to naturalize them.

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