The series below contains photos of the lifecycle of the silkworm.
Each
photo is around 150K in size, so they may take a while to load over a dialup
connection, but should load fairly quickly on broadband. Click on the
thumbnail or title to see the larger picture. These photos are courtesy of
Manyee Desandies,
a third grade teacher at Alvarado Elementary School, in Union City, California.
Lifecycle pictures 
9. Another view of the silkworm resting before molting
10. Silkworm starting to spin a cocoon
11. Cocoon begins to form
12. Silkworm makes messy poop
13. Spinning the cocoon
14. Finished cocoon
15. Inside the finished cocoon
17. Yet another inside view of the cocoon
18. Moth starting to emerge from the cocoon
19. Moth half out of the cocoon
20. Empty cocoon after the moth has emerged
21. Empty cocoon showing "pee" stain
22. Adult standing on the empty cocoon
23. Newly-emerged adult with crumpled wing
24. Adult moth next to empty cocoon
25. Adult and eggs resting on egg carton
26. Adult with diagram showing body parts
27. Another view of the adult moth
28. Male moth fluttering wings
29. Adult female moth resting
30. Moths mating while sitting on cocoon
31. Closeup of moths mating
32. Female moths with eggs on egg carton
33. Lots of brown eggs that will hatch soon
34. Closeup of eggs laid on egg carton
35. 
36. Loose silk pulled from outside of cocoon
