None of the silkworm growing sites that I've come across contained the step where one dips the eggs in hot water, but that's what my grandmother did, probably to hasten the hatching. As the eggs matured, they turned clear and became little gray rings that reminded me of the Chinese full-stop. The worms must have been consuming the yolk or something as they developed. It was weird to see them moving around through the translucent "shell" during the last couple of days before they hatched.
Does sound like a pretty cool thing to watch/see.
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