Step Seven: Now You Have a Bunch of Dead Moths and Hundreds of Tiny Eggs!

Great! You have helped your silk worms complete a life cycle! The female moth will start laying eggs almost immediately after the male has finished his role in the reproductive cycle. The eggs start off as a cream color, but over the next week or so darken. That's when you know they are fertilized and ready for storage.

you can store them in a plastic baggy in the door of your refrigerator for several months once they have changed color

- It takes around 10-15 days for the moths to die, this was my least favorite aspect of this process, they don't do anything except crawl around on the inside of the cup but even that slows down as the days tick on.