Their parents went to space, but these silkworms are settling for a secondary school in Hong Kong
Descendants of silkworms taken aboard manned Chinese space mission donated to Tseung Kwan O school that originally suggested the idea
A dozen silkworms whose parents took a spin around the planet have been donated to a Hong Kong secondary school.
On Monday, the astronauts donated the descendants of these “space silkworms” to the school, who will study them to see if the favourable variation will be inherited. Chow Wing-hei, a physics teacher at the school and in charge of the silkworm project, said pupils would take turns to care for the silkworms in the school’s laboratory.
To keep them alive in Hong Kong, the China Manned Space Agency gave the pupils instructions on how to take care of the larvae of space silkworms, including a suitable temperature, humidity and food.