These precious silkworms (Daily Life 2019, by Didier Martenet) - Swiss Press Award
Didier Martenet
Après sept jours d'incubation, les vers sortent de leur oeuf. Ils ne mesurent pas plus de 1,5mm.
L'Illustré
Photo / Daily Life
2019
Didier Martenet
Ueli Ramseier, 55, and his wife Bettina raise 30,000 silkworms each year in Hinterkappelen, in the Bernese countryside. At the end of their four-week fattening period, these silkworms, Bombix mori, devour nearly 70 kilos of organic white mulberry leaves per day in a specially designed room heated to 22 degrees Celsius, without excessive light.
