This is what I got on Monday: only females came out of the cocoons that day. I had only one "bachelor" male left, so I had to find them some males that had already separated from their previous mates, and two of the ladies had to wait for several hours (one even ended up with a "third-hand" male because I had already had the same kind of incident earlier with this batch).
Here they are, all seven females of the day already "calling" for males:
![](http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq49/bombyx_mandarina/silkworms/DSC02427-1.jpg)
Scenting the air with pheromone from those glands on both sides of their ovipositors:
![](http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq49/bombyx_mandarina/silkworms/DSC02431.jpg)
A closer view at the glands:
![](http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq49/bombyx_mandarina/silkworms/DSC02435.jpg)
![](http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq49/bombyx_mandarina/silkworms/DSC02448.jpg)
![](http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq49/bombyx_mandarina/silkworms/DSC02432.jpg)
Come on, people, it's only insect courtship behaviour! :P