Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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Unfortunately no.

Each moth does not produce eggs. Only those of the female persuasion. I’m pretty sure that females don’t count the number of eggs they produce and stop at 500. The number varies between 200 and 500.

But KBLB has discovered that you can’t just interbreed all of the silkworms you have grown. Some of them are better than others. Note the language from the most recent PR:

“Under the guidance of Dr. Nirmal Kumar and through a meticulous, statistically-based selective breeding protocol, the parental strains for the BAM-1 hybrid were further optimized during the production cycle.”

‘Selective breeding’ means not all of the silkworms were bred. We should all understand by now that maintaining and growing a breeding pool is far more complex than simply allowing all silkworms to make and keeping all of their progeny.

It’s hard to have patience when we have waited so long for success. Assuming the viability of the BAM-1 production model, KBLB can ramp up production over time. But they are not going from 0 metric tons to 1000 metric tons per month overnight, at least not if they want to maintain the quality of their silk.

I’d rather have KBLB go through a controlled growth that maintains quality than an uncontrolled growth that sacrifices quality. Wouldn’t you?