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Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm. This species of silkmoth is no longer found in the wild as they have been modified through selective ...
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At first, the profits from the seri-culture fad were large, not, however, from the manufacture of silk, but from the sale of silkworm eggs. When the industry was launched, eggs sold at ten dollars an ounce and the worms were good layers. One seri-culturist reported a net profit of US$1,000 an acre made in sixty days from the sale of eggs.
On the island of Java, Cricula silk moths are usually seen on wing around August, with a possible second brood from January to February. Unlike the domesticated Bombyx Mori silkworm which feeds solely on mulberry leaves, the Cricula is a polyphagous.
Silkworms and mulberry leaves placed on trays (Liang Kai's Sericulture c. 13th century) Silkworms were first domesticated in China more than 5,000 years ago. [28] [29] Pupae Silkworm cocoons weighed and sorted (Liang Kai's Sericulture) Silkworm breeding is aimed at the overall improvement of silkworms from a commercial point of view.
Antheraea paphia, known as the South India small tussore, the tasar silkworm and vanya silkworm [2] is a species of moth of the family Saturniidae found in India [3] [4] and Sri Lanka. [5] The bulk of the literature on this species uses a junior synonym, Antheraea mylitta , rather than the correct name, A. paphia . [ 1 ]
Borocera cajani – Malagasy silk worm [24] [25] Cricula trifenestrata – from India to the Philippines, Sulawesi, Java, and Sri Lanka. Eucheira socialis – the Madrone butterfly from central America. It produces large silken nests used by indigenous peoples. Eutachyptera psidii – from central America (also known as Gloveria psidii). [26]
Imports of raw silk, silk yarn, and finished fabrics are all recorded, but the techniques of producing these textiles from the silkworm Bombyx mori remained a closely guarded secret of the Chinese until the Emperor of the East Justinian I (482–565) arranged to have silkworm eggs smuggled out of Central Asia in 553-54, [3] setting the stage ...