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Silkworms are the larvae of silk moths. The silkworm is of particular economic value, being a primary producer of silk . The silkworm's preferred food are the leaves of white mulberry , though they may eat other species of mulberry, and even leaves of other plants like the Osage orange .
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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This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis.
Advertisement for Corticelli silk. In 1832, Samuel Whitmarsh planted 25 acres (10 ha) of mulberry trees in Florence, Massachusetts in order to raise silkworms.Whitmarsh opened a silk mill in nearby Leeds, Massachusetts and it was briefly run as a communal project by the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, a utopian community of abolitionists who believed that the rights of all ...
Hundreds of the cream-colored caterpillars squiggle across a bed of dark green mulberry leaves - the worm's preferred food - freshly plucked from bushes just outside his laboratory. This is the ...