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  • Thumbnail for Bombyx mori
    Bombyx mori (redirect from Silk worms)
    result of improper hygiene in the chawkie rearing house. This disease develops faster in early instar rearing. Pébrine is a disease caused by a parasitic...
    38 KB (4,357 words) - 01:32, 23 August 2024
  • Sericulture (redirect from Silkworm rearing)
    or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar of the...
    14 KB (1,477 words) - 05:35, 21 July 2024
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    wives and daughters responsible for more domestic tasks of weaving textiles and rearing of silk worms, while men tended to farming in the fields.There were...
    173 KB (21,339 words) - 18:17, 20 August 2024
  • Assam silk denotes the three major types of indigenous wild silks produced in Assam—golden muga, white pat and warm eri silk. The Assam silk industry,...
    21 KB (2,715 words) - 22:15, 29 July 2024
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    silk is obtained from the cocoons of the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity (sericulture). The shimmering appearance of silk...
    82 KB (8,721 words) - 09:43, 29 July 2024
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    Muga silk is a variety of wild silk geographically tagged to the state of Assam in India. The silk is known for its extreme durability and has a natural...
    18 KB (2,340 words) - 16:36, 21 August 2024
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    Eri silk (Khasi: Ryndia) is the product of the domesticated silkworm Samia ricini, found mainly in North East India and some part of China and Japan. It...
    5 KB (651 words) - 07:38, 26 August 2024
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    The production of silk originated in Neolithic China within the Yangshao culture (4th millennium BC). Though it would later reach other places in the...
    65 KB (8,006 words) - 14:42, 20 August 2024
  • the twigs and leaves of the tree upon which it has been feeding, or the straws provided for it by attendants in the worm-rearing establishments: this...
    4 KB (655 words) - 23:05, 14 November 2022
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    woven fabric, silk threads must first be either carded and spun, or extracted as a single intact thread. Commercially reared silkworms of the species Bombyx...
    20 KB (2,207 words) - 15:16, 23 August 2024
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    Saturniidae (redirect from Giant silk moth)
    the largest species of moths in the world. Notable members include the emperor moths, royal moths, and giant silk moths (or wild silk moths). Adults are...
    18 KB (1,988 words) - 00:51, 19 August 2024
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    Animal fiber (section Silk)
    obtained from cocoons made by the larvae of the silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity. Rearing of silks is called sericulture. Degummed fibers from...
    9 KB (1,112 words) - 19:04, 18 January 2024
  • Ginza Motoji (category History of Asian clothing)
    Japan. As of 2007, it has produced a silk named Platinum Boy which is a silk using only the thread of the male silk worm. Platinum Boy silk is considered...
    3 KB (468 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2024
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    Pupa (redirect from Cocoon (silk))
    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pupae. Pupa photos plus species descriptions at Insecta.pro Silk worm life cycle photos (archived 8 November 2012)...
    19 KB (2,111 words) - 02:44, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Welfare of farmed insects
    avoid honey and silk because these require insect farming, even though the insects are not eaten. Silk production involves boiling silk worms alive in their...
    20 KB (2,274 words) - 02:03, 11 January 2024
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    Caddisfly (redirect from Caddis worm)
    Angler, where "cod-worms or caddis" were mentioned as being used as bait. The term cadyss was being used in the fifteenth century for silk or cotton cloth...
    36 KB (3,922 words) - 14:21, 20 August 2024
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    of a "soft loose consistence, not unlike the cocoons of some Bengal Bombyx silk worms, but is much less compact; it is formed between the leaves of the...
    9 KB (1,193 words) - 12:45, 23 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Fall webworm
    Fall webworm (redirect from Web worm)
    leaf litter at the base of the trees. It is dark brown and about 10 mm long. The thin brown cocoon is made of silk with bits of detritus interwoven. The...
    23 KB (2,604 words) - 16:50, 11 May 2024
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    pearls, mother of pearl, Tyrian purple dye, and sea silk. Their shells have also been used as money in some preindustrial societies. A handful of mollusc species...
    96 KB (9,714 words) - 12:34, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orgyia antiqua
    Orgyia antiqua (category Moths of Europe)
    Hook, UK, p. 208. de Worms, C. G. M. (1979). "Lymantriidae". In Heath, J.; Emmet, A. M.; et al. (eds.). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland...
    11 KB (992 words) - 00:21, 18 June 2024
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