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  • Thumbnail for Bombyx mori
    Bombyx mori (redirect from Stiff silkworm)
    silk moth. Silkworms are the larvae of silk moths. The silkworm is of particular economic value, being a primary producer of silk. The silkworm's preferred...
    38 KB (4,378 words) - 14:11, 23 November 2024
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    German physician Richard Richter, of Waldenburg. His device was made of silkworm gut and was not widely used. Ernst Gräfenberg, another German physician (after...
    58 KB (6,327 words) - 07:24, 21 November 2024
  • 1909, Richard Richter developed the first intrauterine device made from silkworm gut which was further developed and marketed in Germany by Ernst Gräfenberg...
    45 KB (5,120 words) - 00:42, 15 September 2024
  • travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) 103,181 1  China 38,713 37.5% 2  Italy 13,391 13.0% 3  France...
    33 KB (170 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2024
  • 1909, Richard Richter developed the first intrauterine device made from silkworm gut, which was further developed and marketed in Germany by Ernst Gräfenberg...
    155 KB (15,789 words) - 01:50, 12 December 2024
  • pioneer of abdominal surgery; introducing the detempered needle, the black silkworm gut, and large-handled Spencer Wells forceps. He also introduced the transverse...
    15 KB (1,340 words) - 00:33, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parks' Fly Shop
    When the shop was opened, fly lines were made of silk and leaders of silkworm gut. Flies were tied with fur, feathers, yarn and floss. Today's flies are...
    12 KB (1,223 words) - 13:20, 20 August 2022
  • "flaccidness") is a disease of silkworms, caused by silkworms eating infected or contaminated mulberry leaves. Flacherie infected silkworms look weak and can die...
    2 KB (173 words) - 18:02, 16 October 2024
  • traditionally expressed as X sizes in a scale based on silkworm gut leader material, but nowadays gut has been superseded by a variety of synthetics, mainly...
    22 KB (3,420 words) - 02:40, 4 July 2023
  • where he imported dye stuffs and drugs including liquorice paste, opium, silkworm gut, and valonia. From 1820, Bewley was involved in the revival of the Dublin...
    6 KB (613 words) - 15:27, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Surgical suture
    Sofsilk, Covidien) Description: surgical silk is a protein derived from silkworms that is coated to minimize friction and water absorption. Advantages/disadvantages:...
    35 KB (4,189 words) - 02:39, 9 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Salmon Fly
    Illustrated, &c., &c. Chapter VIII. Miscellaneous. (1) Silkworm Gut (2) Knots (3) Twisting Gut for Loops (4) The Necklace (5) Fly Boxes (6) The Opening...
    10 KB (1,190 words) - 14:48, 9 March 2024
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    are economically important and were domesticated many centuries ago: silkworms for silk and honey bees for honey. Insects are consumed as food in 80%...
    134 KB (12,796 words) - 22:08, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anchovies as food
    populations. A traditional method of processing and preserving anchovies is to gut and salt them in brine, allow them to cure, and then pack them in oil or...
    11 KB (1,174 words) - 10:50, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bacillus thuringiensis
    their gut cannot be affected by the cry protein, and therefore are not affected by Bt. In 1902, B. thuringiensis was first discovered in silkworms by Japanese...
    77 KB (7,834 words) - 04:46, 2 September 2024
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    make them go into a collection area. Prepupae, along with pupae, of eri silkworm (Samia ricini) are consumed as food in India. "Lady beetle larva - prepupa...
    10 KB (1,143 words) - 14:52, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Acarbose
    with a maltose at the reducing terminus. It can be degraded by a number of gut bacteria. Acarbose is cheap and popular in China, but not in the U.S. One...
    24 KB (2,393 words) - 16:12, 9 December 2024
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    Invertebrates including cephalopods, crustaceans, insects—principally bees and silkworms—and bivalve or gastropod molluscs are hunted or farmed for food, fibres...
    124 KB (10,998 words) - 11:10, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Host (biology)
    small number of insects are monophagous, feeding on a single plant. The silkworm larva is one of these, with mulberry leaves being the only food consumed...
    27 KB (2,858 words) - 11:30, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caterpillar
    Some caterpillars are used in industry. The silk industry is based on the silkworm caterpillar. Caterpillar hair can be a cause of human health problems....
    41 KB (4,307 words) - 11:18, 5 September 2024
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