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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...
    37 KB (4,270 words) - 01:44, 1 June 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...
    57 KB (6,262 words) - 22:03, 29 May 2024
  • 1909, Richard Richter developed the first intrauterine device made from silkworm gut which was further developed and marketed in Germany by Ernst Gräfenberg...
    44 KB (5,083 words) - 05:41, 4 May 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 (15,758 words) - 05:06, 8 June 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) - 02:50, 24 May 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) - 23:14, 21 February 2024
  • "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) - 19:53, 13 March 2023
  • 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
  • traditionally expressed as X sizes in a scale based on silkworm gut leader material, but nowadays gut has been superseded by a variety of synthetics, mainly...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) - 08:07, 29 January 2023
  • 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 (4,196 words) - 19:13, 30 May 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 (12,781 words) - 21:45, 21 May 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 (2,379 words) - 00:37, 21 March 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 (7,828 words) - 12:30, 4 June 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 (1,224 words) - 20:27, 12 May 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 (2,850 words) - 02:23, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Domestication
    years ago in central Asia as a working animal. Among invertebrates, the silkworm and the western honey bee were domesticated over 5,000 years ago for silk...
    76 KB (7,451 words) - 02:55, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prepupa
    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) - 14:30, 18 March 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 (4,299 words) - 06:10, 8 June 2024
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