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Silkworms produce silk when they grow from worms, into their adult stage: a moth.
In between these stages, the silkworm spins a single thread of silk around itself, which eventually hardens into a cocoon to protect it during this transformation. This silk is excreted from the salivary glands.
The worm is boiled alive during this stage before the silk is removed. If it were allowed to grow and emerge from the cocoon, it would break the cocoon in the process, making it less valuable for silk production (and useless for high quality garment).
The silk itself can also be loosen by soaking water. which will loosen up the "gum". Labors use a brush to push the cocoon up and down until one of the loose end is attack to the brush.
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How can the silkworm come out of the silk?
A silkworm comes out of the silk cocoon as a moth, if its life is allowed to complete a full cycle.
Where does the material silk fabric come from?
Silk fabric is woven from stands of silk secreted by the silkworm.
What is a Spineret?
Thwe silk inside of a spider or silkworm that will come out
Where does silk for clothes come from?
From the silkworm, an Asian moth larva that excretes the silk. Its Latin name is Bombyx mori.
What is the use of silkworm?
the use of the silkworm is for making silk
What happens to a silkworm after it produces silk and how have traditional silk farming methods led to the deaths of millions of silkworms?
The silkworm in a cocoon is thrown into boiling water to kill the silkworm. The silk is then untangled and processed into a stronger silk thread. If the silkworm is allowed to mature in the cocoon, it will make a hole (damaging the silk) as it emerges from the cocoon.
Which animal produces silk?
Silkworm
Do silkworms produce silk?
yes they produce this cocoon and when they come out of it you can pick it and turn into silk. the Queen's wedding dress was made with English silk from an English silkworm factory.
How do you get the silk from the silk worm silkworm?
silkworm larvae spin the silk yarn around its body. The saliva from its mouth come out and in the air it became the beautiful luster silver yarn harder than steel of its denier
Is silkworm a compound word?
Yes, silkworm (silk+worm) is a compound word.
Silkworm is to silk as bee is to?
honey
Where silk came from?
Silk is the material produced by the silk worm to make its cocoon. The silkworm that makes the best quantity of silk is the mulberry silkworm. Shortly before the silkworm is going to eat its way through the silk of the cocoon, the worm is killed by humans so the cocoon can be unraveled into a single thread.
