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What is the casing spun of silk by catterpilars?

a cocoon.


What is is a Caterpillar?

A caterpillar is the larva stage of a butterfly or moth. A caterpillar hatches from the eggs of a butterfly or a moth. After a given amount of time, it then forms a cocoon, a casing of filament spun from its own silk glands. The caterpillar remains in this cocoon for protection while its body transforms into a butterfly or moth.


Is a caterpillar?

A caterpillar is the larva stage of a butterfly or moth. A caterpillar hatches from the eggs of a butterfly or a moth. After a given amount of time, it then forms a cocoon, a casing of filament spun from its own silk glands. The caterpillar remains in this cocoon for protection while its body transforms into a butterfly or moth.


Is silk living nonliving or never part of a living thing?

Silk is non living, for it does not reproduce, respire, or metabolize. It was once part of a living thing, the silkworm caterpillar, which spun the fibre of which the caterpillar made its cocoon. From this cocoon the silk strand was unspun to give us the silk thread.


How was ancient Chinese clothing made?

Out of the silk of the silk worms was spun into thread that was spun into clothing.


Is silk made from a plant or an animal?

Silk is spun for the cocoon of the silkworm, an insect, before it can turn into a moth. It's vaguely similar to spider web. The silkworm is fed on mulberry leaves.


Is silk from plant?

No. Silk fibre is spun by silkworms as cocoons.


Where does silk really come from?

silk comes from a silk worm, which is harvested and spun to create silk.


Is a silk worm a caterpillar?

no


What is the casting spun of silk by caterpillars?

cocoon


Is there a silk-cotton tree?

No. Silk-cotton is a man-made blend of Silk and Cotton. * Cotton is spun from the flowering seed heads of the cotton plant * Silk is spun from the cocoons of silkworms, which feed on leaves of the mulberry tree


The production of silk?

Silk is spun from the fibres of the cocoon of the mulberry silkworm, the caterpillar of a type of moth. There are other species of bug which produce workable silk, but aren't generally used for textiles, though research continues. Commercial silk is strong, easily dyed and wonderfully reflective of light. So the short answer is, silk originates from a caterpillar's bottom. Did you really want to know that?