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Because all growth takes place as the caterpillar and the moths hatch with sufficient food stores to make their short life and reproduction possible without food.
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Where do silkmoth's live?
They live in forests in North America.
What is the life span of silkmoth?
9-10 days
Do silk worms turn into butterflies?
The silkworm will turn into a silkmoth, not a butterfly.
What do silkworms do?
They make silk...when the spin their cacoon
Why is a cocoon that produces a live silkmoth useless for making silk clothes?
The silk that is made into the cloth is the thread that the silkmoth caterpillar spins to make its cocoon. Thus the cocoons are boiled to kill the pupa and free the silk thread.
What do Luna moth caterpillars eat?
Luna moth caterpillars are mostly known as the silkmoth. They eat many leaves and plants such as walnut and pecan trees.
Are silk worms cold blooded?
Silk worms are cold blooded. They are not really worms. They are the caterpillar of the silkmoth. The only animals that are warm blooded are birds and mammals.
What has the author IVO SAUMAN written?
IVO SAUMAN has written: 'PERIOD PROTEIN IS NECESSARY FOR CIRCADIAN CONTROL OF EGG HATCHING BEHAVIOR IN THE SILKMOTH ANTHERAEA PERHYI'
Why is a cocoon that produce a live silkmoth useless for making silk cloth?
If the moth hatches, it chews its way out of the cocoon, cutting all the silk fibers. for silk production, the caterpillar is killed before it hatches, so the silk strands can be unwound and remain whole.
Why silk obtained by mulberry silk moth most popular?
The Bombyx mori silkmoth's cocoon is the most predictably produced source of silk fibre as a standard. Its size, quality, and tensel strength is predictable given the complete domestsication of this animal.Economically, then, this animal's cocoon is the most popular source of commercial silk.
Where was silkworms first found?
The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of the domesticated silkmoth, Bombyx mori (Latin: "silkworm of the mulberry tree"). It is an important economic insect since it is the producer of silk. A silkworm's preferred food is white mulberry leaves, but it may also eat the leaves of the Osage Orange or the Tree of Heaven. It is entirely dependent on humans for its reproduction and no longer occurs naturally in the wild. Sericulture has been practised for at least 5,000 years in China.It was domesticated from the wild silkmoth Bombyx mandarina which has a range from northern India to northern China, Korea, Japan and far eastern Russia. It derives from Chinese rather than Japanese or Korean stock.[1] The breeding of silkworms cannot have originated before the Neolithic as the tools necessary to make use of the silk thread on a large scale only have become available since then. The domesticated and wild species can still breed and so hybridize together.The full genome of the silkworm was published in 2008 by the International Silkworm Genome Consortium.[2]
Do silkworms live in dirt?
No. The 'silkworm' is the caterpillar of the domesticated silkmoth which feeds on the leaves of the white mulberry plant.Farmers grow the plant and feed the leaves to the silkworms which are kept in flat baskets in their houses.Thus far form living in dirt, silkworms live in baskets and are cared for by silkworm farmers.see related link below for more information.
