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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.
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.
Silk is the secretion from the spinnerets of the silk moth larva (it's cocoon).
Silkworms, which emerge from their cocoons as moths, spin cocoons that are the raw material for the fibre humans use as silk. Cocoons are harvested from domesticated silkworms by heating the cocoon to kill the animal, then the silk cocoon is unraveled. Once the moth has emerged -- in wild silkworms for example, the cocoon's silk can be harvested, but not in one continuous length. As a moth, there is no connection with the now-discarded cocoon.
Silk fibers are obtained from the cocoon of silk larvae, larvae of the silk moth, which are spun from the cocoon into one, long thread.
You could call it a cocoon.
The cocoon.
it is produced by using the liquid in a silk worms mouth.
Commercial silk is typically harvested from the silk moth. Yup, that's about it. In ancient China silk was harvested from the tiny cocoons of the silk moth by dropping them into a pot of boiling water.
with the cocoon
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.
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.