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Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm. Silk was believed to have first been produced in China as early as the Neolithic Period.
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silkworms are reared for production of silk
Bombyx mori is the most commonly used variety for this purpose the life cycle of the silk moth consistent of four stages namely
- larva
- pupa
- adult
thousands of eggs deposited by female moths are incubated artificially to shorten the incubation period
larvae hatching out of eggs are released on mulberry plants
larvae are nourished by feeding on mulberry leaves
after feeding for 3-4 days larvae move to branches of mulberry plants
the silk thread is formed from the secretion of their salivary glands
larvae spin this thread around themselves to form a cocoon
the cocoons may be spherical in shape
ten days before the pupa turns into an adults
all the cocoons are transfer into boiling water due to the boiling water the pupa dies in the cocoon and silk fiber becomes loose
then silk thread is formed
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