Question

number of silkworms needed to make 1 kg of silk​

Answer 1

Answer:

500 numbers of silk worms are needed to make 1 kg of silk.

Explanation:

500 numbers of silk worms are needed to make 1 kg of silk.

Silk worms are very smaller in size hence the yield of silk from that silk worm so nearly 500 silkworms forming nearly 80 kg of coccons are required.

Answer 2

ANSWER:

The one kg of raw silk can be produced from around 500 silkworms, 80Kg of cocoons and 200 Kg of mulberry leaves.

EXPLANATION:

The raw silk of single cocoon is 'unfolded', which contains the raw thread of about '300 to 900' meters in length. They form a lustrous and fine silk fibres about 10 micrometres in diameter. It takes 1700 to 2000 cocoons to make one silk dress. 15 silkworms are  generally sacrificed for producing 1 gram of silk yarn.