Feeding should be started off with 50-day-old shoots harvested at the height of three feet in the cooler hours of the morning. 60-day-old shoots should be fed to fifth stage worms. Thank you for ...

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

From these eggs will hatch tiny silkworms, caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori, which will then set to chomping down on mulberry leaves and preparing themselves for the demanding ...

It all starts in fields like this one, where the worms' food is harvested. Silkworms only eat mulberry leaves. They contain vitamins, amino acids, and enough moisture that the worms never need to ...

Mulberry plays an important role in boosting the body's immunity, moisturizing the eyes, and protecting them from dryness. It ...

In Yizhou District of Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sci-tech enabled modern sericulture and ...

But making lotus silk is different. Silk usually comes from silkworms. They're kept on wide trays and need to be fed almost 24 hours a day with mulberry leaves. The caterpillars delicately spin ...

Hatched worms then had to be fed mulberry leaves around the clock. Bottega Della Cornice Collection, Nodolibri Archives (Como, Italy) Silkworms were first brought from Asia to Byzantium around A.D ...

On May 29, Masako fed mulberry leaves to silkworms kept at the Momijiyama Imperial Cocoonery, to which she commutes from the Akasaka Imperial Residence. Mention of the imperial family's ...