silkworm
domesticated silk moth
bombyx mori latin

Production of the silkworm was also a very popular activity.

Instead, he made a living for himself by running a silkworm and rice production business.

Why am I still crawling around on the ground like a common silkworm?

We have taken out a Silkworm site that they were manning.

However, these silkworms are very difficult to maintain, and easily die.

The trees were to be used to develop a silkworm industry, which didn't succeed.

It was faster than the Silkworm, but had gotten a later start.

She is the first one to find the failed silkworm harvest.

Silkworms are also an important source of income for many villages.

He had burned his study of the silkworm on her advice.

By December, 2009, the live silkworms had been replaced with models.

Silkworms were first domesticated in China over 5000 years ago.

Probably the smallest animal in the fashion industry is the silkworm.

However, there are different stories of exactly how she discovered that silkworms make silk.

Even today, many production environments are still running the older generation Silkworm models.

However, she has no dialogue, which perhaps explains why Silkworm does not appear in the 1996 film.

Silkworms are raised in the area around the town of Candiroto.

Girls sing as they pick the leaves to feed to silkworms.

He hands out the silkworm eggs, that eventually poison the children.

They may also have practiced an early form of silkworm cultivation.

The experience provides children with the opportunity to witness the life cycle of silkworms.

In addition to spiders, silkworms are another source of silk.

The silkworm is one of the world's most genetically modified animals.

Mulberry leaves are the food of choice for silkworms, so the industry grew quickly.

My silkworms I turned over to the school biology lab and the same for the snakes.

Since male Bombyx Mori cannot fly to the female to mate anymore, they are 100% dependent on humans to reproduce.

There are two main types of the silk: 'mulberry silk' produced by the Bombyx Mori, and 'wild silk' such as Tussah silk.

At a news conference she said her piece, "Bombyx Mori" (the scientific name for the silkworm butterfly), was not influenced by a French film, "La Crie de la Soie" ("Silk's Cry"), which deals with the same incident.

For a few thousand years, people only recognised 2 species, but then several other less important species were discovered, and the genus contains 2 tested hybrid species- a semi-natural cross between a female Bombyx Mori and a male Bombyx Mandarina, and an other hybrid the other way around from the first.