Through selective breeding, the domestic silk moths became less capable of flight and evading predators, eventually relying ...

But why is it so expensive? Silk is the product of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori. The caterpillars eat constantly. They're fed mulberry leaves five times a day. After 45 days of munching ...

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 was further able to identify mulberry silk (Bombyx mori) as the material used, demonstrating that sericulture (silk farming) involved the cultivation of mulberry trees to feed silkworms ...

The chapter “Bombyx” is an essay on the domestication of the mulberry silk moth, which rendered it slow, blind and colorless—yet with a cocoon 10 times heavier than before. There are three ...

IN silkworms, it has been found that tyrosine is used not only for biosynthesis of the silk proteins 1, but also to form melanin pigments, but little is known of its origin. The present work was ...