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 ...

The arduous task of silkworm cultivation involved keeping the tiny silkworm eggs (about 35,000 of them weigh only an ounce) at the correct temperature. Hatched worms then had to be fed mulberry ...

Silkworm rearing is part of sericulture in which worms are raised for the production of raw silk. Silk worms are native to China and they feed on mulberry leaves. For commercial silkworm farming ...

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 ...

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

In a significant step towards promoting sustainable livelihoods in the remote and tribal regions of Jammu and Kashmir, the ...

In a major boost to this shift, the Maharashtra government has launched a five-year sericulture development plan aimed at ...