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Silkworm - this is the only fully domesticated nesekomoe not occur naturally in the wild state. Females him even "forgotten how to" fly. Imago - with whitish thick butterfly wings span up to 6 cm. Caterpillars of this moth eat only mulberry leaves, or mulberry.





Caterpillars of the silkworm cocoons frizz, shell which consists of a continuous silk filament length of 300-900 m.





Caterpillars eat leaves without stopping day and night, because of what is growing rapidly. Change the color of the caterpillar's head on a dark signals the beginning of molting. After the caterpillar will be held four molting, her body becomes slightly yellow and the skin - more dense, indicating that the caterpillar begins to turn into a chrysalis, encircling themselves silk thread. Passing pupal stage, a butterfly cocoon and gnaws out. But to reach this stage, silkworms do not give - cocoons hold 2-2 5 hours at about 100 ° C, which kills the caterpillar and cocoon unwinding easier.





In Korea, fried silkworms eat. They are a good source of protein, but for the European man not accustomed to the taste. Dried caterpillars infected with the fungus Beauveria bassiana, used in Chinese traditional medicine.