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The silkworm (lat. Bombyx mori), or a silk worm - the caterpillar and the butterfly, which play an important economic role in the production of silk. The caterpillar feeds exclusively on the leaves of mulberry (mulberry). A close look - wild silkworm - lives in East Asia in the northern regions of China and southern areas of Primorye Territory in Russia.
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Silkworm - it is the only fully domesticated nesekomoe not occur naturally in the wild state. Females him even "forgotten how to" fly. Adult - thick butterfly with whitish wings span up to 6 cm. The caterpillars of this moth eat only mulberry leaves or mulberry.

Caterpillars of the silkworm cocoons frizz, shells which consist of continuous silk filament length of 300-900 m.

Caterpillars eat the leaves and the non-stop day and night, because of what is fast growing. Change the color of a caterpillar's head on a dark signals the beginning of molting. After the caterpillar will be held four molts, its body becomes slightly yellow and the skin - more dense, indicating that the caterpillar begins to turn into a chrysalis, obvivaya themselves silk thread. After the pupa stage, gnaws butterfly cocoon and comes out. But to reach this stage, silkworms do not give - cocoons held 2-2 5 hours at about 100 ° C, which kills the caterpillar and cocoon unwinding easier.

In Korea, fried silkworms eating. They are a good source of protein, but for the European man unaccustomed to the taste. Dried caterpillars infected by the fungus Beauveria bassiana, used in Chinese traditional medicine.