| A major mystery of natural silk manufacture is how spiders and silkworms convert watery solutions into threads without gumming themselves up. |
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| Cultivated silkworms grown in a controlled environment produce the finest silk fibers. |
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| In Thailand, open-air markets sell silkworms, grasshoppers, and water bugs by the pound. |
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| Tussah silk, often called shantung, is made from the cocoons of wild tussah silkworms that eat oak and juniper leaves. |
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| The same level of aid is to be kept as in the previous rearing year, i.e. ECU 133.26 per box of silkworms reared. |
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| Because Reddy has planted a large area of his farm with mulberry, he always has mulberry leaves to feed the silkworms. |
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| Local communities are also learning to breed wild silkworms and market the silk. |
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| Raising of cotton and silkworms has long been widespread in that area, which is also an important producer of kenaf and other fibre crops. |
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| As rearing silkworms requires an abundance of host trees, communities will be motivated to preserve forestland. |
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| Useful insects include silkworms and ladybirds that predate upon aphids. |
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| This second gene is only found in holometabolous insects, Drosophila, and silkworms but not in the more primitive hemimetabolous insects, like grasshoppers or springtails. |
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| Insects such as houseflies, bedbugs, locusts, butterflies, honeybees, silkworms, lac insects etc. are well known to mankind, largely due to their economic importance. |
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| The leaves are used as feed for the silkworms. 370 kg of leaves produce 27 kg of silkworm cocoons. |
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| But let's not forget that silkworms have always been cultivated throughout the whole region. |
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| The production and sale of mulberry leaves and silkworms in the entire region used to be controlled in this building. |
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| When studying ailing silkworms, he made two vital observations. |
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| Mushrooms can be grown in trays indoors, fish can be raised in tanks, trays of silkworms can provide income, and medicinal herbs can be cultivated in containers and processed in the home. |
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| For example, in South Africa mopane worms are eaten by the bushmen, and in China silkworms are considered a delicacy. |
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| Traditionally an important role for women in the economy of rural regions, silk-making encompasses planting mulberry, raising silkworms, unreeling silk, making thread, and designing and weaving fabric. |
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| In the ponds that dot the villages, silkworm waste is fed to fishes, while mud from the ponds fertilizes the mulberry trees, and the leaves in turn feed the silkworms. |
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| The problem is that spiders are not like silkworms, which can survive peacefully in close quarters as long as they are fed a steady supply of mulberry leaves. |
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| But a lone pair of gnarled mulberry trees planted by the Armenians were all Mr Bayram had until the European Union rode to the rescue with a big grant. New mulberry trees were planted, silkworms and looms brought in. |
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| Poultry, bees, and silkworms are also significant. |
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| Aid shall be granted for silkworms falling within subheading 0106 00 90 of the Combined Nomenclature and for silkworm eggs falling within subheading 0511 99 80 reared within the Community. |
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| Other nonvegetarian items include chicken, duck, squab, snails, silkworms, insects, goat, pork, venison, turtle, monitor lizard, etc. |
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| Aquaculture of fish, molluscs, and crustaceans, and the keeping of bees and silkworms is widespread. |
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| Sericulture, the rearing of silkworms, was first adopted by the Chinese during the Shang dynasty. |
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| Most production of silk occurs in the Far East, with a synthetic diet being used to rear the silkworms in Japan. |
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| Genetic modification of domesticated silkworms is used to facilitate the production of more useful types of silk. |
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| Muga, the golden silk, and Eri are produced by silkworms that are native only to Assam. |
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| In addition, mechanical properties of silks from various kinds of silkworms vary widely, which provides more choices for their use in tissue engineering. |
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| Based on the new technique, NIAS has induced precocious metamorphosis of silkworms by excessively producing juvenile hormone esterase, a kind of hormone-degrading enzyme. |
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