| As rearing silkworms requires an abundance of host trees, communities will be motivated to preserve forestland. |
| The leaves are used as feed for the silkworms. 370 kg of leaves produce 27 kg of silkworm cocoons. |
| Cultivated silkworms grown in a controlled environment produce the finest silk fibers. |
| A major mystery of natural silk manufacture is how spiders and silkworms convert watery solutions into threads without gumming themselves up. |
| 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. |
| Tussah silk, often called shantung, is made from the cocoons of wild tussah silkworms that eat oak and juniper leaves. |
