Silk Worms facts
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A company has successfully geneticaly modified silk worms to spin actual spider silk. It will be commercially available soon and called "Monster Silk".
how silkworms make silk?
Thanks to amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot America has the issue with Gypsy moths, he brought them over from his native France and tried to get them to breed with silk worms, they escaped and now damage trees ever year. After they escaped Trouvelot gave up on entomology.
Silkworms eat?
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what silkworms eat?
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Mopane hosts mopane worms (larvae of emperor moth) and silkworms. Mopane worm is important source of nutrients and proteins for the South African tribes. Silkworm encapsulates itself in the cocoon made of silk that is used in the manufacture of cloths among the local tribes.
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Silk worms are boiled alive in the silk-making process
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Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who in the 1860's attempted to cross breed gypsy moths and silk worms in his back yard, causing a veracious invasive species that can not be controlled.
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a company is now able to mass produce spider silk. They inserted the genes of the spider into a species of silkworm, bred the worms and is now a product called, "MonsterSilk".
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Silk worms are boiled during silk production.
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In 1865 the silk industry was in danger since two parasitic diseases were killing the silk worms.
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Spider Silk is tougher than Kevlar, but because the spiders are cannibalistic researchers genetically modified silk worms to produce the stronger spider silk in hopes of supplying the United States Army
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Silk is made from the boiled cocoons of Silk Worms.
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Silk is the only natural fiber found in filament form. This due in part to the fact that it is made by the silk worm, an insect with specificly modified salivary glands capable of producing fibroin, an insoluble, high glycine protein
