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unusual facts about silkworm



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Adolf Butenandt

Butenandt is credited with the discovery and naming of the silkworm moth pheromone Bombykol in 1959.

Bombyx Hybrid

Instead, no hybrids are used for silk, (unlike a normal Silkworm of the Bombyx mori species), but for research.

Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli

He was interested in various domains of natural history, and identified the fungus responsible for the white muscardine disease of silkworms, Beauveria bassiana.

Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau

She introduced silkworm (Bombyx mori) breeding, kept bees, and sold oranges from her own residence.

Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio

He recorded his first non-Silkworm album in 1995 in Seattle with members of other bands such as Jessamine, Citizens' Utilities, Engine Kid, and the Deflowers assisting.

Les Mages

Several mills whose buildings still bear witness to the sericulture past activity (silkworm farming).

Lonomia

They are commonly known as Giant Silkworm Moth, a name also used for a wide range of other Saturniid moths.

Phrao District

David K. Wyatt and Aroonrut Wichienkeeo, Chinag Mai: Silkworm Books, 1998, ISBN 978-974-7100-62-4

Pogona

Crickets are the most popular insects fed to bearded dragons, but they can also be fed other insects such as black soldier fly larvae, locusts, superworms, waxworms, silkworms, butterworms, grasshoppers, hornworms, and even some varieties of roaches.

Sakata, Yamagata

Silk, 2007, a film set in the 19th century, about a silkworm merchant and his love life, based on the novel by Alessandro Baricco

Samia cynthia

The Ailanthus silkmoth (Samia cynthia) is a saturniid moth, used to produce silk fabric but not as domesticated as the silkworm, Bombyx mori.

Uzi fly

The Uzi fly (Exorista sorbillans) is a species of bristly fly in the family Tachinidae that is a parasitoid of caterpillars and is a problem for silkworm rearing in the tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia.


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