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SIlk Worms

Date Submitted: 09/11/2001 05:50:38
Length: 1 pages (250 words)
Views: 138977

The coveted secret of silkworm cultivation began 5000 years ago in China. The production of raw silk by raising silkworms( sericulture) spread to Korea and later to Japan and southern Asia. Sericulture was introduced to the United States in the colonial times, but the climate was not compatible. The Phylum of the silk moth is Arthropoda, the class is Insecta, Lepidoptera. The silkworm is a larva of the silk moth. The are worm-like with a short …

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