The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread.
He will wake early to witness the fairy-like resurrection of the silkworm moth (7/24.
Footnote: The silkworm which feeds on the ailanthus has naturalized itself in the United States, but also the promises of its utility have not been realized.
The honey--bee must be ranked next to the silkworm in economical importance.
He withdrew presently, carrying his notebook in his hand, while Brendon, promising to return after breakfast on the following morning, strolled to the silkworm house where the last of the caterpillars had spun its golden shroud.
Only Assunta appeared, though Brendon's eyes had marked Doria and Jenny together in the neighbourhood of the silkworm house as he entered the garden.
That will suit me very well," said the other, and in half an hour he returned to Brendon, found him chatting with Jenny in the dark portal of the silkworm house, and drew him away.
Now soherina was the word for the silkworm moth, but having been assumed as the name of the sovereign it could no longer be applied to the insect, which ever since has been called zany-dandy, "offspring of silk.
In Mirzapur, when the seed of the silkworm is brought into the house, the Kol or Bhuiyar puts it in a place which has been carefully plastered with holy cow-dung to bring good luck.
The Chinese silkworm is now raised to a slight extent in southern California.
Of what riches should we not have been deprived, if the moth of the silkworm had been born a moth, without having been previously a caterpillar!
As the Silkworm is an insect of universal service, and not of singular beauty, we are induced to prefer giving an account of its utility, rather than any elaborate description of its figure or colour.
He found that something was wanting to make his silk like that the silkworm produced.
His fibre silk was as strong, as glossy, and as brilliant as the silkworm silk, and had one advantage over it, that when woven into breadths it did not crease so readily.
It must be made of the very best silkworm gut fibre, round, clear, and unstained.
The hooks should be tied on single, strong silkworm fibre.
A piece of liver on an ungainly hook and twine string is as welcome as the choicest shrimp on one of Harrison's best Sproat hooks on a snell of the finest silkworm fibre.
Illustration: The Farmer's Apiary] At the present time in Europe, Asia, and America there are probably not far from ten million people who depend in large measure upon the product of the silkworm for their livelihood.
The mulberry silkworm can readily be bred in confinement.
Thus, while some success has been attained by carding the cocoons of other species, thereby making a fibre which has a certain utility, the silkworm alone yields material fitted for delicate fabrics.
It is useless to buy silkworm eggs if you have not the wherewithal to feed your infant caterpillars.
Silkworm eggs for study may be obtained from dealers in miscellaneous insects, birds, animals, etc.
You may not think of going into silkworm rearing in a commercial way but only as an interesting bit of nature study.
The mulberry silkworm makes the best silk, although it is by no means the only silk-spinning insect.
As the spring advances and the mulberry shows signs of putting forth its leaves, the silkworm eggs should be spread thinly on sheets of paper on the shelves in a temperature of about fifty-five degrees Fahr.
Perhaps the two opinions may be reconciled, by supposing the silkworm first to moisten and then break the threads of its cocoon.
Copy this little drawing of the silkworm and the mulberry leaf.
Similar organisms he detects as the cause of the silkworm disease and of anthrax in cattle.
As a result of the application of these discoveries, the silkworm disease has been extinguished, or so controlled as to have saved a most important and valuable culture.
The silkworm was first brought to Europe from India in 530, when monks brought it to the Emperor Justinian.
The silkworm is a kind of a caterpillar which feeds on the leaves of the white mulberry-tree, and lays his eggs in a kind of gummy substance on the leaves in the end of June to be hatched out in the following April.
Pasteur and her daughter then constituted themselves veritable silkworm rearers.
Malpighi's treatise on the anatomy of the silkworm (De Bombycibus, London, 1669) and P.
The family is tropical in its distribution, but the common silkworm (Bombyx mori, fig.
Perhaps the silkworm is not exactly in place in a chapter on Novel Live Stock.
The labor of silkworm rearing all comes in one month.
It is at present not much more than an interesting experiment, but there will be money in silkworm culture as soon as a market for the product is developed.
The silkworm has long been known to be subject to a very fatal and infectious disease called the Muscardine.
If it may be generated by Abiogenesis, or by Xenogenesis, within the silkworm or its moth, the extirpation of the disease must depend upon the prevention of the occurrence of the conditions under which this generation takes place.
In Bengal, in addition to these precautions, the women, apparently through fear of sexual pollution, are carefully excluded from the silkworm shed.
In Mirzapur, when the seed of the silkworm is brought to the house, the Kol or Bhuiyar puts it in a place which has been carefully plastered with cowdung to bring good luck.
The Silkworm is about eight weeks in arriving at maturity, during which period it changes its skin four or five times.
During the time of spinning the cocoon the Silkworm decreases in length considerably, and after the work is done it is not half its original length.
China was the first country in which the labors of the Silkworm were availed of, and Aristotle was the first Greek author who mentions it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silkworm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
