A collaborative research team led by Xi Chen and Chen-Yu Zhang at Nanjing University and Ningjia He at Southwest University has made a significant discovery in a recent publication in Insect Science.

A new study published online on May 7th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, has found the source of silkworms' attraction to mulberry leaves, their primary food source. A jasmine-scented ...

A scene of a Joseon Dynasty queen directly raising silkworms on mulberry leaves will be reenacted in Seocho-gu. Also, city children will feed wriggling silkworms with mulberry leaves and marvel at the ...

Mulberry is a deciduous tree and is an economically important food crop for the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori. The practice of producing valuable silk from silkworms nourished by mulberry leaves ...

ALTHOUGH the larvæ of silkworms eat a few kinds of leaves other than mulberry leaves, for example, fig and lettuce, these do not support normal growth. Proteins and carbohydrates are necessary food ...

Feeding should be started off with 50-day-old shoots harvested at the height of three feet in the cooler hours of the morning. 60-day-old shoots should be fed to fifth stage worms. Silkworm rearing is ...

Biologists have found the source of silkworms' attraction to mulberry leaves, their primary food source. A jasmine-scented chemical emitted in small quantities by the leaves triggers a single, highly ...