From these eggs will hatch tiny silkworms, caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori, which will then set to chomping down on mulberry leaves and preparing themselves for the demanding ...

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FUKUOKA--Kyushu University has used silkworms to develop a protein that could become a candidate vaccine for COVID-19, officials said. The university, known as a world-class institution for ...

Here's how craftspeople across the southern part of Asia extract and process the delicate fibers from silkworms, lotus flowers, and muga cocoons. We begin with these wiggly little silkworms in Nam ...

Phan Thi Thuan's family have been making silk for generations, growing and harvesting the threads from silkworms themselves to create luxury garments. But making lotus silk is different.

She thought of a trick, she hid everything that was needed - the silk worms, the mulberry seeds, everything - in her royal headdress. She knew that her father's guards would not dare to search her ...

While many citizens have been figuratively cocooning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Empress Masako has literally been engaged in the practice, helping to raise silkworms at the Imperial Palace in ...