Silkworm Marvels: 9 Interesting Silkworm Facts (That Will Blow You Away)

9 Interesting Things About Silkworms

Silkworms, these tiny creatures, captivate us in their own unique way. They not only bring beautiful silk to our world, but also have many interesting behaviors. Here, let's learn 9 interesting things about silkworm babies and feel the charm of these little beings!

The Life of a Silkworm

Trivia: The life of a silkworm is legendary.

From a very small white egg, born less than a grain of rice large black spot, day and night eating mulberry leaves, the middle of the difficult to shed a few layers of skin, and slowly become white and fat almost transparent appearance. Suddenly stopped eating one day, shaking his head, spit out a small smooth but tough and strong silk, wrapped itself in layers, thought to end the rest of his life, but after seven days, broke the silkworm out, born out of two wings, gained the ability to fly! It is only at this time that they seek to mate with each other, complete the gene transfer, and meet the end of life.

Are there any rules for silkworm babies to eat mulberry leaves?

This baby loves to eat mulberry leaves, both large and small.

Trivia: There is a great deal of care in feeding silkworm babies mulberry leaves, the 1st age with the 3rd leaf under the number of the top buds of the mulberry tree, the 2nd age with the 4th leaf under the number of the top buds of the mulberry tree, and the 3rd to 6th age with the 5th to 6th leaf under the number of the top buds of the mulberry tree, the mulberry leaves should not have the heat of the sunlight or be stained by rain and dew and dust when they are fed.

Do silkworms drink water?

Silkworms do not need to drink water, after drinking water can easily cause diarrhea and dehydration death, when feeding mulberry leaves, it is best to pick the mulberry leaves placed in a ventilated place to dry or dry to feed better, so it is less likely to cause silkworms with dew or too wet mulberry leaves to eat caused by diarrhea and death problems.

Do silkworms sleep?

Silkworm sleep is not like human sleep, it is not simply rest, but in its body is intense tissue renewal, it is to shed the old skin at this stage, grow new skin, and it is shedding skin from the head to the tail gradually off, so it lifted the head "sleep" can be conducive to shedding skin.

Where is the head of a baby silkworm?

Trivia: the shape of the silkworm is divided into head, thorax, abdomen three parts, the brown part of the head of the silkworm, small silkworms when the skull was black-brown, with the age of the silkworm gradually become lighter, the big silkworm was light gray-brown.

Do silkworms have eyes?

This baby's eyes are on the side of the mouth, so don't get it wrong.

Trivia: the eyes of the silkworm is long in the mouthparts (that is, the mouth) on the two "bag-like thing", you look at the eyes of the bees, crabs will know it, it is a compound eye oh.

How many pairs of legs does SILKWORM have?

I have 14 legs.

Three pairs on the top and four pairs on the bottom

Trivia: The three pairs of legs on the thorax of the silkworm can hold mulberry leaves to help feed, the four pairs of legs on the abdomen can move the body forward, and the last pair of legs on the abdomen can attach to objects with the abdominal legs to lift the front half of the body for various activities

Do silkworms use their tail or mouth to spit out silk?

Wow, it turns out that silkworms spit out their silk with their

mouth to spit out silk!

Trivia: Silkworms spit silk by the silkworm mouthparts under the spit tube traction, spit out a long liquid filaments filaments encountered in the air that is condensed into a solid silk, silkworms will always spit the silk, will not be broken, it should be the sentence of the silkworms to the death of the silk party.

Silkworm baby cocoon into a "moth"

Trivia: Silkworms cocoon after the pupa into a moth, when the moth to break the cocoon, the tail will secrete pink liquid, this liquid is similar to 84 disinfectant, can melt the silk, silk moths through these liquids will soften the cocoon, from the tail slowly start to explore, until the whole body are drilled out!