| 单词 | silkworm |
| 例句 | In 1869 a French scientist, Leopold Trouvelot, accidentally allowed a few of these moths to escape from his laboratory in Medford, Massachusetts, where he was attempting to cross them with silkworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Under her arm Desdemona also carried her silkworm box containing a few hundred silkworm eggs wrapped in a white cloth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Fourteen hundred years later, the descendants of those first stolen eggs filled my grandmother’s silkworm box on the Giulia. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Three months before I was born, in the aftermath of one of our elaborate Sunday dinners, my grandmother Desdemona Stephanides ordered my brother to get her silkworm box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Luce didn’t care about criminally smitten grandparents or silkworm boxes or serenading clarinets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That morning, they’d had coffee together in a cafe near the harbor after which, like professional spies, they’d picked up their separate suitcases—Desdemona keeping her silkworm box—and had departed in different directions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Because almost everyone is acquainted with the silkworm, and because it is the most useful and noblest of all worms and caterpillars, I have here recorded its transformation.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "Finest silkworms in the whole bazaar," the owner says, motioning at the opposite wall. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "It could be. We could work with animated ink, and experiment with silkworms," I say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Finally, bumping into the leather ottoman and the circular coffee table made of brass, he found my grandparents’ bed and, under it, the silkworm box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Anyone who attempted to smuggle silkworm eggs out of China faced punishment of death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Before an audience of intellectuals, Swammerdam cut away the skin of the silkworm to reveal what appeared to be a tiny model of the future moth inside, from proboscis to antennae to folded wings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z All around her, in a firmament, soft white silkworms clung to bundled mulberry twigs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Desdemona stared down at her silkworm box, her cheeks crimson with the shame and fury she’d been suffering for the last thirty-six hours. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The insect Swammerdam used in his experiments back in 1669 was nothing other than a silkworm. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Fashion Minister draws the queen's attention away from me with a question about silkworm production and winter gowns. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Without silkworms to tend or mulberry trees to pick, without neighbors to gossip with or goats to milk, my grandmother filled her time with food. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She opened the silkworm box in her lap. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Several domestic animals yielded animal fibers—especially wool from sheep, goats, llamas, and alpacas, and silk from silkworms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Other familiar objects and furnishings were still in evidence, Lefty’s rebetika records, the brass coffee table, and, of course, the silkworm box, sitting in the middle of the engraved circular top. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He couldn’t judge silkworm cocoons by feeling or sniffing them as his sister could. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It flowed like smoke, but looked solid, like the strands of a silkworm web. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She went inside the cocoonery to look at her silkworms for the last time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On Europe’s many silk farms, silkworms were raised for their cocoons, which were unraveled onto spools. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Suddenly, with resolve: “I’ll bring my silkworm box. And some eggs. So we can make money.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She looked for other things, too, because her mother also maintained that silkworms reacted to historical atroci-ties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “My mother used to tell me in bad times silkworms no can spin,” she says. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If those policemen at Ellis Island hadn’t taken my silkworms, I could set up a cocoonery in the backyard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Instead she heard her mother, Euphrosyne Stephanides, speaking in this very cocoonery years ago, elucidating the mysteries of silkworms—“To have good silk, you have to be pure,” she used to tell her daughter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The silkworm was the only caterpillar of the time whose metamorphosis was well understood. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Where would I go, wrapped up like a silkworm?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Though the silkworm box reappeared now and then, the spoon was no longer among its treasures. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Under one arm she held the silkworm box, which wasn’t for sale. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That was the other thing she’d brought along: the white cloth enfolding her silkworm eggs was nothing other than Desdemona’s wedding corset. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She kept them warm under electric lightbulbs and sang Greek songs to them, but the silkworms weren’t fooled. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She would begin with a silkworm—the one “worm” no one scorned. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A silkworm cocoon, the pupa stage of Bombyx mori. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Desdemona set the silkworm box on the kitchen table and opened the lid. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Just a few weeks earlier Aunt Xi-wen had complained to the school because some students had climbed into her yard to pick mulberry leaves for their silkworms. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, around the aquamarine fountain, hundreds of stiff, waist-high sacks foamed over with silkworm cocoons. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Taking the silkworm box out of his hands, she turned back into the kitchen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The frontispiece for Maria’s caterpillar book features the first caterpillar she ever studied: the silkworm, perched on its host plant of mulberry leaves. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Desdemona opened her silkworm box and unwrapped the white cloth to check on her eggs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z After carrying her silkworm eggs all the way from Bithynios, Desdemona had been forced to dump them out at Ellis Island. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Peculiarities in the silkworm are known to appear at the corresponding caterpillar or cocoon stage. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Even some insects have been domesticated, notably Eurasia’s honeybee and China’s silkworm moth, kept for honey and silk, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She was in her silkworm cocoonery, high on the slope of Mount Olympus in Asia Minor, when her heart, without warning, missed a beat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The perpetually metamorphosing Baldanders, the silkworm unspoiled by human use, the unicorn and basilisk and gryphon — each of these spell out human desire. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z In "Reeling for the Empire", Kitsune, a dutiful Japanese daughter from some biopunk universe parallel to our own, is turned into a human silkworm. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell – review 2013-03-14T08:00:01Z If McCarthy had known that Merian learned her entomology by rearing silkworms when she was a little girl, he might have made more purposive use of her work. Peter Carey? Doesn't know his leeches. Tom McCarthy? Bad on moths 2010-10-17T20:44:00Z The title of Owen Quine’s final novel is Latin for silkworm, a creature that, we learn in passing, is boiled alive for its silk. ‘The Silkworm,’ by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling Zhou is now in his third year raising silkworms rather than poppies, and says quicker profits have enabled his family - with six children - to upgrade from a bamboo hut. Myanmar hills embrace silkworms over poppies 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z In The Rings of Saturn, he leaps from Suffolk to slavery in the Belgian Congo, while touching on the lugubrious history of herring fishing and the dismal lives of silkworms. WG Sebald: Darkness on the edge of Anglia 2011-01-25T21:31:00Z Advocates note the efficiency with which the likes of silkworms and cockroaches convert plant food to edible body mass, and cite the ease and relatively low environmental impact of farming waxworms or water beetles. My first taste of flesh 2013-03-12T00:00:00Z In the book’s final chapter, he traces the journey of a silkworm moth. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z Sebald is too delicate, too oblique to explicitly link the silkworm to terms such as capitalism, globalization, modernity, totalitarianism, historical trauma, or, finally, genocide. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z The silkworms were grown at home, usually under the care of women who sometimes wore them in a bag against their chests to keep them warm. 'Colors of the Oasis': Vibrant textiles at Seattle Asian Art Museum 2012-03-29T20:32:09Z Insects are everywhere in the book, from the silkworms that Serge’s mother raises to the scarabs that Serge sees in Egypt. Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man?s Bucolic Idyll 2010-09-05T21:34:00Z Building on nature’s genius, these often labor-intensive artifacts use fibers from yaks, sheep, goats, horses, cows and silkworms. Delving Into the History and Beauty of Textiles at the Met 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Seven demonstration farms are also being established to train local residents in rearing silkworms. Special Report: Cambodia Slowly Reweaves Its Silk Industry 2010-09-22T18:00:00Z The team has been collaborating, as they say, with natural organisms like slime molds, monarchs and silkworms, to make extraordinary objects and structures that do all sorts of extraordinary things. Who Is Neri Oxman? 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Among the other materials on view are mouse skeletons, silkworm cocoons, kelp, emu feathers and fast-food chicken bones. Art Review: ?Dead or Alive? at Museum of Arts and Design 2010-04-29T21:13:00Z The history of our world, for Sebald, is like a thread of a thousand yards woven by silkworm. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z Last year the agency financed a $475,000 project to work with the government to create a production center for silkworm eggs. Special Report: Cambodia Slowly Reweaves Its Silk Industry 2010-09-22T18:00:00Z Unlike silkworms, whose cocoons can be nurtured and collected intensively, spiders are territorial and cannibalistic so "cannot be kept like cows in a field". Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z Others are now farming silkworms alongside other crops like watermelons. Myanmar hills embrace silkworms over poppies 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori, is one and a half inches across and one inch lengthways. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z The silkworm is like that isolated light in the abyss of history. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z The more you talk to Vollrath, the more you have the sense of what many cultures over the years have believed – that silks of spiders and silkworms are fundamental, life-bearing materials. Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z An overhead light fixture by Ango Design clusters some 12,000 silkworm cocoons on a wire matrix; the silk filaments diffuse the light beautifully. Art Review: ?Dead or Alive? at Museum of Arts and Design 2010-04-29T21:13:00Z In Laos, farmers still feed the silkworms with mulberry leaves, producing a fine silk. The Woven Art of Laos 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The tale of the silkworm ends with the Nazis, who, “with that peculiar thoroughness,” assume totalizing control over its powers of production. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z The noodles were topped with about a dozen small crickets and mealworms, which customers then dipped into soups flavored with crickets, grasshoppers, or silkworm powder. A dash of bugs with that? Insect-topped noodles sell out in Tokyo 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z But one gathers, by story’s end, that the story of the silkworm is valuable to him less as a matter of historical fact than as a parable: a lens that brings history into focus. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z “Why do silkworms spend their lives dressed in such rags?” The First Fully Illustrated Selection of Pablo Neruda’s Question Poems 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Such exquisite workmanship, however, is but the final step in a process that includes everything from raising silkworms to dyeing threads. ‘Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia’ Review: The Very Fabric of Asian Societies 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The Empress went to a Korean supermarket for this week’s appropriate second prize, a can of boiled silkworm pupae. Style Invitational Week 1435: Who needs Peeps when we have CICADAS? 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z And maybe somewhere along the line Celeste might learn the Spanish word for silkworm, though first I’d need to tell her what a silkworm is. The First Fully Illustrated Selection of Pablo Neruda’s Question Poems 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z "Silk from silkworms is probably the most ancient suture material," Vollrath says. Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z Mulberry silk, from the Bombyx mori silkworm moth’s cocoon, is the most common commercial silk. Silk pillowcases may provide some hair and skin benefits, but they’re not miracle workers 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Researchers have used gene editing to make silkworms that produce fibers tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. News at a glance: China’s S&T clusters, abundant fairy circles, and Arecibo’s next chapter 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Scientists in China have synthesized spider silk from genetically modified silkworms, producing fibers six times tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z People have been cultivating silkworms for thousands of years, unwinding their cocoons to provide material for textiles. Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto opted for a special lunch of cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, washed down with a water bug cider. Yoga enthusiasts master the cat pose at kitten yoga session 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The delicate "sashimi" is the left-over casing of silkworms, and the cider is infused with water bug extract and topped with a whole insect, said to taste like shrimp. Silkworm sashimi, cricket curry on menu as bugs make a comeback in Japan 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Last week in Matter, researchers reported inserting DNA coding for spider fibers in the silkworms. News at a glance: China’s S&T clusters, abundant fairy circles, and Arecibo’s next chapter 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The study, published September 20 in the journal Matter, is the first to successfully produce full-length spider silk proteins using silkworms. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z But the scientists retained some silkworm sequences in their MiSp gene construct, Mi says, in order to ensure the worm’s internal machinery could still work with the spider protein. Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Peasants who specialized in the raising of silkworms in turn sold their cocoons to others, who boiled them to kill the larvae and unreeled them to make silk thread. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The Byzantines, legend has it, acquired silkworms clandestinely in the sixth century when Christian monks visiting China spirited some cocoons away in hollowed-out walking sticks. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The spider fibers are much tougher than ones naturally produced by silkworms, but spiders are difficult to cultivate. News at a glance: China’s S&T clusters, abundant fairy circles, and Arecibo’s next chapter 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Genetically modified silkworms offer a solution to this problem, says Mi, since silkworms coat their own fibers with a similar protective layer. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Now, researchers have used gene editing to make silkworms that can spin spider fibers tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Laborers in Japan’s silk industry were often scalded while boiling silkworm cocoons. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Much of the labor of producing silk fell to women, who grew the mulberry trees needed to feed the silkworms, unraveled the cocoons, and wove the threads into textiles. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But it remains to be seen whether the inserted spider genes will persist when the silkworms are bred. News at a glance: China’s S&T clusters, abundant fairy circles, and Arecibo’s next chapter 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The researchers also needed to perform "localization" modifications on the transgenic spider silk proteins so that they would interact properly with proteins in the silkworm glands, ensuring that the fiber would be spun properly. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z One hundred silkworms can hang around peaceably in a small space, whereas 100 confined spiders will attack one another, until only one or two are left alive. Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Millennia have passed since humans discovered silk and began harvesting it from silkworm cocoons, but scientists are still finding new uses for this remarkable material. Silkworms Spin a Potential Microplastics Substitute 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Made from mulberry silk — from silkworms fed an exclusive mulberry leaf diet — the luxurious-feeling mask is lightweight and breathable, making it great for all seasons. 15 hygge-inspired gifts for that friend who wants to achieve peak coziness 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z “There’s a term in Mandarin: ‘can shi’ — nibbling like a silkworm,” he said. U.S. Pacific fleet commander warns expanding Chinese military could now blockade Taiwan 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z To guide the modifications, the team developed a "minimal basic structure model" of silkworm silk. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z In an attempt to harness the best of both animals, researchers have tried for years to genetically engineer silkworms to make spider fibers. Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z In the video, glowing white silkworms laid against a deep-blue background seem to perform careful choreography to music by Kurt Hoffman. Review: Spanish conquistadors and plastic vomit: That's 'Lifes' at UCLA Hammer Museum 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z For $250, investors would receive 10 acres of land, 100 mulberry trees and a starter kit of silkworm eggs. Perspective | The amazing true story of the woman who gave Pasadena, Md., its name 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Curtis bought 20 acres near Alhambra to raise silkworms and the mulberry trees to feed them. Go ahead and rub L.A.'s winter sunshine in people's faces. We've been doing it forever 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z "Consequently, employing genetically modified silkworms to produce spider silk fiber enables low-cost, large-scale commercialization." Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z “But it does make a flexible fiber when you put it in a silkworm.” Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z In 1843, Gideon Smith, a medical doctor and silkworm cultivator in Baltimore, convinced newspapers to publish his appeals to readers to report emergences of cicadas, which were called locusts at the time. To study swarming cicadas, it takes a crowd of citizen scientists 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Among the topics Smith wrote on extensively was the cultivation of silkworms. Perspective | A Maryland doctor was the first to map all the different cicada broods that pop up 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z One of those, a densovirus, belongs to a class of viruses linked with lethal epidemic disease in shrimp, cockroaches, crickets, moths, crayfish and silkworms. ‘Mussel-bola’ Could Be Spreading. Maybe Now You’ll Pay Attention. 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z In the fifth century, some believe, the Georgian king Vakhtang Gorgasali introduced silk and silkworms to his country, at around the same time that he rebuilt Tbilisi as the capital of eastern Georgia. How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z To commercially produce the spider silk fibers, Mi says he and his colleagues will need to cross-breed their research-grade silkworms with commercial strains that are used for large-scale silk cultivation. Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Below was the thin slip of a silver stream, which created islands of dark soil, supporting orchards, vineyards and reddening mulberries, whose leaves are the food of the silkworm. In Uzbekistan, Coming to Terms With the Country’s Dazzling History 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Women cared for silkworms in China, probably created the Bayeux Tapestry in 11th-century England and today toil by the millions in the garment factories of Bangladesh. Review | The overlooked innovation woven throughout human history 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z To use it, researchers draw liquid silk from the silkworm's glands or dissolve silk fibers in solvents. Wild Silkworms Produce Proteins Primed for Bioprinting 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z As we took the wide expanse of stairs up to the permanent-exhibition hall, I noticed small plaster ornaments on the pillars and arches depicting silkworms in their various life stages. How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Jones notes it could be challenging to protect intellectual property rights when commercializing the spider silk because it would likely entail distributing transgenic silkworm eggs to many farmers. Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Hopkirk writes that it was supposedly Nestorian monks who smuggled silkworm eggs out of China in their staffs. In Uzbekistan, Coming to Terms With the Country’s Dazzling History 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z When we think of silk we often conjure images of insects, such as silkworms, or spiders. Sea silk: the world's most exclusive textile is being auctioned this week 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z "Deem and I were chatting about something else," says Yu, who has sequenced the genomes of humans, rice, silkworms, and date palms. The untold story of the ‘circle of trust’ behind the world’s first gene-edited babies 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In the 1850s, an infectious disease called pébrine threatened to decimate the silkworm population worldwide. How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z It also remains to be seen, he says, whether the inserted genes will persist when the silkworms are bred. Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Russell’s protagonists might dance with the dead, or metamorphose into silkworms, or be possessed by the spirit of a Joshua tree. Portland author Karen Russell explores human frailty in ‘Orange World and Other Stories’ 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z On the third floor of the museum, “Fantasma,” made by a Japanese design team, features naturally glowing silk made from silkworms injected with a green fluorescent protein derived from jellyfish. Museums laud design inspired by, committed to nature 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z She spent her childhood collecting sea mustard, raising silkworms and harvesting ramie plants. Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z She was well-known beyond the region for the silkworm farm she keeps in her backyard. How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Next, Mi wants to see whether he can engineer silkworms to make spider silks that are even stronger and stretchier. Worms with spider genes spin silk tougher than bulletproof Kevlar 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The first pheromone discovered, in the 1950s, was a substance called bombykol that female silkworms emit to attract males. What is love – and is it all in the mind? 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Chang’e-4 and its rover carry instruments that will do a range of experiments while on the lunar surface, as well as a small, climate-controlled environment containing potato and Arabidopsis seeds and silkworm cocoons. Daily briefing: Government shutdown, Brexit angst, and scoping out distant worlds. Welcome to 2019 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z In addition, Chang'e 4 totes a biological experiment, which will track how silkworms, tomatoes and Arabidopsis plants grow and develop on the lunar surface. China Makes Historic 1st Landing on Mysterious Far Side of the Moon 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z A petite, elfin-faced woman, she told me she was descended from a long line of silkworm harvesters. How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z The lander also carries a minuscule biosphere developed by Chinese universities that will study the low-gravity interaction of a number of plants and silkworms. Chinese spacraft successfully lands on moon's far side and sends pictures back home 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The lander will also conduct a biology experiment to see if plant seeds will germinate and silkworm eggs will hatch in the moon’s low gravity. China’s Moon Landing: ‘New Chapter in Humanity’s Exploration of the Moon’ 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z According to the Xinhua news agency, Chang’e-4 is also carrying an intriguing biology experiment to see if plant seeds will germinate and silkworm eggs will hatch in the moon’s low gravity. China’s Chang’e-4 Launches on Mission to the Moon’s Far Side 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z It may also carry plant seeds and silkworm eggs, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon’s far side 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z She was 5, perhaps even younger, when she first began helping her grandmother, learning how to extract silkworm oil from pupae. How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, which is involved in spreading diseases like dengue fever, and the silkworm, Bombyx mori, which is important for silk production, both enter diapause as embryos. How Insects Prepare for Winter 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Peta claims that the mohair, cashmere, down and silk industries "exploit countless goats, geese, ducks, and silkworms, causing these sentient beings unnecessary pain and suffering". Asos to ban silk, cashmere and mohair 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z It may additionally include a number of silkworm eggs. Comsat Launch Bolsters China's Dreams for Landing on the Moon's Far Side 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z These silkworms then produced a red, glowing silk activated by visible green light, like a regular LED light. How scientists are engineering silk to save our bodies 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “The silkworms need to be babied,” she said. How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z On the other hand, curried fish kidneys and fried silkworms with chile may not be your jam — but if you try to meet Jitlada halfway, you need never be bored. Where to have brunch on Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants list 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z "They're insects, I don't think silkworms are going to notice. I think sentient animals definitely, but things like worms - it's not going to be such a big deal is it?" Asos to ban silk, cashmere and mohair 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z In Lansing, Michigan, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories says it needs only to finalize negotiations with silkworm farms in Vietnam to produce mass quantities of a combination spider/silkworm silk, which the U.S. Spinning spider silk into startup gold 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Silk is made by silkworms for their cocoons and by spiders for their webs. How scientists are engineering silk to save our bodies 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “A silkworm would never impede another silkworm from eating — they are not a society like ants. They are very peaceful. Each silkworm is concerned only with its own journey.” How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Spinning Yarns Find out how people made clothes in the early days of America with wool brushing, spinning and cloth-weaving activities and observe silkworm cocoons up close at this child-friendly event. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Going Out Guide for the District, Sept. 14-20, 2017 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z It includes a start-up that uses silkworms as a sustainable source of protein. Ted 2017: The woman who wants China to eat insects - BBC News 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z At the start of the twentieth century, a mysterious epidemic was wiping out prized silkworms across Japan. CRISPR, microbes and more are joining the war against crop killers 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z In a study published recently in the journal Advanced Science, scientists engineered silkworms to spin a light-activated material that disinfects. How scientists are engineering silk to save our bodies 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In apparel, though, the weaker threads of the silkworm have reigned supreme. In the Future, We’ll All Wear Spider Silk 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Later on, I sold silkworms in elementary school. Yuchun Lee of Allego: The Value of a Daily Mistake 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z "They also don't sound like a bug so it doesn't sound as yucky as an insect. As kids we raised silkworms at school." Ted 2017: The woman who wants China to eat insects - BBC News 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z She is said to have distracted herself by binge-eating chocolates, writing poetry and plays about a “repressed” female character who was supposed to represent herself, and by raising and harvesting her own silkworms for sewing. Meet the Only First Lady Before Melania Trump Not to Have Been Born in the U.S. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Then, the scientists genetically engineered silkworms by inserting this protein, called mKate 2, into their DNA. How scientists are engineering silk to save our bodies 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z She played the harp, wrote satirical plays, and raised silkworms. The Closer: Michelle Obama 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Items on her menu include, but are not limited to, red ant eggs, pigeon meat, silkworm pupa and pork with jute leaves. How home chefs are helping uncover India's food secrets - BBC News 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z There is a history of insect eating in China but silkworms are the only insect currently legal in China to use as an ingredient in food. Ted 2017: The woman who wants China to eat insects - BBC News 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Silk is produced from the filament of cocoons made by domesticated silkworms. A Silky Solution to the Problem of Wasted Food? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Recent winning projects include super-hard fibres produced by bionic silkworms and artificial veins inspired by marine sponges. Q&A: Helga Nowotny : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Louisa Adams played the harp, wrote satirical dramas, and raised silkworms. Who Is Melania Trump? 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z They graded mealworms, crickets, honeybee larvae, palm weevils, silkworms and caterpillars against chicken, beef and pork. Should You Be Eating Bugs Instead of Meat? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z "In China, silkworms are by-products of the textile industry so they are affordable and accessible," explained Ms Ho. Ted 2017: The woman who wants China to eat insects - BBC News 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z After a week or so the pangolins are transitioned to a healthy mix of silkworm larvae and ants purchased from a supplier in south Vietnam. Happy Ending for Smuggled Scaly Anteaters 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Muga silk is produced, only in Assam, as the silkworms form their cocoons. University of Leicester research aims to 'save silk trade in India' - BBC News 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Clusters of silkworms munch on piles of locally-grown mulberry leaves in a white marquee in Italy's northern Veneto region. Italy's silkmakers spin a niche to revive dormant industry 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Now, the mulberry trees that fed the silkworms are charred stumps after a fire several years ago, and old cocoons litter the farm’s dilapidated buildings. Ukraine Looks to Privatization to Counter Budget Woes 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z She is backing a range of start-ups, including one that offers protein made from silkworms. Ted 2017: The woman who wants China to eat insects - BBC News 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The pregnant belly of the bug symbolizes security to this former herb hunter turned silkworm farmer in Kunavaram, in the eastern ghat hills of south India. Erratic weather threatens India's poorest silk producers 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Silk evolved independently in many invertebrates, including spiders, honeybees and silkworms. Spiders: Web of intrigue : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z He grew experimental silkworms on the property before becoming a missionary and decamping for the Holy Land. The Near Death, and Revival, of Monticello 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z From midnight to dawn it held me spellbound: monsters, surgeons, sieges, riots, silkworms and Cadillacs, life crammed into page after page. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex gave me the courage to take risks in my writing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z The gypsy moth is native to Europe and was introduced in the United States in Massachusetts in 1869 by a French botanist trying to develop a silkworm industry. Gypsy moth virtually gone in southern New Jersey 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Government data suggests the weather threat to silkworm production is growing. Erratic weather threatens India's poorest silk producers 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Tara Sutherland, a bioengineer at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra, Australia, is looking to silks that are less well known than those from spiders and silkworms. Spiders: Web of intrigue : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z At one stage in the silkworm life cycle, the insect turns into a silkmoth. Art review: ‘Gedankenexperiment’ at American Association for the Advancement of Science Kazuhisa Sekimizu and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo, for example, showed that silkworm larvae and mice provide comparable results regarding the effectiveness of experimental antibiotic therapies. Perspective: The age of the phage 2014-04-30T17:21:04.935Z Originally linked to agriculture and silkworm production, Oshirasama are the focus of a ritual devotion in which women play a central role. Restoring history after the tsunami 2013-10-25T05:18:07Z Silk presenter Steph McGovern had a close encounter with a silkworm as part of her research Silk production helped drive global trade, industrial development and social change. How one town was shaped by silk 2013-10-22T23:01:23Z Scientists there recently unveiled a tiny robot that is driven by a male silkworm moth responding to a female moth’s seductive pheromone aroma. Robots are getting closer to having humanlike abilities and senses 2013-08-05T20:08:00Z Black soldier flies, common housefly larvae, silkworms and yellow mealworms were named as among the most promising species for industrial feed output in a report last month by the FAO, the United Nations food agency. Beetles, housefly larvae open new frontier in animal feed sector 2013-06-19T14:03:14Z Using two new phages to infect the bacterium, we found no adverse effects on the silkworm, but the phages did destroy the bacteria cells. Perspective: The age of the phage 2014-04-30T17:21:04.935Z The silkworm chamber The orangery The wine cellar Which of these novelties did the Mongol emperors introduce to China? China history quiz: Mandarins and murderers 2012-10-20T23:31:48Z He talks instead of going down to the "silkworm chamber". Sima Qian: China's 'grand historian' 2012-10-07T23:01:30Z The structure of the silk—collected from silkworm cocoons—determines how quickly it dissolves, whether at a rate of minutes, days, weeks or longer. Electronics Sensors that Dissolve Could Keep Tabs on the Body from the Inside [Video] 2012-09-27T21:15:00.257Z To this super-thin silicon, they added small amounts of magnesium for electrical conduction—and wrapped everything in silk protein from silkworm cocoons to support the circuit. Silk-Based Electronics Dissolve on Cue for Vanishing Medical Implants 2012-09-27T18:45:06.567Z Our results using silkworm larvae were similar to those using these phages against S. aureus infections in mice. Perspective: The age of the phage 2014-04-30T17:21:04.935Z The material is collected from silkworms, dissolved and then allowed to reform. 'Melt in the body' electronics 2012-09-27T18:00:36Z African Silkworm.—A silkworm before unknown in Europe has been introduced into France from Senegal, and without suffering from change of climate. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The culture of the silkworm is chiefly carried on in the south, and in Croatia-Slavonia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The leaves are bitter, but are sometimes eaten as a salad; they serve as food for silkworms when mulberry leaves are not to be had. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Undyed, it has an intense, sunny yellow color and is described as much lighter and softer than fabric made from the silk of silkworms. London museum displays textiles made from golden silk of millions of spiders 2012-01-30T20:18:06Z Pongee, pon-jē′, n. a soft kind of silk, woven in China from the cocoons of a wild silkworm. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z He personally led his troops on the battlefield and directed the planting of not only potatoes but mulberry trees to feed silkworms. Potsdam Journal: Germany Marks Frederick the Great?s 300th Birthday 2012-01-24T22:00:54Z Kant unwinds the silkworm's web, but Fichte tangles the skein of silk,—at least so it seems to me. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Lilian's canary hung in the sunniest window, Peggy's silkworms lay in a box on the sideboard, and Bobby's white mice reposed in much comfort in a cage on the chimneypiece. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z Mulberry, mul′ber-i, n. the tree the leaves of which form the food of the silkworm: the berry of this tree. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z People keep silkworms to spin that beautiful fabric for them; and M. Agassiz has shown there is no impracticability. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z "Sir, I think you spin the natural functions into silk like the silkworm." The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The maids of honour once sent me some entangled silk from silkworms, which they wanted to spin, and did not rightly know how to manage it; they requested me to arrange it for them. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z And even as the earthworm might aspire—occasion offering—to mate with the silkworm, I will gladly arrange with dear glossy Howard to present myself if possible in his company. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z In the fall I was given a dram of silkworm eggs, and was advised to hatch them and raise silkworms. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z The largest are black, both on the outside and inside, smooth and brilliant like a mirror; the medium-sized are either bluish black or ash-grey; the smallest are of a yellowish colour, somewhat like a silkworm. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z M. Julien has previously translated a Chinese essay on education of silkworms, and the culture of the mulberry. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z Her Majesty the Queen was always gracious to me, and sent me again a number of silkworms that I might amuse myself with feeding them for her, and I was to return what they spun. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z I thought of the silkworm eggs, and took them apart at home and gave them more room. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Experiments of feeding osage orange leaves to silkworms have been successfully made at different times, but nowhere in America has silk culture succeeded. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Cocoon′ery, a place for keeping silkworms when feeding and spinning cocoons. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z At this time her Majesty the Queen sent me some silkworms to beguile the time. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z The white mulberry, Morus alba L., is a native of China, where its leaves are the chief food of the silkworm. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Other fungi in the same way kill the silkworm and the caterpillars of the cabbage butterfly. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z How proud we are! how fond to shew Our clothes, and call them rich and new, When the poor sheep and silkworms wore That very clothing long before! Watt's Songs Against Evil 2011-09-28T02:00:21.297Z The leaves of the white mulberry are the food of silkworms. Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good 2011-08-24T02:00:22.913Z James I. was very anxious to promote the breed of silkworms, and the production of silken fabrics. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z In the beginning the care of the silkworms was held to be specially suitable work for children. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z This was being dragged along the floor by the finger, just as a silkworm might pull after it the tangle of its web. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Special orders were given for mulberry and silkworm culture. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z There are many species of wild silkworms as well, but their cocoons are more difficult to unravel. Observatory: Silk Production Takes a Walk on the Wild Side 2011-05-20T21:10:20Z All round the old city are the mulberry trees and the silkworms; and the farmers want protection for their native industry, and to keep foreign raw silk out of the market. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z In subsequent journeys he visited Formosa and Japan, described the culture of the silkworm and the manufacture of rice paper, and introduced many trees, shrubs and flowers now generally cultivated in Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z That is to say, there are two or three crops of silkworms. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z Until then, however, he is working with reconstituted silkworm silk — boiling the cocoons, extracting the proteins and making novel films and other materials. The Reinvention of Silk 2011-03-07T18:49:39Z When a colony of silkworms had been attacked it was useless to try to do anything with them. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Under this heading may also be mentioned the domesticated insects, the silkworm, the bee and the cantharis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Neither the silkworm nor the mulberry-tree are found in the country. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The chief objects of the Emir’s attention were silkworms, of which he kept immense numbers. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z Silk is a fibrous protein, produced in glands within the spider or silkworm and some insects. The Reinvention of Silk 2011-03-07T18:49:39Z After the severest symptoms had passed off he was given the opportunity to make a crucial test of preventing the silkworm diseases at the villa of the French Prince Imperial. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z The silkworm is most extensively reared in northern Italy, but also in the southern parts of the Rhone valley in France, and to a smaller extent in several other Mediterranean and southern countries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The white mulberry tree is also cultivated, for use in the silkworm culture. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z We have seen the silkworms duly installed in the hoosse, and retire to the music of their active mastication of the leaves, to return again on the morrow and see how things thrive. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z Some scientists are now making an end run around the spider problem and working on reinventing the one silk that is commonly available — that of silkworms. The Reinvention of Silk 2011-03-07T18:49:39Z Pasteur's first investigations in the field of disease concerned a mysterious malady that affected the silkworm and was ruining the silk industry of France. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Flax, hemp and silkworms are also cultivated, and a considerable quantity of poultry kept. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Her name is perpetuated in the name China, the goddess of silkworms, and under this appellation she still receives divine honors. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Today bioengineers are infusing the natural protein fibers spun by silkworms with enzymes and semiconductors. From Silk Cocoon to Medical Miracle (preview) 2011-01-04T16:19:46.730Z The house stood in a grove of mulberries, for to his other pursuits Mr. Ko added that of silkworm raising. The Red Miriok 2011-01-04T03:01:16.847Z Pasteur showed that the failure of the silkworm was not due to one disease, but to two diseases--pebrine and flacherie. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z China is the original home of the silkworm, and the textile arts there reached an advanced stage at a date long before that of any equally skilful work in Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The young women are ideal in beauty and brilliancy; and if it were not for the atmosphere, which is hot enough to hatch silkworms, you would pass the evening in an ecstacy of enjoyment. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z The principal industry is the spinning and weaving of silk, chiefly from tussur or jungle silkworms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Now, only a single decaying factory in the area still processes silk, and the villagers raise silkworms only twice a year, a sharp drop from five times a year in the 1980s. Jili Journal: Silk Craft Fades in Village That Clothed Emperors 2010-10-12T02:52:00Z The products obtained from the silkworms on the estate had, for years, not sufficed to pay for the fresh supplies of eggs obtained from a distance. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z The inhabitants are chiefly Tatars and Armenians, famed for their excellent gardening, and also for silkworm breeding. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Over the past few years, scientists at BGI sequenced the genes of a chicken, a silkworm, a panda, a strain of rice and 4,000-year-old human remains from Greenland. China pushing the envelope on science, and sometimes ethics 2010-06-28T04:00:00Z The silk was engineered by Tufts University, near Boston, from a silkworm cocoon that had been boiled to create a silk solution that can be deposited as a thin film. Bioelectronics: Silky circuits 2010-05-06T10:49:00Z In Neolithic ruins in Zhejiang, archaeologists found a utensil with images of silkworms. Jili Journal: Silk Craft Fades in Village That Clothed Emperors 2010-10-12T02:52:00Z His studies in fermentations and in silkworm diseases had taught him the use of the microscope for such investigations. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Other examples, infesting silkworms, have also long been known as “P�brine-corpuscles,” from the ravaging disease which they produce in those caterpillars in France, in connexion with which Pasteur did such valuable work. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z At some evolutionary point tens of millions of years ago the flies were related to silkworms, so the fact that they spin silk is not too surprising. Material World: Studying Sea Life for a Glue That Mends People 2010-04-12T20:59:00Z Silk spinning and weaving are carried on on antiquated lines, and silkworms are reared in a desultory fashion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Chinese rulers strove so hard to keep silk manufacturing a secret that Western merchants thought silk grew on trees in China, until silkworms were smuggled to Constantinople in hollow walking sticks. Jili Journal: Silk Craft Fades in Village That Clothed Emperors 2010-10-12T02:52:00Z Soon the silkworm plague invaded most of the silk-growing countries of Europe. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z To eat, to clog the stomach, to stupefy the nimble brain, that fine machinery of wheels invisible and pulleys more delicate than the silkworm's dream of a gauzy thread! A Yankee from the West A Novel He slowly drank a few drops of wine from his glass, and then said, calmly: "Forbid the silkworm to spin!" In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II Almonds, figs, capers, mulberry trees and silkworms are sources of considerable profit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Last year, the market price was low, and many villagers chose not to raise silkworms this spring. Jili Journal: Silk Craft Fades in Village That Clothed Emperors 2010-10-12T02:52:00Z In 1864, only the races of silkworms in China and Japan were surely not infected. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z My little girl in the country sent home some silkworms to her sister in a light paper-box. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. August 6, 1887. Pisciculture has been for centuries successfully pursued by the Bohemian peasants, and the attempts recently made for the rearing of silkworms have met with fair success. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" The need of clothing has been pretty nearly abolished by the softness of an ever constant climate, and, we must also admit it, by the absence of silkworms and of textile plants. Underground Man When she spoke to Gud her voice was as musical as the song the silkworms sing. The Book of Gud Fish and game are plentiful, and the silkworm is bred in the warmer districts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Silk was becoming more common in England, and the cultivation of the silkworm was in some measure gaining hold. English Costume In the rearing of silkworms Dr�me ranks high in importance among French departments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" The introduction of the silkworm rendered this trade to a large degree independent of the importation of raw silk from the Orient. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. The mulberry is largely grown for the rearing of silkworms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Cotton is the most important article, and there are ginning factories in the town; the silkworm is largely raised and exported; and the “melons of Cassaba” are sent not only to Smyrna but to Constantinople. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" She has a piece of gossip for her mistress: at Chelsea they are making a satin dress for the Princess of Wales from Chinese silkworm’s silk. English Costume The mulberry-leaves were gathered from the garden to furnish material for the silkworm, who was permitted to wind his cocoon in the deserted chambers of royalty. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 In the districts where the silkworm is raised, and the silk spun and woven, the women play a most important part in this productive industry. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition Near Fiume the orange, lemon, pomegranate, fig and olive bear well; mulberries are planted on many estates for silkworms; and the heather-clad uplands of the central region favour the keeping of bees. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Corn was planted for food, and some of the colonists raised silkworms and made silk. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read Thanks, however, to the Pasteur system, whereby pebrine and other silkworm diseases have been brought under complete control, the industry both here and elsewhere was not only saved but has been considerably developed. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products His father was a farmer of slender resources, and supplemented the small earnings of the farm by the cultivation of silkworms and the manufacture of indigo. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 Sheep and cattle thrive in this region, and an experiment with silkworms gave highly successful results. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Silk cloth is woven from the cocoons made by silkworms. Health Lessons Book 1 As for the silkworms, I suppose they were all summer chewing up a row of mulberry bushes on this job. Cupid's Middleman This represented an average yield of only 3½ okes of dry cocoons, equal to 15½ kilograms of fresh cocoons, per ounce of silkworm eggs. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products I think the following englyn or epigram on a silkworm, which is composed entirely of vowels, will satisfy your correspondent. Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc His wife, known as “the lady of Si-ling,” is credited with the invention of the several manipulations in the rearing of silkworms and the manufacture of silk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Still, there are some who understand that an author cannot write continuously any more than a spider or a silkworm can spin all the time. Threads of Grey and Gold The black mulberry is the one commonly grown in England; the white does better in a warmer clime, and has been largely planted in France and other lands, where the leaves are required for silkworms. The Book of Pears and Plums This compared very unfavourably with the average annual production of fresh cocoons in France and Italy at that time, which was 35 kilograms and 30 kilograms respectively per ounce of silkworm eggs. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products It must be remembered that with silkworms a little practical demonstration from any one who has kept them is worth much more than many pages of hints. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes The glass furnaces fell into disuse, and rats ate the silkworms. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 It is said that some years ago a Harvard professor brought some gypsy-moths to this country in the hope that they could with advantage be crossed with silkworms. Sowing and Reaping Sinful Pride How proud we are, how fond to shew Our clothes, and call them rich and new, When the poor sheep and silkworm wore That very clothing long before! Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 The importation of cheap silkworm eggs of inferior quality; the average price paid by merchants was 2 to 2½ francs per ounce, while the price in France ranged from 9 to 12 francs. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products Few owners of silkworms in this country seem to trouble to do this. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes The first arrival of the silkworm in Europe was in the sixth century, 900 years later. Needlework As Art The poor mother even made up her bed in the next room to theirs … explaining by saying that the silkworms would need attention during the night. Letters from my Windmill And if the ostrich were to strip off their feathers, the silkworm their dresses, the kid their gloves, and the marten demand his furs, what would be their state in the sight of man? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 As a consequence pebrine and flacherie played such havoc that many people were beginning to abandon silkworm rearing and uproot their mulberry trees. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products Silkworms' eggs can be bought of any naturalist, or some one who keeps silkworms will willingly give you some. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes The valley of Lombardy is a silk-producing country and the diet of silkworms is mulberry leaves and the trees also serve as handsome props to the grape vines that hang from tree to tree. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Jan slept in the same room as Cadet, close to the silkworms' building. Letters from my Windmill The influence of fungi upon animals in countries other than European is very little known, except in the case of the species of Torrubia found on insects, and the diseases to which silkworms are subject. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses The burden of freight on this bulky cargo is naturally a heavy handicap and the local silkworm rearers have consequently to be content with very low and inadequate prices for their cocoons. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products Long before other countries learned the art of cultivating silkworms, China was at work weaving fabrics of silk. Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference At last, some days afterward, they saw the girl hanging from the branches of a tree, still wrapped in the horse-hide; and gradually she turned into a silkworm and wove a cocoon. The Chinese Fairy Book A small tree from China, planted for feeding silkworms, but now naturalized throughout. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Next to rice is the silkworm industry, and then barley, wheat, vegetables, soy beans, sweet potatoes, and fruits. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions It has been observed that silkworm eggs locally produced by qualified licensees are decidedly more immune to disease and less affected by adverse atmospheric conditions than imported seed. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products The envious Chô, seeing this, cut all his own silkworms in half, but, alas! they did not come to life again, so he lost a great deal of money, and became more jealous than ever. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales In heaven I have been assigned to the task of watching over the growing of silkworms. The Chinese Fairy Book Var. multicaulis has large leaves, and is considered better for silkworm food than the usual form. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Well, then he had a tame hen and some silkworms. Humpty Dumpty's Little Son Like most boys he went through the usual run of hobbies: silkworms, carpentry, stamp-collecting, photography, parlour railways. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Chô had plenty of good rice and excellent silkworms’ eggs, but he was such a miser that he did not want to lend them. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales And thereupon they built temples to her in her native land, and every year, at the silkworm season, sacrifices are offered to her and her protection is implored. The Chinese Fairy Book There are also many mulberry-trees cultivated for the silkworms, and the ever-present figs and almonds are not wanting. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit We see this with the many domestic races of quadrupeds and birds belonging to different orders, with gold-fish and silkworms, with plants of many kinds, raised in various quarters of the world. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) "It would just suit the First and Second; they're always trading white mice or silkworms with one another." The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life Kané, never suspecting that his brother would play him such a shabby trick, put plenty of mulberry leaves with the eggs, to be food for the silkworms when they should appear. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales The stallion is the sign of the zodiac which rules the springtime, the season when the silkworms are cultivated. The Chinese Fairy Book It is a new sight to me, as well," she added, "that of women picking the mulberry leaves to feed to silkworms. Rafael in Italy A Geographical Reader That we may be clothed, he makes the cotton and the flax to grow out of the soil, the wool upon the sheep, and causes the silkworm to spin its glossy house. Heart Talks Old people and young girls who were the ones employed in rearing silkworms in the Orient received the equivalent of a few cents a day for their labor. Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 The silkworms came to life again, and doubled the number, for now each half was a living worm. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales The popular belief distinguishes three goddesses who protect the silkworm culture in turn. The Chinese Fairy Book Like so many other arts and industries of the country, silkworms are believed to have been introduced from China. The Empire of the East Wet mulberry leaves must not be given them, or they will become sick and die, and there will be an end of the silkworm business from that quarter-ounce of eggs. Makers of Many Things A silkworm from the time it hatches from the egg till it spins its cocoon devours a mass of green forage. Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 Now, one day Kané went to Chô’s house, and begged for the loan of some seed-rice and some silkworms’ eggs, for last season had been unfortunate, and he was in want of both. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales In addition to this goddess, the spouse of Schen Nung, the “Divine Husbandman,” is also worshiped as the goddess of silkworm culture. The Chinese Fairy Book Closely allied with the production of silk is the mulberry-tree, the leaves of which form the staple food of the silkworm. The Empire of the East The way to begin to raise silkworms is first of all to provide something for them to eat. Makers of Many Things In 1612 the adventurers even sent out a stock of silkworms for a test of silk production. The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 Here he related all that had happened to him from the very day when he had behaved so badly about the seed-rice and silkworms’ eggs. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales They discovered the process of rearing the silkworm and they dressed in silk when our forefathers wore clothing made of the skins of animals. Birdseye Views of Far Lands Have you not seen the labors of the silkworm? The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed That sounds like a small order, but it will bring you nine or ten thousand eggs, ready to become sturdy little silkworms if all goes well with them. Makers of Many Things The silkworm, in its many wrappings, knows not it yet shall fly. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I A velvety porter, who was somehow like a silkworm as well as like a wedding handkerchief sachet, opened the door. The Magic World Among other possessions listed were the houses of the planters, their boats—barks, shallops and skiffs being named—and, at George Sandys' plantation across from Jamestown, a house for silkworms had been framed. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Those who insist on the English method of serving it should quote the learned Freeman, who, when confronted with the Continental alternative, complained bitterly that he was not a silkworm! Birds in the Calendar If a boy four feet tall should grow at the silkworm's rate for one month, he would become forty-eight feet tall. Makers of Many Things Female silkworm moths reared in confinement sometimes lay eggs when kept apart from the male, and these have been found to hatch, and give rise to caterpillars, which were not reared to maturity. More Science From an Easy Chair There are great forests of them, all up the hills, covered with silkworms, some munching the leaves so loud that it is like mills at work; and some spinning. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing As the silkworm draws its exquisite stuff from dowdy leaves, so youth finds beauty and mystery in stupid days. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Mulberry-trees also thrive in the valleys, their leaves being used for the feeding of silkworms, the rearing of which forms one of the principal industries of the district. The Huguenots in France Then send to a reliable dealer for a quarter of an ounce of silkworm eggs. Makers of Many Things The silkworm 211 encases its body with a mile or more of gleaming silk, but there its usefulness is ended as far as the silkworm is concerned. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year I cannot meet a single cow That charges for her milk, And though they are not paid a sou, The silkworms still spin silk. The Wallypug in London For like a mother-bird, who's caught The cant of modern woman's thought, My restless tie refused to sit, And restless fingers vainly sought To soothe the silkworm's stubborn toil. Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 So far as regards their intelligence, the silkworms are much below the level of the bees. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization The covering grows thicker and the room for the silkworm grows smaller. Makers of Many Things These gardens originated in an order of James I., who wished to encourage the rearing of silkworms in England. The Strand District The Fascination of London He intended to make fireworks and sell them; he meant to raise silkworms; he prepared to take the contract of clearing the new cemetery grounds of stumps by blasting them out with gunpowder. Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells He sent two monks to Pekin, who alternately preached seriousness and studied sericulture, and who brought away silkworms' eggs concealed in sticks. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 In common with other animals—indeed, we may say, with all organic life—the silkworms vary perceptibly in different parts of the world to which they may be taken. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization The silkworm may have seemed greedy, but he did not eat one leaf too much for the task that lies before him. Makers of Many Things This and many another lesson did the father of Marie and Pierre have to learn before he could successfully raise mulberry trees—to say nothing of silkworms. The Story of Silk The spider and the silkworm had yielded their secret to these indefatigable searchers into nature's mysteries. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch The caterpillar produces silk, though it is not equal to that of the better known silkworm. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting The so-called silkworms, like the bees, originated in Asia, and have long been in the care of man. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Pasteur announced more than six years ago the propagation of the vibrios of the silkworm disease called flacherie, both by fission and by spores. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 "I declare if we are not as quiet as though the silkworms were here already," said he. The Story of Silk From before the twenty-third century b.c., the care of the silkworm, and the spinning and weaving of the thread from the cocoon, has been the particular labor of the women. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Various attempts have been made to raise silkworms in the United States. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades With the silkworms, variations can be more readily brought about; for, as is the case with other animals, the individuals can be paired. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization The cycle of the silkworm's life is briefly this: From the fertile egg comes the little worm, which grows, and casts its skin. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 This depends not alone on the species of silkworm raised, but also on the care that has been given it. The Story of Silk A ceremony like that with the plough is performed by the emperor over the silkworms and mulberry-trees, whose leaves are the food of the worm. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics At a certain period of its existence the silkworm gives off a secretion of jelly-like substance. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Now although every mother of children does not have the care of silkworms, yet she has the care of beings who are in some respects equally susceptible. The Young Man's Guide Pasteur dwells upon the ease with which an island like Corsica might be absolutely isolated from the silkworm epidemic. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 He has always been so interested in the silkworms. The Story of Silk Upwelling from his shadowy springs Sweet waters shake a trembling sound, There flit the hoot-owl's silent wings, There hath his web the silkworm wound. Songs of Childhood The root of the name is bombyx, the Latin for silkworm. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades The annual output of silk, all of which is spun by the silkworm, is worth millions of dollars. An Elementary Study of Insects Pasteur, for example, found that pébrine had been known for an indefinite time as a disease among silkworms. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Here in Pont-de-Saint-Michel almost every one is employed in the Gaspard filature, or in the throwing mills; and if not, the people raise silkworms. The Story of Silk And have we not the silkworm in plenty, and cotton-plants, and sugar-cane, and many spices, and the great food-supply of our people—rice, besides minerals which make nations rich, such as iron and gold? The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar There are other varieties of silkworms that are not capable of being cultivated and are called wild silkworms. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Hast heard The men of Licio tell how he was first To bring them aid when all their silkworms died And silence struck the looms that gave them food? Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet This new disease is characterised by the black spots which cover the silkworms; hence the name pébrine, first applied to the plague by M. de Quatrefages, and adopted by Pasteur. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 There are distempers that ravage the silkworms; bad weather that wrecks the mulberry foliage; a thousand possible accidents which at any moment may sweep away your income. The Story of Silk I saw the silkworms that made the silk and saw them gather the cocoons and spin the silk. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 The principal species is the mulberry silkworm which produces most of the silk in commerce. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades The animal the great two-horned silkworm discovered by Sir Harry Johnston, before whose furious charges, according to the report of natives, even the elephant will give way. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 For fifteen years a plague had raged among the silkworms of France. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Now that their father and Uncle Jacques had gone to the war most of the care of the silkworms would fall to them. The Story of Silk Those sort of fellows, in my opinion, are only fit to keep tame rabbits and silkworms.” Ernest Bracebridge School Days After the cocoon has been formed the silkworm passes from the form of a caterpillar into a moth which cuts an opening through the cocoon and flies away. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades It was of a dull, slatey colour, and belonged to the silkworm family of Bombycidae. On the Banks of the Amazon Pasteur at this time had never seen a silkworm, and he urged his inexperience in reply to his friend. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Let us tell Mother to take the silkworm eggs out of the dark room and put them where it is light. The Story of Silk You said it in a passion on purpose to sting him, and he’s as thin-skinned as a silkworm. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco A soft, unbleached, washable silk, woven from the cocoons of the wild silkworm, which feeds on the leaves of the scrub oak. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades In one desk silkworms began as eggs upon a sheet of paper, ate, and grew themselves into fine, fat, transparent straw-coloured larvae which afterwards spun cocoons. Glyn Severn's Schooldays The silkworm had been previously attacked by muscardine, a disease proved by Bassi to be caused by a vegetable parasite. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 "Father once told me he had known of a lot of silkworms that stopped eating and died because a sudden noise frightened them," observed Pierre. The Story of Silk As the silkworm transmutes the mulberry leaf into satin, so you should transmute your knowledge into practical wisdom. Pushing to the Front A stock of silkworm gut, horsehair and silk ligatures, the latter prepared and sterilised for me by Miss Taylor, the Theatre Sister at St. Thomas's Hospital. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre It is cultivated more for ornament and shade than for feeding silkworms; though it is put to this use in some parts, especially in cold climates, where the other species does not thrive. The Boy Hunters The course of discovery as regards the epidemic is this: In 1849 Guérin Méneville noticed in the blood of silkworms vibratory corpuscles, which he supposed from their motions to be endowed with independent life. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Your father once lost an entire crop of silkworms because of a severe thunder-storm. The Story of Silk There were books, papers, hooks, balls, worms, stale sandwiches, photographs, toffee, birds’ eggs, keys, money, knives, cherry stones, silkworms, marbles, pencils, handkerchiefs, tarts, gum, sleeve links, and walnut shells. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life The substance which exists in the caterpillar of the silkworm moth, and which can be drawn out into fine shreds of silk, is very similar to thep. Wild Nature Won By Kindness In Spain, Italy, and Persia, they prefer the leaves of the black for feeding the silkworm. The Boy Hunters I am no angler myself; but inquiring of those that are, what they supposed that part of their tackle to be made of?—they replied, “Of the intestines of a silkworm.” The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 He couldn't take the chance of losing his silkworms, and I don't blame him, either. The Story of Silk The fish-hooks and baits, the birds’ eggs that were not broken, the silkworms, the photographs, pencils, knives, and other articles of use or ornament, he sorted carefully, and then put back into the desk. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life It requires 2,300 silkworms to produce one pound of silk. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference They are dark green and rough, and for feeding the silkworm quite useless where the white mulberry grows. The Boy Hunters To give an idea of the great increase of growth in insects, let us take the case of the silkworm. Chatterbox, 1905. "I do hope our silkworms won't get frightened and die, or else have something make them stop spinning." The Story of Silk Sericulture, formerly an important industry, has declined owing to disease among the silkworms, but efforts are being made to revive it with promise of success. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" It contains in every part a milky juice, which will coagulate into a sort of Indian rubber, and this has been thought to give tenacity to the filament spun by the silkworm. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The white mulberry, it is supposed, first came from China, where it is still found growing wild; and the Chinese first cultivated it for feeding silkworms as early as 2700 years before the Christian era. The Boy Hunters This silk is used by caterpillars for various purposes, and varies much in quality: that spun by silkworm caterpillars is much prized by man. Chatterbox, 1905. And the young silkworms must have small and tender ones. The Story of Silk For several years past, I have made some experiments in the rearing of the silkworms, giving the result of my experience in the first year in Vol. Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Howbeit, one generation of men, as Hume remarks, does not go off the stage at once, and another succeed, like silkworms and butterflies. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry The silkworm dies at his task of making himself a cocoon, so to evolve in a winged joy, but falls a victim of man's cupidity. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Had a mammoth silkworm woven his airy filaments within its interior, the effect could scarcely have been more grotesque. Flood Tide Such scientific treatment of silkworms takes both knowledge and experience. The Story of Silk Bombyx mori, or the ordinary mulberry silkworm, is, of course, the best to rear, if you can obtain healthy eggs. Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Fine as is the filament produced by the silkworm, that produced by the spider is still more attenuated. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 We have also places for breed and generation of those kinds of worms and flies which are of special use; such as are with you your silkworms and bees. Ideal Commonwealths That is, it is shut up in a kind of case that it has spun for itself, like the cocoon of the silkworm or the caterpillar. The Child's Day "I wish the silkworms did not eat so much," grumbled Marie. The Story of Silk These remarks apply, in general, to the treatment of all silkworms, except Bombyx mori. Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. The fisherman's knot is used by fishermen to tie silkworm gut together. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Examine any other earthly object, like a silkworm, bee or other small creature. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence It was a fine cocoon, thick and with blunt ends, very like a silkworm's cocoon, firm to the touch and of a tawny colour. Social Life in the Insect World But a silkworm does all its growing in a very short space of time, and in proportion to its size grows faster than almost any other living thing. The Story of Silk Mr. Warren also exhibited samples of native and foreign cocoons, and of raw and thrown silk, together with the common Cecropia and Bombyx Cynthia, species of silkworms which feed upon oak leaves. Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. They obtained some long hollow walking sticks, which they packed full of silkworms' eggs, and thus imported the producers of the raw material. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Dewdrop.—When the right time comes for the hatching of silkworms, they should be kept in the sun. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. They were thunderstruck at my audacity when I seized it in my fingers as they would the familiar silkworm. Social Life in the Insect World We must take every precaution to keep the silk-house clean and well-ventilated, for silkworms demand spotless surroundings as well as plenty of fresh air. The Story of Silk Indeed, I believe that M. Trouvelot is of opinion that Polyphemus may fairly enter into competition with Bombyx mori, the ordinary mulberry silkworm. Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. But in the reign of Justinian, two monks who had been travelling in the Orient, brought to the emperor, as curiosities, some silkworms and cocoons. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance The buttonbush has the ash-colored cocoon of the giant silkworm, made out of a rolled leaf, the petiole of which is fastened to the branch with silk. Some Winter Days in Iowa The world is to the meditative man what the mulberry plant is to the silkworm. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country "Aren't silkworms very likely to get sick anyway, Mother?" queried Pierre. The Story of Silk When suppuration occurs in connection with buried sutures of unabsorbable materials, such as silk, silkworm gut, or silver wire, it is apt to persist till the foreign material is cast off or removed. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. When the basket-makers reach the gate, they find the daughter of the house, who, having just fed her silkworms, is now twisting a skein. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence Whether this immunity is to be attributed to the climate, or the nature of the leaf upon which the silkworm feeds, it is impossible to say, but it is none the less a veritable fact. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels Give the mood, and the essay, from the first sentence to the last, grows around it as the cocoon grows around the silkworm. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Hence many of them gave up silk-raising entirely and the price both of silkworms and of silk became enormous. The Story of Silk On a plain rush hurdle a silkworm lay When a proud young princess came that way. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries But they make good the time lost, only now and then their fingers meet as they put the silkworms into the bag. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence Even so do butterflies come out of silkworms, an instance where M. Swammerdam has shown that there is nothing but development. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil The silkworm produces its smooth, regular ball of silk without effort, and in like manner Mozart could turn out Allegros, Rondos, sets of variations à discretion. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development Now when silkworms are ill they are quickly isolated, just as people are who have contagious diseases. The Story of Silk The haughty daughter of a lordly king Threw a sidelong glance at the humble thing, Little thinking she walked in pride In the winding sheet where the silkworm died. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries The girls sing merrily in the lovely sunshine as they gather the silkworms, Mirèio among them. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence There are many Obos, which is a fruit nearly the size and taste of a peach, on whose leaves may be reared silkworms, as is done in other parts. The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. Man has, at most, some twenty or thirty such, including cows, sheep, horses, donkeys, camels, llamas, alpacas, reindeer, dogs, cats, canaries, pigs, fowl, ducks, geese, turkeys, and silkworms. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science "We haven't hatched any of our silkworms yet, Father," answered Marie, "but everything is prepared, and we shall begin in a day or two; perhaps to-morrow if there is warm sun." The Story of Silk But so far we have not reached a stage where we can altogether dispense with the services of the silkworm. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries Indeed the larger silkworm moths do not and cannot feed, and their value is only that of a device for keeping the race established. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope On the other hand, those caterpillars known as 'silkworms' make a dense cocoon of pure silk, consisting of two layers, the outer of coarse and the inner of fine threads. The Life-Story of Insects Even Mr. Herbert Spencer, the prophet of individualism, has never taken exception to our gross disregard of the proprietary rights of bees in their honey, or of silkworms in their cocoons. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science There is an ancient story that the Empress See-ling-shee hatched and raised silkworms in her garden, afterward winding the silken thread from the cocoons and weaving a delicate gauzy tissue from the fibres. The Story of Silk They are not the same substance as silkworm silk and ought not to be—though they sometimes are—sold as such. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries The silkworm, when ready to make its cocoon, seeks a suitable support. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 His work was in the market, and he had no more to do with it, that they could see, than the silkworm with the lining of one of their coats. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Among our insect friends the leading place belongs either to the honey bee or the silkworm. Outdoor Sports and Games He even tells how the silkworms produced this material which, by the way, he calls bombykia; but nowhere does he tell in what place the industry had its origin. The Story of Silk The disease of silkworms, known as Pebrine, was spreading with ruinous rapidity in France. The Fertility of the Unfit In southern countries the reproduction of silkworms is a vast industry to which great attention is given, and which receives important and regular aid from the government. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 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. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 35, July 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls "You would have to buy ground for the silkworms, and set out the mulberries, and then a swarm of horrid insects might happen along and devour the plants before the worms began spinning." Polly Oliver's Problem Well, at any rate, the monks were sent back to China with orders to procure some of the silkworm's eggs. The Story of Silk The ovum itself can become the site of infection; this, which was first discovered by Pasteur in the eggs of silkworms, takes place not infrequently in the infection of insects with protozoa. Disease and Its Causes Eyebrows like sleeping silkworms shaded his phoenix eyes, which were a scarlet red. Myths and Legends of China He found that something was wanting to make his silk like that the silkworm produced. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 35, July 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Silk growing and weaving had been the result of the silkworm cocoons sent over by James the First, who offered bounties of money and tobacco for spun and woven silk according to weight. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future Then came a revolution in China, and for the next six hundred years Rome and Greece had the principal supply of silkworms and the monopoly of the industry. The Story of Silk The Mulberry of Upper Assam occurs likewise, and the leaves supply with food a species of silkworm. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries This Rain-god also assumes the form of a silkworm chrysalis in another account. Myths and Legends of China She taught others to weave, and soon hundreds of people were making cloth from the threads of the silkworm. The Child's World Third Reader "Weren't you telling me something about a place in China where they had a whole grove filled with sacred silkworms, Aunt Daphne?" Kit of Greenacre Farm The greatest danger, aside from some epidemic spreading and destroying your crop, lies in feeding your silkworms wrongly. The Story of Silk The natives keep silkworms, which they feed on the Chykwar or Assam morus, which they cultivate. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries A silkworm establishment was pointed out to us in the distance, but we did not go over it, as we had seen many before, and it is not the best season of the year. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months And whenever the emperor walked with her in the garden, they liked to watch the silkworms spinning threads for the good of their people. The Child's World Third Reader This is especially the case in the season of spring silkworms, for the cold is severe at the beginning and the air becomes excessively damp as the rainy season sets in. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Moist leaves will make silkworms ill sooner than almost anything else. The Story of Silk At the village of Kidding there are silkworms fed. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries I have been like the silkworm, which builds itself a house in which it must die. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes "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. The Red Redmaynes This is not so much for the benefit of the farmer and his family as for the welfare of their silkworms. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People "I didn't know there was more than one kind of silkworm!" exclaimed Marie in surprise. The Story of Silk The Bishop of Nismes has lately issued a pastoral letter, commanding prayers to be offered up for the cessation of the malady affecting the silkworms in his own and the surrounding dioceses. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland The silkworm of India and China may have spun the threads of your dress, the Frenchman may have woven it; the hardy mariner braved the seas to bring it here. The Jericho Road Mr. Redmayne's silkworms were descended, through countless generations, from those historic eggs stolen by Nestorian pilgrims from China, and carried thence secretly in hollow canes to Constantinople some thirteen hundred years before. The Red Redmaynes A fly harmful to silkworms winters in the soil, but it cannot find a resting-place in concrete. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People "When do you suppose our silkworms will first change their skins, Josef?" asked Pierre. The Story of Silk Let us go to the other side of the mountain near the wilderness to-day, and hunt rice, wheat, corn, and wild silkworms. The Talking Beasts Here are the silkworm moth and its cocoon as kept in Siberia; the ghost moth of our hop grounds; the hawk moth, the death's head moth, and the large Brazilian owl moth. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits From its chrysalis state, the silkworm but becomes a moth, that very quickly expires. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Then there are brought into service all sorts of crop-feeding materials, such as straw, grass, compost, silkworm waste, fish waste, and of course the manure produced by such stock as is kept. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People But now, you see, it is different, because they are our own silkworms and of course we want to learn all we can about them. The Story of Silk |
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