Silk Worm
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A single encyclopedia page on the silkworm (Bombyx), describing its life cycle from egg to caterpillar, cocoon-spinning over about ten days, and transformation into a moth. It also explains how cocoons are sold and reeled, with several cocoon filaments joined in warm water to make one thread, and notes that the continuous thread is computed at about six English miles long.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1821
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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