Unfortunately, you land in literal hot water. Your worm brain can’t really process this, but you’ve just crashed into the teacup of legendary Chinese empress Leizu. As you die in the hot tea, your ...

In the mid 1800s, a pervasive disease decimated silkworm agriculture in France. In an effort to save the silk-production industry, the French government persuaded Louis Pasteur, well-respected for ...

Hunan province, a traditional hub for China's sericulture industry with a long history of mulberry cultivation and silkworm farming, is witnessing a revival through intelligent transformation. At an ...

These are the remnants of silkworm larvae, stricken by the white blight and left to wither. Unfulfilled in their transformation, they bear their natural pallor. Ingredients are items that are ...

Hyderabad: The AP State Sericulture Research and Development Institute (APSSRDI) has resumed field trials on transgenic virus-resistant silkworms deve.

ADILABAD: Once a forgotten craft, Tasar silk cultivation is now experiencing a remarkable revival in Mancherial district.

But why is it so expensive? Silk is the product of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori. The caterpillars eat constantly. They're fed mulberry leaves five times a day. After 45 days of munching ...

World's First Commercially Viable Silkworms for Recombinant Spider Silk Production Larger BAM-1 Cocoons pictured on right ...

Loopworm, an insect derived ingredient start-up, said it has secured the EU TRACES certification for its silkworm pupae-derived products for both pet and animal nutrition. With this certification ...

But the caterpillars needed to make it are in danger. So what's happening to the muga silkworm? And why is this silk so expensive? More from So Expensive Unlike any other fabric, muga silk has a ...