
Links
A teacher in Pennsylvania, USA provides
information for teachers and students
http://www.thewildones.org/Curric/silkworm.html
Rural craft cooperatives in Thailand and Cambodia
have excellent reference pages on silkworms, complete with lots of pictures,
including pictures of mulberry leaves and all phases of silk raising. For
example:
http://www.cambodia.org/clubs/khemara/cover.htm
http://www.silkofsiam.com/
Lots of information about silk and silkworms and other silk-producing insects
http://www.wormspit.com/
Silkworm-raising information in Spanish
http://insected.arizona.edu/espanol/sedainfo.htm
http://www.gusanosdeseda.com.ar/paginas/sericultura.asp
Artificial silkworm food and eggs can be ordered from http://www.mulberryfarms.com in reasonable quantities. It comes as a powder to which you add water. It works well with certain varieties of silkworm - but they will get bigger faster if they eat leaves.
Silkworm eggs, books and other equipment are available from various sources.
Everything you ever wanted to know about mulberry trees can be found at
http://newcrop.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Morus_alba.html
Buy live silkworms and other insects from Canada
http://www.silkworms.ca
http://www.CanadianFeeders.com
Information about silkmoths and silkworms http://www-staff.mcs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/bomb/mori.html
A third-grade class at Alvarado Elementary school
in Union City, California has
taken many wonderful pictures of silkworms growing in their classroom.
http://www.suekayton.com/silkworms/lifecycle.htm
Lao Sericulture Company, a small village-run silk products company in
Laos.
http://www.mulberries.org
Details on silk and silkworms, including scientific data
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/kusnaman-djeimy-2004-07-29/HTML/chapter2.html
Buy worms, food, and cocoons containing live silkworm pupas from
http://www.silkwormshop.com
For scientific researchers looking for specific
subvarieties of silkworms
www.gene.affrc.go.jp/animal/index_e.html
General information on butterflies can be found at
http://snapper.bio.umass.edu/kunkel/Moths/strecker_silk.html
Links to other moth, butterfly, and nature sites
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