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
Lots of information about silk and silkworms and other silk-producing insects
http://www.wormspit.com/
Video of a silk factory in India showing the various stages of a silkworm's life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8rX5DRusNI
Video of a silk trade village in Vietnam showing how silk is turned into cloth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBz40ZxKJBs
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
Learn about silk farming in China, the life cycle of the silkworm, and other
facets of the silk industry
http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=342&catid=9&subcatid=63
Buy live silkworms and other insects from Canada
http://www.silkworms.ca
http://www.CanadianFeeders.com
A one-minute video of how silk is made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ktNSPFbwQ
Buy live silkworms, silkworm eggs, mulberry leaves, and artificial food from
www.silkwormeggs.net
www.ladysilkworm.com (they also sell silkworm chow to make colored
silkworms and colored silk)
Mulberry tree information
http://www.aurorasilk.com/tutorials_articles_faqs/silkworms/article_mulberry_trees.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
Fun information for kids about common insects found in your yard or playground
https://www.playgroundequipment.com/learning-about-insects-on-the-playground/
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
Lots of information on identifying insects you find around your home.
Thank you to Girl Scout brownie troop #1206 in San Jose, California for finding
this site
https://www.angieslist.com/articles/entomology-home-guide-identifying-house-and-yard-insects.htm
Another site with information about insects you find around your home.
Thank you to Peyton and Anna Langdon for finding this site
https://www.homeadvisor.com/r/guide-to-house-insects/
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