Silk Worms

By raising silkworms and unwinding there cocoons it is know as silk culture or subculture. It takes and average of 25-28 days for a silkworm to get old enough to make silk. Woman farmers then pick up the worm with a piece of straw, the worm will begin to start to make its cocoon this it the silk materials. Silkworms look like a big larvae with a horn on its rear end. Silkworms natural food plant called the Mulberry tree. Silkworms have been domesticated so that they can no longer live in nature by themselves. All wild populations are extinct, some older relatives live in Asia. In the eleventh century European traders stole mulberry tree seeds from the Chinese, soon the Europeans had silkworms at the mulberry trees that they have planted.