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Silk
Choose one of the terms below and complete the statement
300-600 cocoon hatch moth spiral
baskets cold heat mulberry straw
bodies dies incubators pupa twigs
boiling fragments inner silk
eggs.
Each moth lays somewhere between The life cycle of the silk worm starts with the silk
laying eggs. Once the eggs are laid the silk worm usually The eggs are held in
storage for some time. 5. In the early parts of each spring these eggs are put into 6. After 20 days of incubation these eggs
and tiny silkworms emerge. 7. They are fed fresh
leaves and these tiny worms grow into fat worms. 8. When they stop growing they are transferred to different wooden with
compartments. 9. The compartments are filled with
and 10. After spinning for about 3 days a
_formation is completed around the worm. 11. The worms change into a
that lives inside the cocoon and matures till a mature moth can emerge out of the cocoon. 12. When the worms break the cocoon these
threads are broken into small
and these fragmented threads cannot be used to make silk yarns. 13. The cocoons are either put into hot
__water or the baskets are placed in
chambers till the pupa inside the cocoon dies. 14. Clothes are only covers for our
; our
beauty is of importance and what counts.
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