What do silkworms eat

There are different kinds of silkworms, and they eat different things:

The mulberry silkworm is an oligophagous insect, and in addition to its preference for mulberry leaves, it can also eat lettuce leaves, Tsuge leaves, kozo leaves, elm leaves, duck onions, dandelion and lettuce leaves.

2. Quercus serrata feeds on the leaves of Quercus acutus, Quercus mongolica, Quercus quercus, and other plants in the family Crustacea, and also feeds on the leaves of Artemisia, Santalum, Chestnut, Maple, Pear, Apple, and other plants.

3. Castor silkworm, one of the economic insects that spits silk cocoons to feed on castor silkworm leaves. Castor silkworms to cassava as feed, the production is commonly known as cassava silkworms. In reality, it is the castor silkworm. Castor silkworms to horse mulberry leaves as feed, production is commonly known as horse mulberry silkworms.

5. Tianshi silkworms to the leaves of plants in the genus Quercus of the family Crustacea, such as Liaodong Quercus, Mongolian Quercus, Tethered Leather Quercus, pointed Quercus and other leaves as a diet of spitting cocoon of one of the economic insects.

6. Amber silkworms mainly eat heather leaves, but also eat the leaves of evergreen trees such as Rubiaceae, tiger thorns,

7.? Chestnut silkworms mainly eat leaves of walnut, chestnut, apricot, maple, poplar, rake, Tochigi, camphor, elm and other trees.

Expanded Information:

Silkworms (scientific name: Bombyx mori) are insects of the order Lepidoptera, the main source of raw materials for silk, and occupy an important position in the economic life and cultural history of mankind. Native to China, the silkworm is commonly known as the baby silkworm or niangzai in southern China and Taiwan.

The English name of the silkworm "silkworm" (meaning "silk worm") is because it uses silk to weave cocoons. Cocoon is woven from a 300-900 meters long silk. Now China's cocoon silk production and exports accounted for more than 70% of the world's total, has become a cocoon silk can dominate the world price trend of cocoon silk big country.

Silkworm is a metamorphosis of insects, the most common is the mulberry silkworm, also known as the silkworm, mulberry leaves as food for the spitting cocoon of one of the economic insects. Mulberry silkworms originated in China, its development temperature is 7 ~ 40 ℃, feeding moderate temperature of 20 ~ 30 ℃. Silkworms live on mulberry leaves, and after eating mulberry leaves continuously, their bodies become white, and after a period of time, they begin to shed their skin. When it sheds its skin, it is asleep for about a day, not eating and not moving, which is called "hibernation". After shedding its skin once, it becomes a second instar larva. It is a shedding of skin counted as an increase in the age of one year, the larvae *** to shed skin four times, become a five-year-old larvae, and then eat mulberry leaves for eight days to become mature silkworms, began to spit silk cocoons.

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