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silkworm





from China, is the only fully insect

domesticated there. According to tradition

China, silk was discovered in 2640

years to . C., in the garden of Emperor Huang Ti

.

According to legend, Huang Ti Xi asked his wife to find out what was Lingshi ending mulberry plants. The woman found them
worms produced cocoons
bright white. Accidentally dropping a cocoon in warm water

, Xi Lingshi warned that it could break it down into a fine filament and roll it into a

reel. She had discovered silk, well kept secret that saved

the Chinese during the next 2000 years. Imperial law decreed that

anyone who would reveal

tortured to death.

rearing of silkworms for the production of

silk is called sericulture. Mulberry leaves are the food for his short life and gives them the

starch converted into a strand, which can reach 1 500 m

length in each cocoon. However, stranded 500 meters despite barely

130 milligrams of silk so that every meter, become milligram

prove to be extremely expensive in money and effort.

Silkworms are raised in the spring when the eggs of the season

above, that have been stored in a cool, incubated as soon as

sprout leaves of mulberry trees. For a few weeks of intense activity. The worms eat leaves

continually reaching 10,000 times their weight increase.

The first emperors ordered the spread of this activity and often

issue decrees and orders to protect and to remind the court of their obligations and

attention to sericulture. For many years, the Chinese managed to keep the secret of

silk production through measures which are highly drastic, applied to death penalty

anyone who dared to remove from its territory eggs, worms or butterflies of

species.

When the Roman Emperor Justinian (483 - 565 AD

) had the idea of \u200b\u200bsending monks to preach

Christianity from the east, in the year 550 AD

knew the procedures for raising the

worm and silk production. The monks introduced

mulberry seeds and silkworm eggs in

hollow bamboo canes, thus achieving

circumvent surveillance for this species and bring it to the U.S.. Greece sericulture spread

the countries of Asia and North Africa, and later reached Europe, where Italy, France and Spain, did very well, and who are recognized, to date, the fineness of their silks.