Rearing Silkworms


 
 
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Rearing Silkworms

Rearing Silkworms:

Female silk moth lays hundred of eggs at a time. The eggs are stored carefully on strips of paper and sold to silkworm farmers. The farmers keep eggs under hygienic condition. They warm them to a suitable temperature for the larvae to hatch from egg. The larvae are kept in clean bamboo trays along with freshly chopped mulberry leaves. After 25 to 30 days, silkworms stop eating and start spinning the cocoons.

Processing Silk:

The cocoons are collected and boiled in water to kill the insect inside them. The resulting fibre is known as raw silk.

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Question : 1

The general process that takes place at a sheep shearing shed is ________________

Right Option : A
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Question : 2

Which of the following are correct ?

(a) Female silk moth lays thousand of eggs at a time.

(b) The farmers keep eggs under hygienic condition. 

(c) Reeling silk  fibres are spun into silk threads are woven into silk cloth by weavers.

Right Option : B
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Question : 3

Reeling of silk is ________________________ .

Right Option : C
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