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| Silkworms gorging themselves on fresh mulberry leaves |
After hatching the young silkworm weighs only 0,0006g.
It will take 4 weeks of exponential growth until it starts producing its silk cocoon.
To
produce 1 kg of raw silk, 3-4000 silkworms will devour 100 kg of fresh mulberry
leaves.
In comparison, if developing at the same rate, a newborn baby of an average weight of 3.8 kg
would weigh in at an astonishing 19,000 kg at 4 weeks of age!
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| Traditional silkworm feeding in Northern Laos |
