Through selective breeding, the domestic silk moths became less capable of flight and evading predators, eventually relying ...

From these eggs will hatch tiny silkworms, caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori, which will then set to chomping down on mulberry leaves and preparing themselves for the demanding ...

The chapter “Bombyx” is an essay on the domestication of the mulberry silk moth, which rendered it slow, blind and colorless—yet with a cocoon 10 times heavier than before. There are three ...

When the brain completely suppresses the secretion of the suboesophageal ganglion, the silkworm moths lay batches of non-diapausing eggs. When the brain accelerates the secretion of the ...