#silkworm — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@theperpetuallycurious8/115878675199803776

🧵 Did you know a single silk shirt can represent the patient work of around 1,000 silkworms?

Each caterpillar spends days enclosing itself in a cocoon that is later unspooled and combined with many others to form fabric that seems to hold light within its threads.

If that image stays with you, follow the thread back to the full journey in the original article: https://TPC8.short.gy/sJNS1j5J

#Silk #Silkworm #Nature #Science #Textiles #TPC8

🪱SILKWORMS & LOST INFORMATION💻

Daiō-in's head, Ishiko Shōkyū (石河正久), has brought the temple great publicity in recent years.

Renowned worldwide for his research into sericulture, Ishiko bred a new type of silkworm that create peanut shaped cocoons with very flat thread.

#Myoshinji #silkworm #sericulture #Daioin #Kyoto #Japan

This #NHK video on farming #silkworm for food really surprised me, never heard about it before.

#Fibroin (silk protein) is extracted from silk cocoon fibres: just a small amount of it gives food a softer, moister texture, and helps to bring out the flavour of other ingredients. (relevant part starts at 9:00, but it is worth watching the whole video, only 13 min long)

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/3025102/

#AlternativeProtein #AltProtein #protein #diet #FutureOfFood #innovation #ClimateAction #ClimateChange

The differing olfactory worlds of female and male silk #moths https://phys.org/news/2024-01-differing-olfactory-worlds-female-male.html paper by Elisa Schuh et al.: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2578

"they discovered that the antenna, which is specialized in males to detect female #pheromones, is particularly sensitive to the scent of #silkworm excrement in females. Components of this scent turned out to be a deterrent for mated females, probably allowing them to avoid competition for their own offspring when laying eggs."