Jun 12, 2019 Sabohat Khudayberdiyeva, silkworm farmer Late spring is silkworm season in Uzbekistan’s Ohangaron district, about an hour south of Tashkent. It all starts with a box of caterpillar eggs.

Spiders hold the market for the strongest silks but are too aggressive and territorial to be farmed. The next best alternative involves incorporating spider DNA into silkworms, an expensive and ...

Journal Reference: Wang and Fan et al. Artificial superstrong silkworm silk surpasses natural spider silks. Matter, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2022.08.028 ...

As such, the gene-edited silkworms are an “all-in-one station for spider silk fiber production,” Mi tells NewScientist ’s Alice Klein.

"These fibers exhibited impressive tensile strength (1,299 MPa) and toughness (319 MJ/m 3), surpassing Kevlar's toughness 6-fold," the authors wrote in the paper of the transgenic silkworm-spider ...

In a colorful twist on silk production, scientists in Singapore are having silkworms gobble up dyes that colorize the worms and their silk cocoons (Adv. Mater., DOI: 10.1002/adma.201003860).

Fruit Flies Tricked Into Thinking That Silkworm Moths Are Potential Mates Date: October 30, 2006 Source: University of California - Davis Summary: It's all about "the birds and the bees." And now ...