Sericulture - Silk & Silkworm types

 SERICULTURE 

Sericulture is the mass rearing of silkworm for production of silk.

 

 

SILK 

• Natural protein fibre composed of fibroin and sericin.
• Produced by certain larva(lepidopterous) to form coccons.
• 95% produced from mulberry silkworm 

TYPES OF SILKWORM:

1.Mulberry silkworm-bombyx mori 

2.Non Mulberry silkworm 

           Eri silkworm (Samia ricini)

           Tasar silkworm (Antheraea mylitta)

            Muga silkworm (Antheraea assama)