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🐛 What is a silkworm?

A silkworm is a small insect larva (baby moth) that makes silk, one of the softest and strongest natural threads in the world.

Silk comes from silkworm cocoons 🧵✨

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🍃 What do silkworms eat?

• Silkworms eat only mulberry leaves
• They eat a lot and grow very fast 😄

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🔄 Life cycle of a silkworm

1️⃣ Egg 🥚

A tiny egg hatches into a baby silkworm

2️⃣ Larva (Silkworm) 🐛

• Eats mulberry leaves
• Grows bigger and bigger

3️⃣ Cocoon 🧶

• The silkworm spins silk from its mouth
• Wraps itself into a cocoon
• This takes 2–3 days

4️⃣ Moth 🦋

• Inside the cocoon, it changes into a moth
• The moth comes out and lays eggs

👉 The cycle starts again!

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🧵 How does silk come from silkworms?

• One cocoon is made of one long silk thread
• The thread can be up to 1 km long!
• Cocoons are carefully unwound to make silk cloth

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🌍 Why are silkworms important?

• Give us natural silk
• Help people earn a living (silk farming = sericulture)
• Silk is used for:
  • Clothes 👗
  • Scarves 🧣
  • Medical stitches 🏥

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🌟 Fun facts for kids

• Silkworms cannot fly
• They are fully domesticated (need humans)
• China first discovered silk over 4,000 years ago
• Silk is strong but feels very soft

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🧠 Easy way to remember

Silkworms eat leaves, spin cocoons, and give us silk

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📌 One-line summary

A silkworm is a tiny insect that makes silk by spinning a cocoon around itself.

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