The demand for silk has been increasing day by day but the average silk production is not
enough to meet its demand. In this study, we investigated the effect of amino acid …

Tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) is a polyphagous silk
producing forest silkworm of commercial importance in India. Forest dependent people rear …

Sericulture, to put it simply, is the utilization of an insect's method of producing silken
cocoons. It is the activity of raising silkworms on a commercial scale for the production of silk …

The demand for the silk is increasing day by day and the current production of raw silk is not
able to meet the required demands. In order to boost the raw silk production a lot of research …

The mulberry silkworm is a monophagous insect that depends solely on mulberry leaves as
its primary feeding source. Therefore, the quality of mulberry leaves and nutritive …

In India, the different genres of silkworms are reared on mulberry, castor, som, soalu and
arjun leaves. The quality of leaves, number of broods/year, host plants and their varieties …

Sericulture plays a major role in rural employment, poverty alleviation and earning foreign
exchange. A lot of entrepreneurial opportunities are available in various areas of sericulture …

Silkworms fed on supplemented leaves dipped in different lower and higher concentrations
of three secondary metabolites to all the larval instars four times in a day. Lower …

The nutrient composition of leaves directly affects the growth and development of tasar
silkworm larvae and the economic characteristics of cocoons. In the present study, the role of …

Cocoon yield and seed quality of tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury depends
on the food plant variety and its nutritional status, but, farmers prefer to conduct rearings on …