Practical Methods of Year-Round Laboratory Rearing of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori (L.) (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae)

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Methods of rearing the silkworm, Bombyx mori (L.), on a commercial scale are well established. In commercial culture, however, silkworms are reared only during the seasons when fresh mulberry leaves, the only suitable food for optimal development of the larvae, are available. The silkworm has been used with great success in many important physiological and biochemical studies, but the main obstacle to its general use as a laboratory insect has been the inability to rear this insect continuously throughout the year. We have been successful in rearing larvae in the laboratory even during the winter by employing the procedures described below.

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