How do silk 🐛spin cocoons to make silk

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Extracting raw silk starts by cultivating the silkworms on mulberry leaves. Once the worms start pupating in theircocoons, these are dissolved in boiling water in order for individual long fibres to be extracted and fed into thespinning reel.

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Question 9

Reeling of silk is
(a) a process of making silk reels
(b) the spinning of silk fibres
(c) the weaving of silk cloth
(d) the process of taking silk threads from a cocoon

Q. Why are cocoons boiled during the production of silk?

Q. Hot water helps in separating out the silk fibres from cocoons.

Q. Analyse the following statements and choose the correct option.
1. The rearing of silkworms to obtain silk is called sericulture.
2. The larvae feed on mulberry leaves to produce rough silk.
3. The larvae shed skin four times before it starts spinning cocoons.
4. The Larvae start spinning cocoons after eating mulberry leaves for 2 to 3 days.
5. Eggs are brought and incubated under controlled conditions.

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