Thursday, 4 June 2009

The start of silk

Photo by: SOVANN PHILONG


Written by Sovann Philong
Thursday, 04 June 2009

Baby silkworms hatch at a farm in Phnom Vao this week. Once hatched, the larvae are kept in trays with mulberry leaves that they eat for about a month before spinning their cocoons. Silkworms have been domesticated to the point where they can no longer exist in the wild.

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