Sneak Peek: Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom (Patreon)
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2022-05-16 20:14:00
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2022-05-20 20:19:31
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Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillars of a fuzzy, white moth — thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to 10 city blocks long. Humans have bred these insects into weaving machines that can no longer survive in the wild.
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