Get Inside Silk Moth Cocoon Pictures. Take a look inside a cecropia giant silk moth cocoon. The silkworm is the caterpillar of a moth in lepidoptera, the order of insects that includes moths and butterflies.

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The silk that is made into the cloth is the thread that the silkmoth caterpillar spins to make its cocoon. Inside the cocoons, the silkworms change into a moth and cut their way out of the cocoon. In between these stages, the silkworm spins a single thread of.

These amazingly large, stunningly beautiful moths are found throughout massachusetts, but we rarely see them.

Why is artificial silk fabric much cheaper than the natural silk fabric? These machines unwind the fibers of silk or threads from the cocoon. Why is artificial silk fabric much cheaper than the natural silk fabric? Silk is produced by an insect silkworm.