What kind of food do tiger silkworms eat?

Tiger silkworm is a kind of silkworm, also known as tiger spot silkworm, zebra silkworm, tiger silkworm, etc., named for the black and white stripes on the silkworm body in the larval stage, has an attack tendency, will attack silkworm (ant silkworm), the cocoon is common white and yellow, occasionally green, moth stage and ordinary white silkworm are not much different, let's take a look at what tiger silkworm eats!

What do tiger silkworms eat?

Tiger silkworm is an oligophagous insect. It likes to eat Moraceae plants in larva stage, especially mulberry leaves. It is generally fed with leaves grafted with mulberry leaves. Tiger silkworm has an attack tendency, will attack silkworm (ant silkworm), some tiger silkworm will also eat silkworm, so remember not to silkworm (ant silkworm) and tiger silkworm raised together, generally should silkworm (ant silkworm) and tiger silkworm raised separately.

THE GROWTH CYCLE OF TIGER SILKWORM

Tiger silkworm hatches only once a year. In the Yangtze River Basin, eggs hatch naturally in the first and middle of April. After about 23~28 days of artificial rearing, larvae cocoon and pupate. After 9~15 days, adults emerge from cocoons and die after mating and laying eggs. The eggs are hatched in the spring of the following year after three seasons: summer, autumn and winter. A generation lasts about 40 days from egg hatching to death. When larvae grow to the extreme, they are about 10000 times the size of ant silkworm (just hatched). Female silkworm can reach more than 7 cm long, and male silkworm is slightly smaller.

What are the types of silkworms?

1, silkworm: mulberry leaves for food, cocoon can be reeling silk, silk is a precious textile raw materials, mainly used for weaving silk, in the military, electricity and other aspects also have a wide range of uses, pupae, moths and silkworm dung can also be comprehensively utilized.

2. Tussah: Tussah is named for its love of eating oak leaves. Cocoon can be silk reeling. It is mainly used for weaving tussah silk. Pupa can be eaten and medicinal materials. It occurs twice a year. Adults appear from April to June and overwinter in cocoons.

3. Celestial silkworm: Celestial silkworm is a silk-spinning insect of Lepidoptera silkworm moth family. It is a very rare species in nature. The celestial silkworm silk produced by it is priceless and is called a green soft gem that competes with gold.

4, camphor silkworm: camphor silkworm is lepidoptera silkworm moth wild silk-spinning insects, its silk can be made into silkworm gut and high-quality fishing silk, China is more common in Guangdong, Taiwan, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places.

5, chestnut silkworm: chestnut silkworm is walnut leaves, chestnut leaves as the main food of the economic insects, widely distributed in Japan, China's "three north" and central and southern regions, chestnut silk is an expensive natural fiber.

6. Silkworm: Silkworm is an economic insect that feeds on Chinese tallow, castor, holly, Michelia, Paulownia, parasol tree, camphor tree leaves, etc. It belongs to Lepidoptera silkworm moth family insects and is distributed in China, Japan, India and other countries.

7. Willow silkworm: Willow silkworm mainly eats leaves such as maple poplar, snow willow, Chinese tallow, camptotheca acuminata, apple, pear, etc. It is a silk insect. High-quality cocoon can draw 300 meters of silk. It has the advantages of fine and rot resistance. It is mainly distributed in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

8. Tiger silkworm: Tiger silkworm is a kind of silkworm. There are black and white stripes on the silkworm body in larva stage. There is little difference between moth stage and ordinary white silkworm. It likes to eat mulberry plants in larva stage, especially mulberry leaves. Cocoon is an important raw material for textile industry.