The Story of Silk Print
Titel:      The Story of Silk
BuchID:      1260
Autor:      John Kershaw, John Kershaw
ISBN-10(13):      978-1911412472
Verlag:      The Story of Silk
Seitenanzahl:      0
Sprache:      English
Bewertung:      0 
Bild:      cover
Beschreibung:     

My interest in silk dates from 1990. Since then I have bred my own silkworms and found something of interest about silk in all five continents. It all began 400 million years ago when ancestors of spiders crawled out of the sea onto dry land and used silk to prevent their eggs from drying out and make trap lines to detect prey. Many animals make silk: among them spiders reign supreme, but the silk industry depends on a moth, Bombyx mori, that has been bred in captivity over thousands of years and long since lost the power of flight to become the only insect to be completely domesticated.