Smoking â Tobacco use is one of the major risk factors for cancer of the pancreas. It is believed that those who smoke are twice as likely to get the disease. Obesity â As we know, obesity is a strong risk factor for many diseases, not just cancer.
The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of the domesticated silk moth, Bombyx mori (Latin: silkworm of the mulberry tree). It is an economically important insect, being a primary producer of silk. A silkworm's preferred food is white mulberry leaves, though they may eat other mulberry species and even osage orange. Domestic silk moths are closely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding.
If you absolutely cannot locate a mulberry tree, silkworms will eat other varieties of. leaves, including nettle, oak, rose, and elm. They will also eat certain weed species and. vegetable plants leaves, but the quality and color of the silk produced is far from ideal. There are also commercially available artificial diets, but the silk produced from them. can be very poor, and sometimes silkworms fed this diet will not spin cocoons at all, so I.