What is "silkworms"

Usage examples of "silkworms".

Her twenty thousand silkworms, sensitive to human emotion, stopped spinning cocoons.

All around her, in a firmament, soft white silkworms clung to bundled mulberry twigs.

She looked for other things, too, because her mother also maintained that silkworms reacted to historical atrocities.

She went inside the cocoonery to look at her silkworms for the last time.

Without silkworms to tend or mulberry trees to pick, without neighbors to gossip with or goats to milk, my grandmother filled her time with food.

Pasteur hated to go South to try to find out what ailed silkworms, he knew he risked a horrid failure by going and he detested failure above everything.

He packed up the never complaining Madame Pasteur and the children and a microscope and three energetic and worshiping young assistants and he went into the epidemic that was slaughtering millions of silkworms and ruining the South of France.

At a time when he should have stayed in his bed, or have gone to the seaside, he staggered to his feet and limped to the train for the South, exclaiming indignantly that it would be criminal not to finish saving the silkworms while so many poor people were starving!

Unless one has seen them, it is quite impossible to imagine how much silkworms can -- must -- eat, and their only food is mulberry leaves.

It is not much of an exaggeration to say that the chewing sounds of ravenous silkworms are enough to waken hibernating bears, but sleep would be out of the question anyway.

After the Big Sleep silkworms will die if an hour passes without food, and we worked day and night stripping leaves from trees and carrying them to the cottages in basket brigades.

The old ones tended the fires, because silkworms must have steady heat, and the children who were too young to work in basket brigades were turned out to fend for themselves.

Gradually the silkworms changed color, from black to green, and from green to white, and then translucent, and the oldest family members erected bamboo screens in front of the racks, because silkworms are shy when they begin to spin and must have privacy.

I ran back out and turned into cottage after cottage, where tiny children stared at me and cried, or laughed and wanted to play, and the old ones who wept beside the racks of rotting silkworms were otherwise as healthy as horses.

The room was filled with wire cages that held fat silkworms, gray-green caterpillars that were voracious eating machines.