What are silkworms?

Silkworms are tiny creatures that make super soft threads to create beautiful clothes and soft blankets.

Imagine you have a little friend who loves to spin, like when you twist yarn around your finger to make a ball. That’s what silkworms do, but they use their own special kind of thread!

Silkworms start as tiny eggs, and when they hatch, they become little worms that eat a lot, mostly leaves from a special tree called a mulberry tree. They grow bigger and bigger until one day, they stop eating and start spinning.

They spin their thread around themselves like a blanket, making a cocoon. This cocoon is made of just one long thread, imagine twisting a string into a ball so tight that it becomes a round house!

After some time, the silkworm changes into a butterfly, and the cocoon is left behind. People then take the cocoon and use special tools to pull out the long thread, which is used to make silk fabric!