Silk: The Caterpillar


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1) A small farm that raises silk worms; 2) My driver “Rapid” standing in a small patch of mulberry - the leaves are food for the caterpillars; 3) A shed where caterpillar are raised - it is enclosed in netting to prevent other insects from eating the silk worms - photographed in Ban Khwao, Northeast Thailand.

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4) A rack of containers holding caterpillars feeding on mulberry leaves; 5) A closer look at a mass of feeding silk worms, both pictures from Ban Khwao; 6) When the caterpillars mature they weave a yellow-colored cocoons of silk filament - photographed at an exhibition in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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