silkworm

The article wasn't clear, maybe someone knows — how much stronger is the silk than normal silkworm silk?

Reminds me of the Human League song 'Being Boiled' about silkworm usage.

Then they edit a silkworm's genes as a real world test.

Comparing it to Kevlar is kind of apples and oranges for someone who doesn't know how Kevlar compares with either spider silk or silkworm silk.

During the invasion of Iraq it was a completely different story: only one Patriot missed its target (mostly Chinese-made Silkworm missiles) and hit a Kuwaiti shopping center.

All I can say is silkworm pupae are delicious.

On Thursday, October 15, 1987, Iran hit the American-owned supertanker, the Sungari, with a Silkworm missile off Kuwait's main Mina Al Ahmadi oil port.

Only around the year 300 CE did a Japanese expedition succeed in taking some silkworm eggs and four young Chinese girls, who were forced to teach their captors the art of sericulture.

We can imagine a molecular machine that would grow carbon nanotubes like a silkworm grows silk filaments, but we are many decades away from this kind of things.

Anyway, if anyone wants to skip reading it, the tl;dr: "A silkworm exists and does exactly what its born to do, in a way like an artist can fully immerse themselves into their work.

First you must have the right kind of insects (various species of moth in the larval stage are commonly known as "silkworm"), then you must have the right kind of trees to feed them (commonly mulberries), then you add a lot of labour for capture, harvesting, spinning, dyeing, weaving.

Silkworm pupae score very well, but silkworms have been cultivated since forever and remain expensive.