"silk" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His wife, Helen Spurway, conducted studies on wild silk moths.
- It is a member of the Saturniidae family, or giant silk moths.
- The pheromone is called bombykol, and attracts male silk moths.
- We humans cannot smell bombykol, but it is potent in its effect on male silk moths.
- Silk is a naturally produced fibre obtained from many species of the silk moth.
- Researchers praised the findings as the best explanation yet for declines in wild silk moths in the Northeast.
- The wild silk moths, he said, should not be confused with the commercial silk moth, an Asian species.
- The tree also acts as a foodplant for a wild silk moth, Gonometa rufobrunnea.
- Unlike most silk moths, those that pupate underground do not use much silk in the construction.
- The Japanese consider the silk moth pupae a delicacy.
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