After more than a month of careful care, the tens of thousands of silkworm babies raised at home have experienced life processes such as molting, spitting silk, and breaking cocoons, and have now entered the breeding period.
In the eyes of rural professional farmers, they prefer to raise more male silkworms because male silkworms produce more silk than female silkworms, and consume fewer mulberry leaves than female silkworms.
Why do male silkworms eat less but spit more silk? This also starts with the characteristics of silkworms. Male moths live shorter than female moths during the adult stage, and they generally die after mating with female moths. Female moths, on the other hand, produce a large number of eggs after mating.
Both male and female moths do not eat or drink, and rely on the accumulated substances in the body to maintain life. The male moth accumulates less material and the female moth accumulates more material; because the male moth dies after mating, while the female moth lays eggs for a longer period of time to continue the race.
Male silkworms require less material for reproductive gland development, unlike female silkworms, which are needed to store eggs in the body; thus, male silkworms can convert more material into silk and spit out as cocoons.
Male silkworm moth is another name for the male silkworm moth, which is a precious Chinese medicinal material in ancient and modern times. As early as the Tang Dynasty, the male silkworm moth was regarded as a special kidney tonic, anti-aging and life extension treasure dedicated to the court. In the Ming Dynasty's "Compendium of Materia Medica", the male silkworm moth was called a "national treasure of the god worm".
Male silkworm moth is a traditional kidney tonic medicine, male silkworm moth can surpass ginseng, deer antler velvet, astragalus, danshen and many other traditional Chinese medicines. It contains not only general nutrients, but also very special bioactive hormones. Modern pharmacological studies have found that it contains 18 amino acids with an essential amino acid content of up to 46. 7%; contains vitamin D equivalent to the content of eggs, contains vitamin E to pig liver content; rich in trace elements selenium;
In addition to being rich in male hormones and natural biotin, it also contains three very special bioactive hormones( including feathering hormone, hyperglycemia hormone, prostate hormone and diuretic hormone), molting hormone and baby-care hormone.