- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Bombyx mori
- Contributor to Resource:
- Photograph by Nikita
- Date of Original:
- 2014-06-04
- Subject:
- Business
Economy--Georgia - Location:
- United States, California, Santa Clara County, Cupertino, 37.323, -122.03218
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- An adult silkmoth, Bombyx mori. This species's caterpillar, the mulberry silkworm, has produced silk textiles for millennia. Eighteenth-century Georgia colonists tried and failed to establish a silk industry in Savannah.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/insects-and-spiders/bombyx-mori-moth-on-leaf_001-2/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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