silkworm egg

He hands out the silkworm eggs that eventually poison the children.

The products concerned are silkworms and silkworm eggs.

Because the silkworm eggs are considered parasites by the immigration officials, Desdemona must dispose of them.

He is happy when he gets the opportunity to change his profession to that of trader of silkworm eggs.

Hervé’s mission is to save Europe’s doomed silk industry by bringing home from Japan a cache of silkworm eggs.

The specimens include geckos, silkworm eggs, dried seeds, fruit flies, and mushrooms.

To remedy these defects, silkworm eggs were imported for the first time from Japan and were distributed among the people of the trade.

Booth-Tucker brought along hundred ounces of silkworm eggs (about 3 million eggs) from France.

The princess concealed silkworm eggs and mulberry seeds in her headdress and smuggled them through the Chinese frontier.

He had sent two Nestorian monks to Central Asia, and they were able to smuggle silkworm eggs to him hidden in rods of bamboo.

Persian monks visiting China in 552 A.D., for instance, brought back silkworm eggs concealed in a hollow cane.

At first, the profits from the seri-culture fad were large, not, however, from the manufacture of silk, but from the sale of silkworm eggs.

Land began to be distributed in September 1571: most settlers received specified quantities of irrigated land, vineyards, silkworm eggs, and fruit, nut and chestnut trees.

According to a story by Procopius, it was not until 552 CE that the Byzantine emperor Justinian obtained the first silkworm eggs.

The King of Khotan wanted to obtain silkworm eggs, mulberry seeds and Chinese know-how - the three crucial components of silk production.

According to his text, silkworm eggs, mulberry trees and weaving techniques passed from Khotan to India, and from there eventually reached Europe.

Legend has it that monks working for the emperor Justinian I smuggled silkworm eggs to Constantinople in hollow canes from China.

The aid will be granted to rearers for each box of silkworm eggs containing a minimum quantity of eggs and if the silkworms have been successfully reared.

Two Christian monks are said to have concealed silkworm eggs in the hollows of their wooden staffs and smuggled them out of China by the Silk Road.

Two (possibly Nestorian) monks were preaching Christianity in India in the 6th century before they smuggled silkworm eggs from China to the Eastern Roman Empire.

Pasteur worked several years proving that these diseases were caused by a microbe attacking silkworm eggs, and that eliminating the microbe in silkworm nurseries would eradicate the disease.

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.

Silk cultivation spread to Japan around 300 CE, and, by 522 CE, the Byzantines managed to obtain silkworm eggs and were able to begin silkworm cultivation.

A bit more daringly, it might be noted that the two nations have been pinching one another’s secrets for at least 1,500 years—since Christian monks smuggled silkworm eggs from China to Byzantium in hollow canes.

Pagoda fountain oriental style, it was built in 1648 as indicated in its glazed colored tiles, probably from the drawings (and the money) of an Anduzien who went to look for silkworm eggs from the east.