| 1. | Cocoons of the moth are harvested as wild silk, to make cloth.
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| 2. | Other species are of major commercial importance in tussah and wild silk production.
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| 3. | Wild silk, being of smaller lengths, had to be spun.
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| 4. | Several species of this genus have caterpillars which produce wild silk of commercial importance.
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| 5. | Wild silks were in use in China from early times.
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| 6. | This wild silk equally has a local market importance.
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| 7. | Other interesting products were the silkworm and the wild silk or tussah ( tussor ) Worm.
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| 8. | The tree also acts as a foodplant for a wild silk moth, " Gonometa rufobrunnea ".
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| 9. | Researchers praised the findings as the best explanation yet for declines in wild silk moths in the Northeast.
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| 10. | The wild silk moths, he said, should not be confused with the commercial silk moth, an Asian species.
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