Silkworm Small 222×320 Medium 445×640 Large 712×1024 Download Tiff Original 1668×2400 | (2.2 MB) Description "Silk is the peculiar glossy thread spun by the caterpillars or larvae of species of moths, and a well-known kind of fabric manufactured from it."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911) Keywords caterpillars or larvae of species of moths, insects, silk, silk worm, silkworm Galleries Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies Source: Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York, NY: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)