Evaluation of six mixtures of food additives on some biological and reproductivity parameters of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori L. [electronic resource].

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The investigation aimed to study the effect of six mixtures of the following food additives potassium iodide, treacle, ascorbic acid, dry milk, Albumen and dry yeast on certain biological and reproductivity parameters of 5th instar larvae of the mulberry silkworm B. mori L. in trail to improve the reproductivity characters of eggs and silk.The results indicated that the treatments signiftcantly increased all biological and reproductivity parameters than the control one.The results proved that the treatment contains (potassium iodide 20 ug/ml, treacle 0.2g, ascorbic acid 0.2g and dry yeast 0.2g/100 ml water) significantly gave the heaviest weights of larvae, silk glands, pupae, cocoon and cocoon shells.

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