Bombyx mori 300 to about 900 m (1,000 to 3,000 ft) long. The fibers are very fine and lustrous, about 10 μm (0.0004 in) in diameter. About 2,000 to 3,000 cocoons are required to make a pound of silk (0.4 kg). At least 70 million pounds of raw silk are produced each year, requiring nearly 10 billion cocoons. Due to its small size and ease of culture, the silkworm has become a model organism in the study of lepidopteran and arthropod biology. Fundamental findings on pheromones, hormones, brain structures, and physiology have been made with the silkworm. One example of this was
Larva Mortus Larva Mortus Larva Mortus is a video game developed by independent video game developer Rake In Grass in 2008. It is a top-down shooter similar to Crimsonland. The source code of the Torque 2D based game was made available by the developer under non-commercial usage terms in 2009. The game is set at the end of 19th Century. It follows a man who was recruited to agency which specializes on exorcism of various supernatural evil creatures. He is soon forced to face a dark evil from ancient times as it plans to capture a powerful artifact of black magic. The