Textile is an animal textile made from the fibres of the cocoon of the Chinese silkworm which is spun into a smooth fabric prized for its softness. There are two main types of the silk: 'mulberry silk' produced by the Bombyx Mori, and 'wild silk' such as Tussah silk. Silkworm larvae produce the first type if cultivated in habitats with fresh mulberry leaves for consumption, while Tussah silk is produced by silkworms feeding purely on oak leaves. Around four-fifths of the world's silk production consists of cultivated silk. Grass, rush, hemp, and sisal are all used in making rope. In the
Does a Bee Care? ship leaves Earth and at the appropriate point, Kane departs from the ship and, now fully developed, travels unaided to its home planet. The author draws an analogy between Kane and a bee that visits and thereby pollinates flowers at random, with no real knowledge of what it has done. The illustrated adaptation by Moniz and Abel differs from the original short in that the comic is told largely from the perspective of the rocket scientist, Dr. Hammer, who is introduced as he struggles with an impossible math problem related to an upcoming launch. On several occasions, stargazing janitor Kane