Changa Manga silkworm eggs (about 3 million eggs) from France. To house the worms, he created long sheds from bamboo and dried grass. The worms’ feed consisted entirely of mulberry leaves obtained from felled trees in the forest. The worms fed on 70 hundredweights of leaves a day. In 1916, the Governor of Punjab Sir Michael O'Dwyer visited the silk experiment where the silkworms had started developing cocoons. The governor left pleased with Booth-Tucker’s work. The Salvation Army Silk Camp remained a sustainable venture for a year after the governor’s visit, although changes to the climate later led to its decline. The
Silkworm (missile) October 1967, marking the first time that ship-to-ship missiles were successfully used in combat. While it is not a particularly sophisticated missile when compared to newer generations of anti-Ship missiles such as the French Exocet or Russian Kh-15 and P-800 Oniks, the Silkworm's unusually large warhead ensures that a single hit will inflict very serious damage. Silkworm (missile) The Shang You or SY-series (), and the Hai Ying or HY-series () were early Chinese anti-ship missiles. They were derived from the Soviet P-15 Termit missile. The HY-1 and HY-2 received the NATO reporting name Silkworm. However, to confuse matters, Western