Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture

natural silk (secreted by silkworm)

sericulturist

silkworm eggs

see 蠶蔟|蚕蔟[can2 cu4]

silkworm guano (excrement)

a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting

silkworm eggs

bamboo tray for raising silkworms

paper on which silkworm lays its eggs

silkworm cocoon

Malabar spinach (Basella alba)

small bundle of straw etc provided for silkworms to spin cocoons on

variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔[can2 bo2]

newly hatched silkworm

silkworm chrysalis; silkworm pupa

Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori)

broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean

(lit. and fig.) to nibble away at

silkworm

paper made from silkworm cocoons

G6PD deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency)

(lit.) to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom); (fig.) to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale