Evaluation of Different Fabricated Mountages for Various Cocoon Reeling Parameters of Silkworm, Bombyx mori L.

Evaluation of Self-mounting Spiral Mountage on Cocooning of Silkworm, Bombyx mori

“…Among self-mounting structures, the highest number of cocoons were harvested from self-mounting spiral mountage (190.34 cocoons/ mountage) and the least from plastic collapsible mountage (183.54 cocoons/ mountage) (Table -1). The adequate space provided by the selfmounting spiral mountage, longer duration of mounting and better aeration/ventilation available for the silkworm encourages comfortable spinning on the new spiral mountage resulting in increased number of cocoons which is also supported by the findings of Sahana et al (2020b).…”

“…The highest per cent of defective cocoons was observed on plastic collapsible mountage, which was 6.52 per cent. The higher percentage of defective cocoons in the plastic mountage may be due to misshape, poor maintenance and non-absorbent nature of the mountage (Sakthivel, 2019 andSahana et al, 2020b).…”