1. Cocoons of the moth are harvested as wild silk , to make cloth. 2. Other species are of major commercial importance in tussah and wild silk production. 3. Wild silk , being of smaller lengths, had to be spun.4. Several species of this genus have caterpillars which produce wild silk of commercial importance. 5. Wild silks were in use in China from early times.6. This wild silk equally has a local market importance. 7. Other interesting products were the silkworm and the wild silk or tussah ( tussor ) Worm. 8. The tree also acts as a foodplant for a wild silk moth, " Gonometa rufobrunnea ". 9. Researchers praised the findings as the best explanation yet for declines in wild silk moths in the Northeast. 10. The wild silk moths, he said, should not be confused with the commercial silk moth, an Asian species.
