Study of the yield of dry cocoons from living ones depending on silkiness

It is known that one of the main factors of the modern problem of cocoon-winding production is: the low level of cocoon cultivation in the agricultural sector, the imperfection of thermophysical and technological processes in the operation of existing equipment for the primary processing of cocoons, due to the lack of scientifically based work in this direction. With modern factory cocoon reeling, it is almost impossible to unwind all the cocoons harvested during the season in a short period of time. To provide cocoon reeling factories with raw materials for year-round operation, it is necessary to protect the cocoon shells from damage by butterflies, i.e., it is necessary to preserve the cocoons, preventing the pupae from developing into butterflies. To do this, you need to either store the cocoons in conditions that exclude (or inhibit) the process of turning pupae into butterflies, or kill the pupae in the cocoons. The most common is the second method, called pickling cocoons.