“…The species spins white, lustrous, soft, biodegradable and highly crystalline silk. The silk fibre has magnificent mechanical properties including strength, stiffness and hardness under tensile and compressive stress (Li et al, 2002;Rigueiro et al, 2002;Bajwa et al, 2019). Silkworm is also a perfect model insect species for scientific studies (Meng et al, 2017).…”