Did you know that mulberry silkworm spins a hammock?

When a mulberry silkworm larva is fully grown and ready to pupate, it stops feeding and searches for a suitable location to spin its cocoon.

Once it finds a suitable location, it firstly weaves a hammock of irregular webs to support it before it suspends the cocoon. Webs and fibre woven by mulberry silkworm are strong, created by liquid silk emitted by the silkworm that is made up of protein.

Once the hammock is complete, the larva settles to produce an even, regular, lozenge-shaped, and closely-knit cocoon of silk.