Nutritional Effects of Three Mulberry Varieties on Silkworms in Torbat Heydarieh

Table 2

Mean of larvae and cocoon traits of a silkworm hybrid fed with three varieties of mulberry leaves.

Tree variety	Larvae (g)	Mortality (%)	Cocoon (g)	Number of cocoon (per liter)	Weight of a litter of cocoon (g)	Best cocoon weight per 1000 larvae (kg)
Kenmochi	1.62	4.33	0.63	112.67	181.63	1.521^a
Native	1.59	10.00	0.64	111.00	176.31	1.361^ab
Black berry	1.51	11.33	0.61	119.67	181.06	1.267^b
CV	4.47	49.28	4.44	4.19	5.83	6.02
Mean ± SE	1.58 ± 0.83	8.56 ± 4.22	0.63 ± 0.03	114.44 ± 4.79	179.67 ± 10.47	1.38 ± 0.83
F	1.82	1.67	1.85	1.53	0.46	3.57
	0.2882	0.3148	0.2836	0.3451	0.7659	0.1226

^a,bValues in the same column with different superscripts differ significantly at .