At what stage in the life cycle of a silk moth is it killed to get the silk? About how many have to be killed to get one kilogram of silk?

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At the cocoon stage, silk moth is boiled to get silk from them.
To obtain 1 kg of silk we have to kill 9-10 cocoons.

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