US 11,926,927 B2
Method of collecting bagworm silk thread
Taiyo Yoshioka, Tsukuba (JP); Tsunenori Kameda, Tsukuba (JP); Akimune Asanuma, Tsukuba (JP); and Hironori Sassa, Tsukuba (JP)
Assigned to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, Tsukuba (JP); and KOWA COMPANY, LTD., Nagoya (JP)
Appl. No. 16/957,990
Filed by NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, Tsukuba (JP); and KOWA COMPANY, LTD., Nagoya (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 18, 2018, PCT No. PCT/JP2018/046597
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 25, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/131333, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 4, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-251904 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0372007 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. D01B 7/00 (2006.01); A01K 67/04 (2006.01); D01B 7/06 (2006.01); D01C 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC D01B 7/06 (2013.01) [A01K 67/04 (2013.01); D01C 3/02 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of collecting a bagworm silk thread, comprising:
placing process of placing a naked bagworm separated from a bagworm nest, together with a nest material(s) soluble in a solvent which does not damage, denature, or dissolve the bagworm silk thread;
nest building process of allowing the naked bagworm to build a bagworm nest using the nest material(s);
dissolving process of dissolving the nest material(s) in the solvent; and
separation process of separating the dissolved nest material(s) from the bagworm silk thread.