Cocoonages of muga silkworm is called as

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Cocoonages of muga silkworm is called Jali.
Muga is an Assamese word which indicates the golden brown (amber) colour of the cocoon. The Muga silk worm is multivoltne and passes through four moults and five instar stages. Generally, 4 - 5 crops are raised in a year. Muga silkworm is a polyphagous insect. It feeds on the leaves of several kinds of trees, but Machilus bombycine (Vern. som) and Litsaea polyantha (Vern. soalu) are the two principal host food plants of muga silkworm.
They are then collected by rearers and put in baskets containing mango twigs and leaves, which are set as cocoonages (Jali) for the spinning of cocoons. The jalies are then hung and left undisturbed in separate rooms or at some shady place till cocoon.