Table 2.

Effects of feeding with different concentrations of AgNPs on silkworm baby weights

Ag NPs (mg/L)	4th silkworm baby weight (g)			5th silkworm baby weight (g)
	0 h	24 h	48 h	24 h	48 h	72 h	96 h	120 h	144 h
0	0.217 ± 0.004 a	0.431 ± 0.032 a	0.656 ± 0.021 a	0.871 ± 0.041 a	1.346 ± 0.021 a	1.816 ± 0.048 a	2.301 ± 0.033 a	2.968 ± 0.167 a	3.352 ± 0.154 a
100	0.217 ± 0.002 a	0.433 ± 0.010 a	0.600 ± 0.017 b	0.877 ± 0.030 a	1.376 ± 0.026 a	1.863 ± 0.050 a	2.255 ± 0.069 a	2.994 ± 0.100 a	3.463 ± 0.221 a
200	0.218 ± 0.003 a	0.436 ± 0.011 a	0.657 ± 0.021 a	0.874 ± 0.017 a	1.465 ± 0.052 b	1.928 ± 0.092 a	2.475 ± 0.051 a	3.12 ± 0.100 a	3.607 ± 0.089 a
400	0.219 ± 0.015 a	0.469 ± 0.001 b	0.688 ± 0.017 a	0.885 ± 0.020 a	1.438 ± 0.050 b	2.043 ± 0.135 b	2.653 ± 0.062 b	3.379 ± 0.030 b	3.94 ± 0.089 b
800	0.218 ± 0.001 a	0.453 ± 0.012 a	0.705 ± 0.029 b	0.960 ± 0.068 b	1.375 ± 0.013 a	2.009 ± 0.057 b	2.589 ± 0.005 b	3.285 ± 0.130 b	3.814 ± 0.037 b
1600	0.216 ± 0.025 a	0.449 ± 0.026 a	0.711 ± 0.031 b	0.964 ± 0.065 b	1.374 ± 0.015 a	1.919 ± 0.032 a	2.603 ± 0.113 b	3.286 ± 0.032 b	3.635 ± 0.077 a
3200	0.218 ± 0.023 a	0.431 ± 0.014 a	0.672 ± 0.038 b	0.953 ± 0.011 b	1.354 ± 0.010 a	1.869 ± 0.048 a	2.419 ± 0.069 a	3.226 ± 0.082 b	3.456 ± 0.336 a