Quinn notes that: “While the Silkworm is not native to North America, Hariot might easily have mistaken the larvae of the Tent Caterpillar, or those of the Fall Web-worm, together with their webs, for silkworms.”
Works Cited:; The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590: Volume I, ed. David Beers Quinn (London: Hakluyt Society, 1955), 326.;