This adult luna moth has a very penetrating gaze. These moths are quite large, and their caterpillars produce silk shortly before the pupa stage of their development. Get a closer view of the image ...

Legend tells us that the Chinese empress Leizu founded the cultivation of silk from caterpillars over 5,000 years ago, after a silkworm moth cocoon plummeted into her steaming teacup, unraveling ...

A zoologist couple from Chattogram, Md Jahir Rayhan and Sayema Jahan, determined the genus and the species of a newly discovered moth and came up with a name for it — Paraxenoacria spinosa ...

the Tufts University Silklab team discovered that the silk from silk moth cocoons can be turned into a shootable, sticky protein solution that works surprisingly like Spider-Man’s famous sticky webs.

The Madagascan moon moth (Argema mittrei) begins life as a caterpillar, hatching from one of 100 to 150 eggs, although many of its siblings will not make it to adulthood. The caterpillar, along with ...

In the eighth century a trader to the northeast of us, near a Chinese town called Turpan, paid 40 bolts of raw silk for an 11-year-old slave girl ... keep my cotton-dry mouth shut.

A mention of silk moths may conjure up images of China where, for millennia, fibers teased from cocoons of domesticated silk moths (Bombyx mori) have been used to manufacture silk, and the producers, ...

The Dubrovnik Natural History Museum and the Museums and Galleries of Konavle invite you to the opening of the exhibition ...

Narrator: Lotus flowers, worms, and muga moths are the unlikely source of one of the most delicate and luxurious fibers in the world: silk. Known for its unique sheen and luster, silk has been ...

These sticky fibers, created at the Tufts University Silklab, come from silk moth cocoons, which are boiled in solution and broken down into their building block proteins called fibroin.

I Googled moths to find out whether he’d actually eat all our clothes. Come to find out, they have a strong preference for silk. In my place, it’s denim or nothing. He’d have a better chance ...

During the walks, participants identified nearly 45 bird species and encountered notable moths, including the Tussar Silk Moth. Additionally, participants learnt about various snake species such ...