Found throughout the eastern United States and Canada, this silk moth’s unique pale green color and long tails make it easy ...
What you see here is the amazing caterpillar of Saturniidae ... But this one is truly spectacular. Saturniidae moths, often ...
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 ...
Atlas moth caterpillars also produce silk similar to the product created by domesticated silkworms. It is secreted as strong, brown, broken strands called fagara, and is used to build a cocoon when ...
traps snails in their silk threads, so they can take their time to devour their prey. Found in the Mediterranean region, the young caterpillars of the Heterogynis penella species eat their own mothers ...
The high levels of defense compounds in the defoliated forest caused serious damage to the native silk moth caterpillars. Few caterpillars survived when fed leaves from the previously defoliated ...
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 ...
Known for its traditional health benefits, this remarkable fungus may hold the key to slowing cancer progression, according ...
Spanish-born and Scotland-based pianist, singer and songwriter Maud The Moth has shared a video for her haunting new single ...
“Mothing is the new birding,” says Liti Haramaty, a researcher at Rutgers University and co-founder of National Moth Week.
The Siberian silk moth is a butterfly, the caterpillars of which feed on fir needles of almost all conifers. Therefore, they are one of the taiga’s most dangerous pests. The trees damaged by ...