(If allowed to emerge from a cocoon, an adult moth would ruin the silk, so just enough adult moths were allowed to fully mature to maintain the reproduction cycle.) The cocoons were then put in ...

Last week the circle was complete: silk that had gone from Japan to the U.S. was going to China, to be used as bandages. The silk, too, was a kind of scrap: old silk stockings. For ten years ...

As moths and butterflies do, the promethea silk moth starts its life as a caterpillar. After feeding on the leaves of its host plants and breaking away from the group of feeding caterpillars ...

This is due to its beauty, the detail on its wings, and its sheer size at every stage of its life cycle.' Adult atlas moths may be massive ... slowing flapping its wings to imitate snake head and neck ...

Both moths have a similar life cycle and infestations can be controlled using the same approach ... which hatch between 4-10 days in summer months and up to three weeks in colder weather. Common ...

Pharmaceutical giant Kowa Co. said it has created an exceptionally durable and environmentally friendly new textile from the gossamer silk of bagworm moth larvae. In its Nov. 20 announcement ...