Ann Arbor community members gathered Wednesday evening at the Ann Arbor Downtown District Library to hear Barrett Klein ...

The sustainable material is based on silk moth cocoons. The silk can hold up to 80 times its own weight and acts like an ...

Silk moths blow away every belief you’ve ever ... Rather than spinning a cocoon, Imperial moths burrow in the ground beneath their host trees (pine, oak, maple, and more). They overwinter ...

Bagworm moth larvae expel the versatile thread from their mouths to bind together ... tens of billions of yen in a bid to boost manufacturing and develop products that take advantage of the silk's ...

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 ...

Tami Gingrich details some all-natural items — pine cones, nuts, cocoons and more — that can be collected to create beautiful ...

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 a silk thread factory near Chengdu in China, I was able to see the source of silk: the cocoons of the Silk Moth I don't think I'll ever forget the smell! This gallery is from ...

Sericulture, or silk farming, is a technology that cultivates silk from the cocoons of silk moth caterpillars which latch onto mulberry branches. If the progress of mulberry silk farms continues ...

These sticky fibres, 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.