The author visits 17th-century collections of silk-moth species and examines the papers ... crawling, cocooned and flying within and around the leaves and fruits of the host plant.

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 ...

The caterpillar, along with most others in the Saturniidae family, spins a silk cocoon. This is where it then spends its time as a pupa ... It seems that spinning tails behind a flying moth interfere ...