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 ...

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

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.

Bagworm moth larvae expel the versatile thread from their ... to boost manufacturing and develop products that take advantage of the silk's properties. Unlike sericulture in which cocoons are boiled ...

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, the stage of development before the moth becomes an adult. The ...

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 ...

The world is full of amazing and strange insects, including this little creature that builds its own tiny log cabins.

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 ...

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 ...