It's not a butterfly — it's a moth! Learn how to identify the promethea silk moth, a beautifully patterned backyard visitor.

The domestication of the silk moth is one of the oldest examples of insect domestication. The process of silk farming ...

Found throughout the eastern United States and Canada, this silk moth’s unique pale green color and long tails make it easy ...

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 ...

A new documentary explores how climate change, pesticide use, and a shrinking market are pushing Muga silk toward collapse ...

From these eggs will hatch tiny silkworms, caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori, which will then set to chomping down on mulberry leaves and preparing themselves for the demanding ...

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 ...

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 ...

worms of the silk moth, and the silk cocoons that they produce, and mulberry seeds - because mulberry leaves are what silk worms need to eat. Then we see what happens next. In front of the ...