Because it is also colorful, people often mistake this moth for a butterfly. It’s a Canadian import that used to be far more ...

Three decades after they last swarmed Edmonton, the forest tent caterpillars are back in the millions. “They’ve typically ...

Learn how to attract and identify a painted lady butterfly and caterpillar. Find out what they eat and what host plants you ...

The ermine moth eggs are laid ... had also been "covered in silk". The silk covers the bark of the tree as well as the leaves, giving the appearance that the tree is white Charles Shellard ...

they also used silkworm silk as a suture material, thanks to its strength and slow breakdown in the body. Centuries of selective breeding have created B. mori moths that are blind and bright white, so ...

They lay tiny eggs in sheltered places, such as fabric seams, and these develop into larvae that grow inside the silky cocoons (pupae ... moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella) is attracted to ...

Legend tells us that the Chinese empress Leizu founded the cultivation of silk from caterpillars over 5,000 years ago, after a silkworm moth cocoon ... bugs exude a white, waxy protective fluff ...

Cindy Burkhardt Maynard had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then, it disappeared. Soon after, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit ...

Eckerman, the chair of the biology department at Austin Community College, parks the wagon and begins to wrap a tree trunk in white cloth ... with hummingbirds. Silk moths, such as the luna ...

June means warm nights, summer solstice, fireflies … and the seldom-seen giant silk moths. Giant silk moths ... black with white spots. The fourth instar where the nymphs display their red ...

While the plan for an American silk industry failed, the moths stuck around ... “It’s the white-footed mice in the forest eating pupae,” he said. “That is the key to regulating the ...