and then emerge as a stunning winged butterfly. A moth’s process varies slightly. The caterpillars typically form silk ...

Tufts University researchers have created a web-slinging material that solidifies mid-air, lifting objects up to 80 times its ...

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Of course, nature is the original inspiration for deploying fibers of silk into tethers, webs, and cocoons. Spiders, ants, ...

A zoologist couple from Chattogram, Md Jahir Rayhan and Sayema Jahan, determined the genus and the species of a newly discovered moth and came up with a name for it — Paraxenoacria spinosa ...

In nature, all manner of spiders, butterflies, moths, beetles and even bees produce silk at some point in their lives to fulfill some kind of need – whether that be to build a web or a nest, or to ...

This adult luna moth has a very penetrating gaze. These moths are quite large, and their caterpillars produce silk shortly before the pupa stage of their development. Get a closer view of the image ...

Inspired by the fantastical abilities of comic book superheroes, researchers at Tufts University have developed a real-life ...

Drone-mounted LiDAR scans reveal two remote cities buried high in the mountains of Central Asia — plus, how a digital ...

A mention of silk moths may conjure up images of China where, for millennia, fibers teased from cocoons of domesticated silk moths (Bombyx mori) have been used to manufacture silk, and the producers, ...