Silk moths blow away every belief you’ve ever had that all moths are small and dull. These large vibrant moths can have ...

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 ...

The males have large leg segments that house glands that ... Ermine moth caterpillars also known as silk moths are capable of producing silk. They create silk webs that can cover entire trees ...

The caterpillar, along with most others in the Saturniidae family, spins a silk cocoon. This is where it then spends ... you could probably pass by a live moth, even a large one, 10 times without ...

As they grow, caterpillars produce large amounts of silk webbing and faeces, both of which can contaminate food.' Professor ...

The researchers changed course to study the impact of the spongy moth on the native polyphemus silk moth, which feeds in mid- to late summer, after the spongy moth. They found that the defoliation ...

Although it’s not widely known amongst local residents that one of the leading 19th-century silk thread manufacturers in the world was located in Northampton, a close look at Northampton’s city seal ...

One summer, I found a large moth concealed in the folds of clothes left hanging to dry overnight on the clothesline in our back garden. Mottled brown with yellow and orange markings, it was an ...

The forewings are brown with one large dark spot and two smaller dark spots ... summer months and up to three weeks in colder weather. Common clothes moth larvae spin tunnels of silk and nearby ...

Right in the middle is the silk princess herself, with her large and prominent headdress ... worms of the silk moth, and the silk cocoons that they produce, and mulberry seeds - because mulberry ...

Okhunova is referring to the thousands of moth cocoons that are unspooled one arm’s length at a time in large, dented tin basins of soapy water. The miracle of silk comes from fibers spun by the ...

Right in the middle is the silk princess herself, with her large and prominent headdress ... worms of the silk moth, and the silk cocoons that they produce, and mulberry seeds - because mulberry ...