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

Moths tend to be attracted to natural fibers like cashmere, silk, lambswool ... while the casemaking clothes moth is pale, silvery gray-brown with dark spots, and fringed, hairy wings.

An invasive pest that chows down on boxwood plants is expanding its range. The quarantine area is being extended to include ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Box Tree Moth (BTM) caterpillars are green and hairy, with black stripes and white dots. They grow to about 1 to 2 inches. Adults are white with a thick brown border on the wings and are active at ...

Larvae can reach 12mm and are white with a hardened, brown head capsule and one ocelli (simple eyes). The case-bearing moth derives its name from the tunnel-like cases that the larvae spin from silk ...

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 ...