One of Final Fantasy XIV’s most intensive and profitable pastimes is crafting and gathering, and just as there are countless items to find and craft throughout the game, there are equally countless ...

A strikingly green caterpillar about as long as my little finger was attached to a sprig of oak leaves in our yard. Knowing the caterpillar with spikes on its back was the larvae of an Io silkworm ...

The Silk-Making Moth's Survival Skills? Practically Zero. A heated debate is underway about the true identity of the silkworm. Arguments are flaring up everywhere about whether it's a moth or a ...

It's all about "the birds and the bees." And now, "the silkworm moths and the fruit flies." A chemical ecologist and a genetics researcher at the University of California, Davis, have joined forces to ...

STORY: These silk lamp shades are made from silkworm cocoons, using a process that ensures the silkworms are not harmed These women meticulously remove the silkworms from their cocoons using their ...

My eight-year-old daughter Nancy appears in the kitchen looking cross. ‘What’s that disgusting thing bobbing about in the bathroom sink?’ she demands. ‘It’s just a silkworm cocoon,’ I reply airily — ...

“Young female new to town seeks a high-flying guy for a good time. If interested — and I know you are — just follow the perfume trail to me, la femelle du papillon de la nuit.” This is a female moth, ...