Ann Arbor community members gathered Wednesday evening at the Ann Arbor Downtown District Library to hear Barrett Klein ...

Contrary to popular belief, this is not a cocoon. Only certain moths build cocoons, which are like a silky sleeping bag that covers the insect. This, on the other hand, is what's called a chrysalis.

The sustainable material is based on silk moth cocoons. The silk can hold up to 80 times its own weight and acts like an ...

The caterpillar, along with most others in the Saturniidae family, spins a silk cocoon. This is where it then spends its time as a pupa, the stage of development before the moth becomes an adult. The ...

Tami Gingrich details some all-natural items — pine cones, nuts, cocoons and more — that can be collected to create beautiful ...

The cocoon can start at the size of a pinhead and end up to two inches long. The caterpillar is capable of shedding its skin up to four times to accommodate the butterfly’s growth. Moth larvae ...

The female moths don't have legs or wings, so they can never venture far from their cocoons. After mating, they return to the cocoon and hatch their larvae. And when the young hatch, they immediately ...

A caterpillar uses pieces of earth to create a cocoon to transform into a moth. The process of transformation from caterpillar to moth involves turning into goo. Sometimes this process involves ...