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

Explores various types of insect homes and their life cycles. It discusses how insects like moths, webworms, spittle bugs, gall wasps, beetles, ants, cicadas, ant lions, caddis fly larvae, wasps, and ...

This discovery—or so the legend goes—marked the beginning of silk production. Silk originates from the cocoon of the domestic ...

The species was originally identified by John H. Wood on July 10, 1890, near Tarrington, England. After the discovery, Wood ...

I spotted this rook with a very unusual beak in Galway city lately. Despite the unusual shape it seemed very healthy and was ...

A tiny, elusive moth species that can only feed on one kind ... larvae or the pale orange-brown cocoons. “Larvae were found in late June and July in England, Germany and Hungary, between 17 ...

"The silkworm makes a cocoon, and if you leave it alone, in two weeks, the moth will come out," she said. When the moth breaks out of the cocoon, it damages the precious silk thread, meaning it ...

A tiny, elusive moth species that can only feed on one kind ... larvae or the pale orange-brown cocoons. Rhiannon Saegert is a McClatchy Real-Time reporter covering the midwest from Southern ...

As you may recall from last week, a reader sent in a picture of a nest for identification.