Sweet corn silk can grow as much as 1.5 inches per day during the first several days of silking, leaving a large amount of tissue unprotected for moths to lay eggs on ... smaller larvae and less ...

It’s the time of year to keep your eyes peeled for browntail moth webs, as they’re more active as the weather warms.

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, December 14. /TASS/. Researchers from the Siberian Federal University, the Krasnoyarsk Research Center from the RAS Siberian Branch, and the Center of Forest Protection of the Krasnoyarsk ...