Late fall and early winter are the best times of year to spot giant silk moth cocoons in New England. Perhaps you’ve seen ...

June means warm nights, summer solstice, fireflies … and the seldom-seen giant silk moths. Giant silk moths are members of the family Saturniidae and include some of the most spectacular native large ...

Diapause is a phenomenon in which animals and insects foresee changes in the environment and actively reduce metabolism, or halt regular differentiation and development. It is an adaptation strategy ...

Collect a few eggs you might find inside the bag and place them in a terrarium with an assortment of fresh oak, cherry, maple, and hickory leaves. Now you have a chance to raise a brood of silk moth ...

A mention of silk moths may conjure up images of China where, for millennia, fibers teased from cocoons of domesticated silk moths (Bombyx mori) have been used to manufacture silk, and the producers, ...

"In memory of Rudolf E.J. Lampe 12.04.1933-12.07.2011, one of the most outstanding saturniid breeders of recent decades = In Erinnerung an Rudolf E.J. Lampe 12.04.1933-12.07.2011, einen der ...

Some of the giant silk moths of North America are taking a beating because an early 20th-century attempt to control another insect went bad, researchers in Massachusetts suggest. Cecropia moths, with ...