Shaikh Zain ud-Din’s Brahminy Starling with Two Antheraea Moths, Caterpillar, and Cocoon on an Indian Jujube Tree was originally part of an album commissioned by his British patrons.

If butterflies are the beauty queens of the insect world, moths are their drab and pesky cousins—or so you may have thought. It’s true that most moths are nocturnal, so you’re more likely to ...

Pictured above is Ignacio Castellanos’s image of a male Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus) in an oak forest in Huasca, Mexico. These moths measure more than 15 centimetres from wing tip to ...

Caterpillar of a Polyphemus silk moth, Antheraea polyphemus. This caterpillar was reared and photographed by Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas. "Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can ...

Joseph James Bowden, an arthropod ecologist from eastern Canada — a researcher mostly working with Arctic insects and spiders — identified it as an Antheraea polyphemus, commonly known as the ...

This article presents the development of a new bioinspired antenna based on the structural characteristics of the antennae of the Antheraea Polyphemus moth. The bioinspired parameters of the proposed ...

For this reason, it is popular among Buddhist monks. From the moth genus Antheraea, this is a wild silk that lives in the forests of north India. Other names include tussah, tushar, tassar, tussore, ...

The answer to last week’s mystery is polyphemus moth cocoon, Antheraea polyphemus. The polyphemus is named after the giant one-eyed monster, Cyclops, of Homer’s Odyssey, for the big false eyespot on ...

Known as one of the largest and most beautiful moths in North America, the polyphemus moth can be found throughout most of the country. It’s named after Polyphemus, the cyclops from Greek ...

The Fall color can be hit or miss in North Carolina, but this year, we have had a beautiful mosaic of reds, yellows, oranges and browns in Lee County, North ...