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

Spider webs combine complex principles of physics and chemistry to create one of the world's most remarkable substances. We explain how.

Spider silk is made of proteins and specifically, it contains large amounts of the amino acids ... However, the list also includes ants, bees, butterflies, moths, and fly larvae.

With the arrival of the warmer season, the characteristic lines of pine processionary caterpillars (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) ...

The African armyworm's counterpart, the Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a moth native to the Americas that can cause ... The name "armyworm" comes from the behaviour of large groups of ...

Washing cashmere properly requires a sink or basin large enough to fully submerge the ... in our guide to hand-washing cashmere. Silk (if it’s high-quality or lightly colored) Believe it or ...

These large defoliation events from spongy moths can harm and even kill trees ... this process that's called ‘ballooning’ where they will send up a line of silk and they're so tiny that a strong gust ...

Victoria and Albert Museum, London Most flock patterns were copied from textiles and imitated the appearance of cut velvets and silk ... repelling moths due to turpentine used in the adhesive. A ...

London, have discovered that a long-overlooked moth specimen in the Museum's collection was in fact collected by explorer and ...