Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly ...

Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest ...

You won't have to wait long to attract a range of pollinators to your yard with any of these rapidly-growing trees. They'll reach new heights in no time.

Many creatures make cocoons out of silk to protect themselves against predators and disease, including myriad moth and spider species from around ... protecting the body without bothering the immune ...

If you spot a moth or caterpillar-looking ... more than wreaking havoc on your life, chewing holes in both paper and plastic packages and spinning silk webs inside your containers.

Researchers at Tufts University’s Silklab have developed sticky fibers inspired by spider silk ... life example of Spider-Man’s web shooters we’ve ever seen. These fibers are made from silk ...

Legend tells us that the Chinese empress Leizu founded the cultivation of silk from caterpillars over 5,000 years ago, after a silkworm moth cocoon plummeted into her steaming teacup, unraveling ...

While working on a project to create super-strong adhesive using a silk moth protein known as fibroin, researcher Marco Lo Presti noticed a web-like material had formed in the bottom of his ...

Spider-Man is officially a step closer to existing in real life. Sure, we’re not at the ... The researchers’ sticky fibers come from silk moth cocoons, which are broken down into their fibroin ...

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, ...