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 ...

One man is on a mission to bring Australia’s second-largest moth back to Darwin. The atlas moth, a true marvel and emblematic species of the Northern Territory, remains a rare sight known only to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Japanese silk moth (Antheraea yamamai) is known for producing rare and expensive tussar silk, but it's an arresting species due to its appearance as well. It has large, fernlike antennae and ...

While nature lovers are fascinated by the upcoming, once-in-a-generation emergence of cicada broods, attention is also turning to a far more dangerous bug — the spongy moth. The destabilizing ...

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 ...