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

Quick Take Imperial moths are large silkworm-moths with a 3 to 7 inch wingspan and leaf-like camouflage. Adults do not feed ...

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 ...

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, ...

Polyphemus moths call an hour before and after midnight, and if a female remains unmated, she will call again just before dawn. Using their large feathery antenna, male silk moths can detect ...

What you are about to see — and I'm not making this up — is a moth driving a car. That's right. A silk moth — actually, 14 different male silk moths — each, in turn, hooked up to a robotic vehicle at ...

A paper on the work is newly published online in Nature Nanotechnology. This project is headed by Michael Mayer, an associate professor in the U-M departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical ...

Bombs and explosives leave a telltale chemical trace in the air around them. To detect these tiny amounts of airborne volatile chemical explosives, alert squads at airports and elsewhere rely on the ...

What you are about to see — and I'm not making this up — is a moth driving a car. That's right. A silk moth — actually, 14 different male silk moths — each, in turn, hooked up to a robotic vehicle at ...