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, ...

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

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 ...

Discover the imperial moth, one of North America’s largest and most striking silk moths. Learn about its range, life cycle, ...

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 ...

Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillar of a fuzzy, white moth — thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to 10 city blocks long.

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 ...