I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

When you hop out of bed after a long, restful nap, you may feel like a bug emerging from its cocoon. Or is the word chrysalis more accurate? And where does pupa fit in? You may have heard these words ...

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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.

When an insect is changing inside its cocoon, and has turned to slush, is it alive? And if so, in what way is it alive? In many metamorphosing insects, the majority of the cells in the body of the ...

Explores various types of insect homes and their life cycles. It discusses how insects like moths, webworms, spittle bugs, gall wasps, beetles, ants, cicadas, ant lions, caddis fly larvae, wasps, and ...

Resin, similar to the kind shown here, is used by the newly discovered caterpillar to build its cocoon. Ned Therrien/Visuals Unlimited/Corbis One little insect in Borneo is taking home defense to a ...