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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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 ...

John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...

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 ...

Traditional animal farming has fulfilled human nutritional requirements for protein, but insects may serve as an alternative for direct human consumption in the future. Researchers are working to lay ...