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.

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 ...

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 ...