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 ...

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Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis as a kid -- a wriggly caterpillar molts its skin to form a tough chrysalis and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. But how exactly do chrysalises stay ...

A Jeremy Hemberger, department of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Caterpillars start out as tiny creatures. In the beginning they eat lots of food — just like the book “The Very ...

“Young female new to town seeks a high-flying guy for a good time. If interested — and I know you are — just follow the perfume trail to me, la femelle du papillon de la nuit.” This is a female moth, ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — Butterfly Pavilion has received its first shipment of live butterflies in chrysalis form from a farm in Indonesia. The Westminster zoo said it has the first butterfly farm built ...