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 ...

"How do caterpillars make cocoons?" asked a preschooler at the Libertyville Recreation Department Kinder Korner Preschool program. Moths and butterflies are similar in many ways, but their path to ...

FOSTER – State forester Alana Russell pulled off Hartford Pike on a gray afternoon this month to investigate a holiday intruder’s fluttering courtship occurring in the adjacent woods. That the air ...

Federal customs officers were sifting through luggage at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last fall when they stumbled upon seed pods with little holes in them in one passenger’s bag. Inside, they found ...