The avant-garde musical presentation examines the intersecting lives of moths and humans.

In the summer of 2018, Marco Lo Presti worked on making a strong underwater adhesive using silk fibroin, which can be isolated from silk moth cocoons. While cleaning his glassware with acetone in ...

Wreath 1: (inside to outside) sweet gum balls, alder cones, Cecropia moth cocoons, shagbark hickory nuts, white oak acorn caps, red pine cones, common milkweed pods (Tami Gingrich photo ...

The silk adhesive was created from moth cocoons which are boiled in solution and broken down into proteins called fibroin. The silk fibroin solution can be extruded through needles to form a ...

Bagworm moth larvae expel the versatile thread from their mouths ... Unlike sericulture, in which cocoons are boiled with the silkworms still inside, bagworms are not killed in the process of ...

Bagworm moth larvae expel the versatile thread from their mouths ... Unlike sericulture in which cocoons are boiled with silkworms still inside, bagworms are not killed in the process of harvesting ...

The sticky fibers, created at the Tufts University Silklab, are derived from silk moth cocoons boiled in a solution and broken down into fibroin proteins. The resulting silk fibroin solution can be ...