Outside, the storm was letting up. The rain grew softer against the restaurant window until it stopped. Red sauce pooled at the bottom of Quique’s plate like warm blood ready to pump through a ...

silkworm cocoons amid tangled strands of basketry, and a close-up of a newly emerged, alien-looking silk moth. A video shot of a weaver at a loom in a silk workshop in Varanasi, India, recurs as a ...

According to Zack Lemann, the curator of animal collections for the Audubon Insectarium, buck moths are a member of the giant silkworm family ... caterpillars form a cocoon to begin their ...

It comes from the cocoons of muga moths that feed on som ... So what's happening to the muga silkworm? And why is this silk so expensive? More from So Expensive Unlike any other fabric, muga ...