Feeding should be started off with 50-day-old shoots harvested at the height of three feet in the cooler hours of the morning. 60-day-old shoots should be fed to fifth stage worms. Thank you for ...

In most of the insect orders, you will find creatures that can make silk. The most well-known of these is probably the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori). However, the list also includes ants, bees, ...

Here, the caterpillars rest and weave their cocoons for three days, until they fully empty their silk glands and enter pupation. Now it's time for the weaving process. To produce 1 kilogram of ...

Larvae of other ant species spin individual protective cocoons of silk. Oecophyllalarvae donate their silk to the colony. Straddling the leaf seam, an adult uses its antennae to tap the head of ...