A farmer works on silkworm cocoons at Nagaa Awni village in Egypt in September. [Photo/Xinhua] BEHEIRA, Egypt — Nagaa Awni, located in Beheira governorate about 200 kilometers from the Egyptian ...

Researchers explore how the domesticated flightless silkworm moth (Bombyx mori), a prominent insect model in olfactory research, uses wing flapping to manipulate airflow, enhancing their ability to ...

ORAL administration of antibiotics such as penicillin, streptomycin, aureomycin and chloromycetin is known to stimulate the growth of mammals 1 and birds 2. So far, no analogous work appears to ...

The substantial increase in both the volume and scale of silkworm-based spider silk manufacturing positions the company to ...

How silkworms spin silk with excellent properties, i.e., the spinning mechanism of the silkworm, has become one of the most ...

The silkworm moth (Bombyx mori) is an insect that no longer flies due to domestication. The males use their antennae to detect pheromones emitted by ...

When you think about the first creatures to explore space, fruit flies probably don’t spring to mind."The Insect Epiphany: ...

Please verify your email address. These are the remnants of silkworm larvae, stricken by the white blight and left to wither. Unfulfilled in their transformation, they bear their natural pallor.

IN the course of biochemical studies 1 on the embryonic diapause of the Bombyx silkworm, it has been shown that the glycogen content of the egg decreases markedly at the onset of diapause and ...

As a child, the French design artist Marlène Huissoud helped her beekeeping parents tend hives in the Alps. As an adult, she ...