The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn't just help the spider release the silk, it's also a crucial step in ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

From these eggs will hatch tiny silkworms, caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori, which will then set to chomping down on mulberry leaves and preparing themselves for the demanding ...

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn’t just help the spider release the silk, it’s also a crucial step in ...

Sheet-building and net-casting spiders make their webs from cribellate silk. It is produced by many silk glands located under a flattened spinning organ called a cribellum. The cribellum consists ...

silk-inspired materials for various applications. When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn’t just help the spider ...

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn’t just help the spider release the silk, it’s also a crucial step ...

It highlights the dedication of farmers who cultivate mulberry trees to feed silk worms, emphasizing the labor-intensive cycle from raising the worms to spinning silk from their cocoons.

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

We have unveiled a very different role of TLR proteins,” said study author Professor Ali Miserez to IFLScience.