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 ...

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.

According to the new study, it is the pulling or stretching action that gives spider silk the remarkable strength it is known for. “When they spin silk out of their silk gland, spiders use their ...

Scientists have discovered novel proteins in velvet worm slime that could lead to strong, recyclable bioplastics. These ...

Credit: Washington University at St. Louis Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the molecular level, aligning ...

Spiders stretch their silk when spinning their webs. Researchers knew that this was important to strengthen the silk fibres but only now has it been discovered why. A new study reveals, through ...

The velvet worm is pretty cute as invertebrate predators ... is very unusual and faster than the better-known silk spinning by spiders. Prof. Ali Miserez “It is stored as a viscous liquid ...

We could examine how drawing relates to the silk’s mechanical properties.” Northwestern Jacob Graham, the study’s first author, said, “Spiders perform the drawing process naturally; when they spin ...

This author’s recommendation is that given our cruelty to worm and especially spider, we should go back to the plentiful wild silk worm for its more normal production of silk.

Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...