This summer, discover all the nature-filled attractions you won’t want to miss, from fluttering butterflies to roaring rapids ...

This week, see zombie fungi trapped in an amber fossil, explore the sun’s hidden south pole, meet tool-using whales that ...

Butterflies come in a remarkable variety of different forms and patterns, from the orange-colored majesty of the monarch to ...

Dimapur: Two housewives from Tuophema village in Kohima district have found sustainable livelihood in Eri silkworm farming.

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their hosts.

In the North-East, eri silk pupa is consumed and in cities like Dimapur in Nagaland, it is sold at Rs 700-1,200 a kg. Consumption of silk cocoons is legal in other countries, and is a traditional ...

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Silk cocoons are an important raw material for textiles. The mixture of defective cocoons, such as thin-shelled cocoons, double-pupa cocoons, and yellow-spotted cocoons, can lead to issues during the ...

THE curious movements of jumping beans have lately attracted some attention, though to style the spasmodic jerks of the beans jumps is to court disappointment. Some “jumping cocoons ...

If you are growing Beetles, then it is important to keep the pupa separated from the larvae as the larvae may eat the pupa. Once the beetle emerges from the cocoon, you may put it in a separate beetle ...

Members of the Lepidoptera family pass through four distinct phases in their lives: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (cocoon or chrysalis) and adult. I’m often asked where the caterpillars came from.