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I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

Butterflies tend to feel like the softest part of nature. They drift through gardens, land lightly on flowers and seem almost effortless in the way they move. It is easy to think of them as simple, ...

A Jeremy Hemberger, department of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Caterpillars start out as tiny creatures. In the beginning they eat lots of food — just like the book “The Very ...