Gunnia Devi believes she will be spared from leprosy, at least in her next life, because she now earns her living by producing "nonviolent" silk. Devi, 42, and scores of others who have been cured of ...
June means warm nights, summer solstice, fireflies … and the seldom-seen giant silk moths. Giant silk moths are members of the family Saturniidae and include some of the most spectacular native large ...
A mention of silk moths may conjure up images of China where, for millennia, fibers teased from cocoons of domesticated silk moths (Bombyx mori) have been used to manufacture silk, and the producers, ...