The domestication of the silk moth is one of the oldest examples of insect domestication ... The story involves an unlucky ...

Three years ago Dr. Williams extracted an oil from the abdomens of silkworm moths, injected it into silkworm pupae. It stopped their normal development. The pupae never became adult moths ...

Bio-hybrid drone uses silkworm moth antennae to navigate using smell Shinshu University Funder Heisei Memorial Research Grant, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JKA Foundation, Casio ...

The innovative design involves carefully extracting the antennae of silkworm moths and attaching them to electrodes on an electroantennography (EAG) sensor, a system used to measure electrical ...

Chiba University graduate school student Chihiro Fukui, left, holds a silkworm moth, while Shinshu University associate professor Daigo Terutsuki shows a scent-tracking drone, at the latter school ...

Researchers have now developed a novel bio-hybrid drone by combining robotic elements with odor-sensing antennae from silkworm moths. Their innovation, which integrates the agility and precision ...

Researchers from Shinshu University and Chiba University develop a novel bio-hybrid drone using odor-sensing antennae from silkworm moths. Incorporation of an electroantennography (EAG ...