A moment from a performance of “The Moth Project.” Credit: Marvin Zana. Before the pandemic, Peter Kiesewalter didn’t think much of moths. Like a lot of people, he’d thought of them mostly as pests.

Dozens of workers at Lappet Manufacturing in Carlisle have voted to strike over poor pay and punishing targets. The workers, who weave high-end headscarves which are sold to the Saudi Arabian ...

Legend tells us that the Chinese empress Leizu founded the cultivation of silk from caterpillars over 5,000 years ago, after a silkworm moth cocoon plummeted into her steaming teacup, unraveling ...