“I am studying venomous caterpillars because they are the most exciting area I’ve ever come across,” says Andrew Walker of the University of Queensland in Australia, who authored a recent ...

Languages: English, Spanish Deep in the subtropical rainforests of eastern Australia lives a rare caterpillar with a remarkable skull-like marking on its body that it brandishes to scare off ...

Scientists have discovered proteins in the caterpillars' venom that fold up ... of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience in Australia, told Live Science. "The pain is long-lasting ...

Definitely," says Andrew Walker, an evolutionary biologist and biochemist at the University of Queensland, Australia. "But there's a lot of foundational work to do first." Caterpillars are the ...

Scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia decided to find out. The team revealed that the venom of asp caterpillars, also known as puss caterpillars, contains a special protein that ...

[The caterpillar’s gland] appears to have evolved just to feed and appease the ants,” said Yeates. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Sign ...

Similarly, Cordyceps gunnii attacks caterpillars such as large "ghost" caterpillars in Australia. Unlike the ant-infecting ...

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This volunteer tagging programme enabled many aspects of the monarch’s ecology in Australia to be documented, but it was discontinued a few years ago. Moths and Butterflies Australasia now hosts ...

Patrick Doheny of Australia–by way of Ireland–is the winner of the Caterpillar Global Operator Challenge! Doheny competed all day on Tuesday, March 14 in a battle for the top operator prize ...