In the iconic Eric Carle book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a caterpillar happens ... for metamorphosis nears and the supply of milkweed leaves dwindles, new research suggests monarch caterpillars ...

Scientists say they have figured out how a very clever virus outwits a very hungry caterpillar ... And that liquefies the caterpillar, and then it can rain virus down on the leaves below." ...

They have evolved so that their pupa skin looks like a leaf or a twig, allowing them to hide in plain sight, cocoon-less. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a great book—and Carle is a wonderful man ...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold more than 40 million ... finds fulfilment in a plain green leaf, and is transformed. Carle knew that the world is a complex and challenging place.

Four days later a minuscule caterpillar, also called the larva, emerges, already voraciously hungry. Its first meal is its ...

I went outside to get more leaves, and when I came back maybe 15 minutes later, big caterpillar was sitting ... They are very hungry, especially after the 3rd instar, so if food is scarce they ...

You may have come across this gluttonous beast in kindergarten: the hungry, hungry caterpillar ... while eating nothing but leaves. In order to digest plants better, caterpillars produce a ...

What it eats: Flies, weevils, bark beetles, ants or any arthropod caught in a spider's web Why it's awesome: The bone collector is not just a very hungry caterpillar — it has an appetite for flesh.

A piece of reflective tape (on leaf at upper right) helps record the vibrations this cabbage butterfly caterpillar makes when chomping on an Arabidopsis plant. Appel and Cocroft predict that ...