This is exactly what has happened with Papilio solstitius, a tiger swallowtail butterfly newly recognized as a separate ...

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that lives in spider webs, eating the bugs that get stuck - including the spider that ...

Cultural tip: Avoid overfertilizing roses with water-soluble ... on their preferred host plants. The hatched caterpillars (larvae) continually eat and can devour many times their weight.

They're not just meat-eating but also cannibalistic. If they come across another, smaller caterpillar they will happily consume it. "That's why we never find more than one caterpillar per web ...

There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," said study author Dan Rubinoff with the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Scientists think the case ...

Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, rare and bizarre species of carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars. After hatching, the tiny insects live almost their entire lives in the web of a ...