they particularly love the leaves and will largely focus their attention on the foliage rather than the flowerheads or seeds.

The periodical mass emergence of cicadas in eastern North American forests can “rewire” forest food webs and initiate a cascade of ecological impacts that propagates throughout the food chain ...

It was a bad year for gardeners with box plants as a caterpillar that strips them of leaves topped the Royal Horticultural Society's annual pests and diseases list. The box tree caterpillar ...

Leaf-feeding insects are a part of life in the Peninsula's rich horticultural landscape. The region's mild Mediterranean ...

Officials and scientists from Karnataka and Kerala came together at CPCRI, Kasargod to chalk out an action plan for management of coconut black headed leaf eating caterpillar outbreak in parts of ...

Also known as cankerworms or geometer caterpillars, the critters' tiny ... But the main difference is how and when they morph from the leaf-eating stage into adults. The spring cankerworm spends ...

Having witnessed the outbreak of coconut black-headed leaf eating caterpillar affecting coconut palms in Mangaluru in the State and Kasaragod district in Kerala, agencies concerned have responded ...