Monarch butterflies depend on the milkweed plant as the only food source for its larvae, but the monarchs benefit from the ...

[In Photos: Animals That Mimic Plants ... In the first test, the scientists applied frass extract to the leaves of some corn plants and compared caterpillar growth of those that fed on treated ...

After eating a leaf ... on their host plant. These raised on blue vervain aren’t a perfect match but can fool from afar. While some may view the common looper caterpillar as nothing more ...

The cabbage moth caterpillar is a common pest in Ireland, and is responsible for severe crop damage - but there is one simple ...

This caterpillar printer ... to eat messages into wayward leaves by leaving a trail of honey in the shape of whatever. Leave a honey trail, as this picture shows, of the words “Love Me ...

A University of Missouri study is the first work to report that plants can recognize the sound of a predator through the vibrations of their leaves. To learn more, Robert Siegel speaks with Heidi ...

Eat all you want and still lose weight sounds like a line from a late night infomercial, but it's exactly how some plants are getting away with murder. After a caterpillar starts chomping on their ...

A common substance produced by fungi and other organisms has been found in the saliva of caterpillars and helps to suppress the toxins that plants ... holes in leaves to mimic caterpillar feeding ...

Silke Allmann and Ian Baldwin from the Max Planck Institute studied a particular group of SOS chemicals called ‘green leaf volatiles ... without any caterpillar, the plant gave off the ...