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

The caterpillars are small enough to fit between the top and bottom leaf layers, and so they eat their way through the leaf’s middle, creating characteristic meandering tunnels. They do not ...

After eating a leaf, big poplar sphinx caterpillars clip the stalk and let it fall, perhaps to hide from predators. The lace-capped caterpillar is a leaf-edge mimic, using its own body to fill in ...

To find out, I turned to the experts. Tussock moth caterpillars eat the leaves of a wide variety of trees and shrubs. And they themselves can make a hairy snack for other wildlife (Credit ...

Its common English name is derived from the caterpillar's eating habits. The caterpillars eat eucalyptus leaves gregariously, with multiple individuals on the same leaf. They eat through both the ...

After eating the leaf down to the veins, the caterpillar will use the vein as a bridge to another leaf. At the end of this eating frenzy, the caterpillar forms a cocoon in which they pupate into ...

"You walk through the forest and you hear the sounds of millions of those caterpillars eating the leaves and … it's disastrous when you see it," said Dion, who in addition to his volunteer role ...

Mech said there was some evidence that caterpillars avoid eating leaves from trees treated with BTK, a biological, environmentally-friendly insecticide. If they avoid eating the leaves ...

When eggs hatch, the larvae begin eating immediately ... both sides of the leaves. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is ineffective against sawfly larvae since they are not caterpillars.