Butterflies are fragile and vulnerable to predation by all kinds of critters, from birds and reptiles to spiders and other ...

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Some of the state's smallest residents carry chemical weapons, turning a walk through the woods or a day in the backyard into ... can be black, gray, brown, or brightly striped in yellow or ...

If you commute regularly, you’ve seen them countless times– those alternating black and yellow stripes running along road dividers. They appear so frequently that most of us no longer notice them.

Leafminers burrow into the leaves and feed ... Box tree moth caterpillars have green and yellow bodies with white, yellow and black stripes. They feed exclusively on boxwoods.

Seeing these fuzzy brown-and-black caterpillars crawling ... emerge as a tiger moth. As yellow waves of goldenrod wane, Minnesota roadsides and meadows are turning light purple with smooth blue ...

I ended up with about three dozen caterpillars ... develop from tiny black wiggling things 1/3 the size of a grain of rice, go through all five instar stages, form into chrysalises, and then emerge ...

When fully grown, they’re around two-and-a-half to three inches long and somewhat variable in color, though primarily either dark or pale with a black stripe or dots down the middle of the back.

and they are sadly dying out. The caterpillar, with alternating yellow, black, and white stripes as well as pronounced black antennae, will soon turn into the beloved monarch butterfly. The insect's ...

Inspect decks, outdoor furniture, fences and trees Scrape egg masses into a bucket of soapy water or burn or bury them Use a broom to sweep caterpillars into a bucket of soapy water, letting them ...