Butterflies are whimsical insects that just about everyone loves, even your Aunt Tilda, who loses her mind whenever she sees ...

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

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

Biologists waited until the caterpillars were old enough that they were nearly ready to begin metamorphosis, then they placed them onto the plant to eat and shortly after choose a leaf to build a ...

The few species of meat-eating caterpillars "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," said study author Dan Rubinoff, an entomologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "No other ...

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 ...

The tomato hornworm is a very large caterpillar that can defoliate your tomato plants and even eat the green fruit. They become a sphinx or hawk moth. Photo: Alice Cason As Eric Carle once wrote, ...

The name 'caterpillar' comes from the old French word chatepelose, which means 'hairy cat'. Caterpillars are the eating and growing stage of butterflies and moths. Many are green but others are ...

GRAND FALLS, N.B. - New Brunswick’s maple syrup industry is considering using an insecticide to kill off forest tent caterpillars that have chewed through a portion of the province’s ...