These furry caterpillars feed on many of the same plants as the above two species, but are very seldom numerous enough to become a pest, so control measures are seldom necessary. The adult moth is ...

Learn what an American dagger moth and caterpillar looks like. Also find out which host plants these moths need.

(WLUK) -- Wildlife officials will be spraying three state parks for invasive species in the next month ... finalized aerial spraying plans for its Spongy Moth Suppression Program, with maps ...

Not only does it fill in the gaps on the phylogeny chart he saw as a child ... Kawahara named a newly described Costa Rican moth species after his father—Beltheca oni—and later took his ...

Many moths and butterflies lay their eggs on these trees. The caterpillars eat their fill of leaves and then drop to the ...

A withering rosebud, the brevity of blossom and the one-day wonder of the mayfly: Nature’s ephemeral beauty reminds us of our own finite existence, but melancholy transience also offers moments of ...

Rita Lovell didn’t plant the yucca that stole her heart. It volunteered, showing up on its own in the dry, rocky soil just ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...

The Mosura fentoni, or "sea moth," is a newly discovered type of arthropod that would have lived in the deep sea more than 500 million years ago.

Carnivorous caterpillars are exceedingly rare; they make up less than 0.13% of the moth and butterfly species around the globe. But these are even rarer still. The researchers have dubbed this ...

On a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu, scientists have identified a species of carnivorous ... attacks another native moth caterpillar. | Rubinoff lab, Entomology Section ...