A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Ella shared that her yard was infested with caterpillars and documented the entire experience, and I can feel them crawling ...

Popular dishes include buttery bamboo caterpillars; giant water bugs ... Even in Thailand, the biggest challenge for the edible insect industry is people overcoming the “gross” factor of ...

which are like a silky sleeping bag that covers the insect. This, on the other hand, is what's called a chrysalis. It's not a sack or a pouch; it's actually the caterpillar's own body. When it's ...

But one species of caterpillar is thought to be the first recorded self-medicating insect. Becoming an adult butterfly or moth is a high-stakes obstacle course. One of the biggest threats a ...

The story goes like this: moths laying eggs in hanging weblike nests that drop to the ground when they have served their purpose, larva hatching out and eating pines trees to death and toxic ...

The moth, referred to as the “puss caterpillar” in its larval stage, is scheduled to arrive in North Carolina in April, LoPresti said. Here’s what to know about the furry insects.

“We found insect and plant CHCs to be quite different from each other. In caterpillars, they signal food for ants. The caterpillars in our experiment offered a sweet secretion that enabled them ...