Michael Singer at Wesleyan University discovered that, when healthy, tiger moth larvae, also known as woolly bear caterpillars, focus their diet on nutrient-rich food, but switch to eating plants with ...

The larvae of carpet beetles are called woolly bears because of their bodies being covered in hairs. Thelarva has unevenly coloured tergites (the plates on its back covering its body segments); the ...

Wasps and flies inject their own eggs into a caterpillar's body for growing larvae to feed off its internal organs. But the woolly bear caterpillar (Grammia incorrupta) is one of the only recorded ...

The woolly bear caterpillar, also known as the fuzzy bear caterpillar or the woolly worm, has fuzzy bristles that are black ...