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What you see here isn’t an animation from Pixar’s A Bug’s Life. This is a close-up of a swallowtail caterpillar, taken by ...
Buck moth caterpillars are back, some with a vengeance. How will this year's population stack up to last year? Here's what to ...
As they cling to leaf tips, newborn warty birch caterpillars produce vibrations that can ward off invaders approaching their ...
You have likely seen tussock moth caterpillars around your home or at local parks in the past few weeks. These hairy insects ...
Scientists found that the minuscule insects scrape and thump their leaf-tip homes to produce vibrations that warn off ...
Newborn caterpillars protect leaf-tip homes with buzzing and drumming signals. These vibrations scare off rivals and help avoid fights.
The caterpillars will only be around through the first few weeks of April before they cocoon and transition into moths.
The eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma Americanum, is native to North America. Their populations naturally fluctuate from ...
You’d never guess it, but caterpillars have more body muscles than you think. Each insect has 4,000 muscles that it uses to move, with each segment having 70 muscles alone. When a caterpillar ...