The life of a growing caterpillar isn't easy - diseases, parasites and infectious bacteria lurk at every turn. But one species of caterpillar is thought to be the first recorded self-medicating insect ...

Unless you've chopped all the trees on your overgrown farm, it's the best place to find some Caterpillars or other insects.

that act as toxins to protect the trees from many insects." Because the spongy moth caterpillar ends its leaf-eating spree relatively early in the aspen tree's growing season, the defoliated trees ...

Becoming a butterfly is a dangerous game, and it's easy for caterpillars to fall victim to some very unsavoury characters along the way. As well as facing threats from hungry birds and insects, ...

DNR The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will soon be flying an aerial detection survey across the state to pinpoint where defoliation from forest tent caterpillars has ...

in the populations of spiders and insects, including caterpillars, in the reserve’s tropical dry forest. They believe these crashes are direct outcomes of climate change. Vertiginous collapses ...

But these caterpillars will not turn into butterflies ... Dr Roy Anderson, an insect specialist at the Ulster Museum, said 2023 has been a particularly severe year for ash sawfly defoliation.