A recent study of declining butterfly populations published in the journal Science made headlines across the country when it ...

COLUMN. Smaller than a grain of rice, the 'Falcaria bilineata' caterpillar uses undetectable vibratory strategies to defend ...

Yack, who first encountered the tiny creatures in 2008, said: "We had noticed that tiny warty birch caterpillars produced vibrations." She also noted that they reside in solitude on birch leaves ...

At just 1–2mm long, newborn warty birch caterpillars (Falcaria bilineata) are minute, but even though they are tiny they defend the world’s smallest territory: the tip of a birch leaf. They scrape and ...

A caterpillar eats out the center of a leaf. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...

Buck moth caterpillars are back, some with a vengeance. How will this year's population stack up to last year? Here's what to ...

It looks like bird droppings on a leaf, but don't be fooled: it's a caterpillar in disguise. This seemingly innocent creature causes devastation in some agricultural communities, eating young citrus ...

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ROB PEREZ enters a patch of milkweed and finds CARTER THE CATERPILLAR on a half-eaten leaf. Carter is a medium-sized monarch caterpillar with black, white, and yellow stripes. Carter continuously eats ...