This is the time of year when tent caterpillars make their presence known; emerging from eggs tha...  ...eggs that have overwintered on tree branches, the caterpillars ' first task in the spring is to create a tent. ...  ...e elaborate solar energy stuctures that allow the caterpill...

If cemeteries in general give you the chills this...  ...ce is really going to freak you out. Web spinning caterpillars have taken over a cemetery in the United Kingdom....  ...e bird cherry tree ermine moths.  These types of caterpillars form communal webs.  They later turn into white...  ...She said: ‘Ther...

Who ever says that scientists are boring? Here's a...  ...e boring? Here's an interesting finding about how caterpillar evolved a unique method of warning each other of...  ...nique method of warning each other of danger:Some caterpillars drag their back ends along leaves to ward off int...  ...ues compared the...

Underwater caterpillars don't turn into butterflies or moths, because the...  ...hey are dead, right? Not so for twelve species of caterpillars that live in Hawaii. Evolutionary biologist Danie...  ...e couldn't believe it the first time he spotted a caterpillar living underwate...

C is for this crazy mad cow-terpillar cupcake cake...  ...nally the kids and I were going to make a regular caterpillar cake, but my daughter kind of came up with this i...

There's a caterpillar in this photograph taken in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysi...

Amateur photographer Desmond Cannon of Brae, Ire...  ...smond Cannon of Brae, Ireland caught these sawfly caterpillars eating through a leaf while sticking their rear e...  ...ictures of the tiny (less than a centimeter long) caterpillars as they ate through the leaf while holding their...  ...care off predators...

Caterpillars are more vulnerable to predators than their later...  ...its “face” quite large and scary. Normally, a caterpillar ’s face is much smaller and not on the second ab...

Every week, Christie Lynn of Observation of a Ne...  ...orror) movie. This particular one is about a caterpillar being eaten from inside after being infected with...  ...omerata, like many other parasitic wasps, targets caterpillars to host its hungry little wasps-to-be. When it fi...

Caterpillars of the Great Peacock Moth (Saturnia pyri) are mak...  ...recent study has shown that these giant silkmoth caterpillars are advertising acoustically that they are unpall...  ...gy. When disturbed by a would be attacker the caterpillars stridulate by rubbing their...