One of the best-loved sights outside is a brightly colored butterfly. Surprisingly, the life of the showy butterfly depends on the humble, inconspicuous caterpillar that precedes it. Fritillaries, ...

Everyone loves butterflies! Understanding the life cycle of butterflies is the first step to attracting these pollinators in your garden. The key is to provide food and protection for every stage of ...

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful insects. There are also many beautiful moths. They have three main body regions ...

James Stewart, a lab manager at the University of Maine, and graduate student Emma Irvine collect nests of browntail moth caterpillar pupae from an oak tree on the UMaine campus in Orono on June 26.

Caterpillars of various types are common pests in vegetable gardens, flower beds, trees, shrubs and even lawns all through summer. I’ve been getting an unusually large number of questions about ...

As a caterpillar, a grass skipper butterfly is an architect. It builds its home by weaving skeins of silk, which the caterpillar uses to fold shut a blade of grass. After growing up inside this “grass ...

Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nancy Hine, a legal secretary for a San Francisco law firm for 35 years, has had her eyes glued to “Big Guy,” her last caterpillar that took up residence in ...