You will come across many caterpillars in your garden. Knowing a little about the species and their feeding habits will help you make good decisions about whether to try to control or simply tolerate ...

As a caterpillar, the invasive spongy moth consumes as much leaf tissue as it can, as fast as it can, threatening the lives of whole forests across the upper Midwest. But Illinois continues to stand ...

An invasive caterpillar species is posing a serious threat to a cherished native moth, even though the two never directly compete for food, according to new research from ecologists at the University ...

During our long growing season, I get calls about caterpillars in trees and what to do about them. Caterpillars, the larvae of moths and butterflies, use tree leaves as a source of food. In turn, many ...

For a century, scientists have watched European gypsy moth caterpillars infected with a virus use their last strength to do something that a healthy gypsy moth caterpillar would never do in daylight ...

A rare Hyposmocoma caterpillar, nicknamed the "bone collector," discovered in Oʻahu, Hawaii, uses dead insect parts to disguise itself on spider webs The newly identified species is carnivorous and ...