Skipper butterfly larvae live inside small rooms made by rolling up leaves. When they defecate, they do not store it inside ...

Animals have long been one of the primary sources of inspiration for robotics researchers. This is because they rely on ...

Western tent caterpillars might not be on your mind every year, but during their peak outbreaks, they're impossible to ignore—hairy larvae wriggling across roads and swarms of caterpillars climbing ...

There's nothing quite like the wildlife that flocks to your garden during the warmer months of the year. Those melodic songbirds, the mischievous squirrels, and the creepy-crawly visitors that you may ...

As they cling to leaf tips, newborn warty birch caterpillars produce vibrations that can ward off invaders approaching their millimeter-size domain. By Becky Ferreira When territorial animals are ...

As students scurried around the edges of their Monarch Waystation garden after school earlier this week, several seemed to ...

Research from the University of Warwick has revealed that butterfly caterpillars use sophisticated rhythmic signals to communicate with ants, helping them gain protection, food, and access to ant ...

Biologists deposited caterpillars of the rare frosted elfin butterfly on its host plant, the sundial lupine, in north Florida. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

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Texas' state insect, the monarch butterfly, is making its way from Canada to Mexico - and you may be just in time to see it ...