In North America, five families of moths have caterpillars that can deliver painful stings. Find out which ones in this article.

What if there was a virus that could not only kill you, but actually compel you to go out and infect as many of your friends as possible? Such a virus exists — in caterpillars at least — and now a ...

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 ...

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Does a Parsley Caterpillar Become a Butterfly? Yes! The caterpillar most frequently found on parsley, dill, fennel, and related plants are the larval forms of the black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) ...

Scientific discovery takes patience, determination, focus and perseverance. And sometimes, it also takes 2,879 bright-green, Plasticine caterpillars. An international team of researchers attached ...