It is asp season in Texas. When this fuzzy caterpillar rubs or is pressed against the skin, venomous hairs stick into the ...

Hordes of fuzzy orange and black caterpillars crowd trails and fields in the leaf littered autumn months. For decades, false ...

Texas is home to more than 50 species of stinging caterpillars, such as the buck moth and hickory tussock moth, but experts ...

Spruce budworm has damaged or killed nearly a quarter of the trees in Gros Morne National Park. It's been fascinating for ...

Insects can cause significant harm to your plants, and if left unchecked, could eventually lead to their demise. But one ...

The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) confirmed the invasive spongy moth's presence in Sandpoint for the second year in a row.

The Idaho Department of Lands says the invasive spongy moth has been detected in Sandpoint for the second year in a row.

THE MONARCH IS BACK! Butterfly enthusiasts are on the lookout for monarch butterflies now through March, but need your help.

A central Iowa entomologist says there may actually be some science behind the folklore about how the thickness of a wooly bear caterpillar's stripes can help predict the severity of the winter ahead.

Christopher C. Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects, though not in the way most people imagine. As Senior ...

Lepidoptera, as they are known to scientists, are familiar creatures that are not only welcome guests in many gardens, they are also essential to certain flowering species' survival.