Stinging caterpillars actually aren’t stinging you and injecting venom, like a wasp would," says Eric Benson, PhD, professor ...

The moth caterpillars can defoliate a boxwood within a single season and eventually kill the shrub. Infestations are identified by yellowing leaves, small green caterpillars with black stripes ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

It turns out the hummingbird might fend off predators by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar that lives ... while females tend to sport low-key green plumage. The tropical rainforest is a dangerous ...

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

Newly released data has shown that 2024 was one of the worst years on record for butterflies in the UK and, for the first ...

The story goes like this: moths laying eggs in hanging weblike nests that drop to the ground when they have served their ...

Treated plants fight pests without the need for toxic pesticides, oozing a "larval toffee" that stunts tomato pinworms’ growth and attracts predators.

Green Party MP Charalambos Theopemptou told the Cyprus Mail. He pointed out that a pine tree could die due to extensive defoliation by the caterpillars, to the point that it could not rejuvenate ...