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 ...

Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

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 ...

Mimicry is one of the most interesting forms of defense in nature. Sometimes an innocent and harmless insect can look like a terrifying snake, scaring off predators. One example is the hawk moth ...

An insect that can be hazardous to human health is spreading across southeast England. Caterpillars of the oak processionary moth are becoming more common as rising temperatures help them to spread to ...

A species of invasive moth caterpillars is stripping trees bare and raining down feces from the canopy across much of southern Ontario and Quebec, amid a record outbreak. Here's why their population ...