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Wondering if those eggs or caterpillars on your herb plants are pests or beneficial wildlife? Identify a parsley caterpillar ...
Researchers in Hawaiʻi have described an unusual species of carnivorous caterpillar that scavenges in spiderwebs while wearing cast-off bits of the spider’s prey. Nicknamed the “bone collector,” the ...
More significant black cutworm moth flights are being reported in parts of the Upper Midwest. Bruce Potter with the Minnesota ...
Have you ever seen a swallowtail butterfly? Swallowtail butterflies get their name from their long tail. It extends from ...
Leave the blooming parsley in the garden, however. The tiny flowers provide food for and attract parasitic wasps into the ...
A new butterfly species, Satyrium curiosolus, has been discovered in Alberta. Isolated for millennia, it shows unique traits ...
It’s literally because they were curious about how it survived in isolation.) They announced the discovery in an April 2025 ...
Biologists waded through knee-high vegetation in Florida until they reached a spot where purple flowers grew in cone-like formations — then the team got out the glow-in-the dark caterpillars. The ...
A new conservation project in north Oxfordshire could revolutionise the way moths and butterflies are studied.
Don’t touch that! What to know about the itchy invasion of tussock moth caterpillars that are now back in the Lowcountry.