In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the ...

“We reared them in the lab, and the students all thought they were the cutest things in the world,” LoPresti says. “Had to be sternly told not to touch them because of how much they sting, because ...

The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...

Learn what an American dagger moth and caterpillar looks like. Also find out which host plants these moths need.

The invasive spongy moth, a destroyer of northeastern forests, has a natural foe in a Japanese fungus that needs certain ...

A tussock moth caterpillar is ... the ecosystem," Dale said. The caterpillars look to be everywhere of what Dale calls ballooning. He said after a caterpillar hatches and feeds a little bit in the ...

kurstaki, or Btk, a naturally occurring soil bacteria that kills spongy moth caterpillars feeding on canopy foliage. Btk is nontoxic to people, bees, pets and other animals. “Having to cancel ...

Btk is an insecticide that kills spongy moth caterpillars and is used on high-risk, dense populations. MDA said there is a short window of time in the spring where Btk is effective, due to the ...

Here’s who’s likely to get wet OVIEDO, Fla. – You have likely seen Tussock moth caterpillars around your home or at local parks in the past few weeks. These hairy insects can give you a rash ...

It's that time of the year again: stinging caterpillar season. Furry buck moth caterpillars, armed with hollow spines attached to their venom sac, are slowly emerging throughout the state.