The researchers found that caterpillars perceive both, though they had a 10- to 100-fold greater reaction to airborne sound compared to the surface vibrations that they sensed through their feet.

The Rosy Maple Moth is a pretty pink and yellow color, making it look like something out of the "Barbie" movie.

Pacific Grove, California, is known as Butterfly Town, and it is a vital area for monarch butterfly migration.

The animal kingdom can be even stranger than fiction. Case in point: a larva that looks more like it was made-for-TV than ...

Fishing duo Cole & Jay raise monarch butterflies from caterpillars at home.

No ears, no problem. The tobacco hornworm caterpillar, a common garden pest, can actually detect airborne sound via microscopic hairs on its body, according to a team of faculty and graduate students ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

PACIFIC GROVE — Pacific Grove is an idyllic place to go for rest and relaxation. West Coast Monarch butterflies would agree.

I’m reaching out to see what you can tell me about the buck moths that seem to have exploded in neighborhoods across New Orleans in mid-December. Is this normal, and what should I know about them? I ...

Every beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar, and caterpillars have to eat. This may surprise you, but the average caterpillar has a very restrictive diet, feeding on only a few plants, and some ...

If you’re like most well-intentioned gardeners, you might give a lot of thought to planting the “right” plants to nourish pollinators and other wildlife, with nectar, pollen, seeds and fruit. But have ...

CRAWLING ON YOUR FRONT OR BACK PORCH. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE WOOLY BEAR CATERPILLAR. DEFINITELY HAVE SEEN THEM. RUMOR HAS IT THAT THESE CATERPILLARS MAY HAVE SOMETHING UP THEIR SLEEVES IN TERMS OF ...