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

The findings about the rare bone collector caterpillar, a newly discovered species native to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

Insecticide targeting a destructive caterpillar is set to be sprayed this spring on 16 State Game Lands across Pennsylvania. The larvae of the spongy moth, if untreated, can cause severe defoliation ...

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The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...

A tussock moth caterpillar is found crawling on one of the flyers Carstens, Garcia and Toliuszis made. Tussock moth caterpillars are native to Florida and the southeastern United States and feed on ...

On the bus, in the trees, on the side and top of railings: Caterpillars have taken over Alachua County. Tussock moth caterpillars are native to Florida and the southeastern United States and feed ...

These fuzzy, little creatures aren't as cuddly as they look. They're called tussock moth caterpillars, and they'll likely leave you with a painful, stringing rash. Clearwater Parks & Recreation ...

kurstaki) treatment which slows the spread of spongy moth caterpillars in high-risk dense populations. There’s only a short window of time that the treatment is effective with Anoka, Carlton ...

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 ...

Female spongy moths will lay anywhere between 500 and 1,000 eggs at a time, causing major booms in caterpillars that can quickly eat their way through wide swaths of a forest’s canopy.