You've probably seen monarch butterflies, and maybe monarch caterpillars, but there's a lot to learn about the monarch life cycle stages.

McKay also highlighted native plants and their role in ecosystems. Native plants and animals rely on each other, and when one ...

Bouncing bugs Move over Mexican jumping beans - a remarkable caterpillar of a Southeast Asian moth has evolved a unique method of travelling. The Southeast Asian thyridid moth (Calindoea trifascialis) ...

One of the best-loved sights outside is a brightly colored butterfly. Surprisingly, the life of the showy butterfly depends on the humble, inconspicuous caterpillar that precedes it. Fritillaries, ...

For the first time ever, scientists have sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur during ...

Last summer, Aleigh Underhill was checking on her back garden in Blackburn Hamlet when she noticed a tiny black and yellow caterpillar nibbling a dill leaf. "My first reaction was, 'Oh no, something ...

I was beneath an ash tree at the University of Colorado, examining leaves for emerald ash borers, when I found a leaf with a dense cluster of more than 50 strange creatures. I had no idea what these ...